Five guineas bounty. Wanted, a few notorious Jacobin scoundrels and Wanted, a few notorious Jacobin scoundrels
Description:
Title from item., Text continues: The advantages in this corps are expected to be very great, as they will have the exquisite pleasure of each others company, in the delightful Island of Elba, in the Botanybay of Tuscany., A handbill presumably issued shortly after Napoleon's abdication and exile to St. Helena in April 1814., With a woodcut illustration of a winged devil at head., and For further information, consult library staff.
An illustrated handbill describing the execution of Joseph Wall, former Governor of Goree, for unlawful execution in 1782 of Serjeant B. Armstrong. The large woodcut illustration depicts the punishment devised by Wall and shows the victim being whipped by presumably enslaved "black men" described in detail in the verses below
Description:
Caption title., Printed in two columns., Partially in verse; the short description of Wall's execution is followed by a six stanza poem, with the heading "A copy of verses on the melancholy occasion.", Publisher's advertisement following imprint: - Where may be had, price 6d. the Trial of Governor Wall, including a biographical account of his life, and the whole particulars of his execution., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Davenport, 6, George's Court, St. John's Gate, London
Subject (Name):
Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802,
Subject (Topic):
Punishment & torture, Whipping, and Enslaved people
Martin, Robert, active 1770-1838, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1837]
Call Number:
837.00.00.43
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Advertisement for the lithographers and lithographic printers R. Martin & Co, with various images of the work they undertook, including portraits, landscapes, maps, architectural and animal prints; a tablet at centre in front of the portrait of a man lettered with 'A Specimen / of / Ink Lithography, / from R. Martin's / 124 High Holborn.'; armour in foreground at right; a scroll in foreground at centre left signed 'Henry R'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text at center of image., Date from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect? Sheet trimmed with possible loss of text from lower margin. Impression at the British Museum (registration no.: 2000,U.6) is lettered below image "Designed, drawn on stone, printed & published by R. Martin & Co., lithographers, 74 St. Martin's Lane, & 26 Long Acre.", and Mounted to: 21.2 x 29.5 cm.
Caption title., "Words cannot express her worth. Time will reveal her loss"--Beneath title., First line: Britons! Oh Britons! weep ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Title from text within woodcut illustration; remainder of title from letterpress text beneath illustration., Woodcut illustration of a hot air ballloon with two flag-waving gentlemen seated in the basket. The flag to the left reads "No blanks"; the flag to the right, "All money.", Printed in red and blue ink., and Mounted to: 25 x 18 cm. With a sticker in upper left corner with blue crayon annotation "11-". For further information, consult library staff.
To William Davison, chemist, druggist, & apothecary
Description:
Date from manuscript annotation on Lewis Walpole Library copy., Engraved invoice for the pharmacist, stationer, and printer William Davison of Alnwick., and Invoice completed in manuscript to "Major Frankland, West Glanton"; numbered "231" in upper right and dated "1821 October 17" in lower left. For further information, consult library staff.
Illustrated memorial published after the death of Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales, who died after giving birth to a stillborn child in 1817. One of many similar memorials using the same illustration (an urn beneath a weeping willow) but with different verses
Description:
Title from item., Letterpress text with engraved illustration above; within a mourning border., First line of verse beneath title: Trembling I touch the plaintive chord, to speak our England’s grief ..., and "Maria" written in a contemporary hand in lower right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published by the authoress, and sold by T. Gardiner and Son, 20, Princes-street, Cavendish-square; and at No. 209, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Title from item., Letterpress text framed by a decorative border., Verso blank., Printed trade card advertising the Angel Inn at Chippenham in Wiltshire, then under the new management of John Lawes. The stagecoach "stages from Chippenham to London" are printed at the foot of the card., and For further information, consult library staff.
Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity-Schools (Society)
Published / Created:
[1827]
Call Number:
646 802 M243 v.3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
An engraved admission ticket with the St. Paul's Cathedral in a rondel in the center flanked on the left with an figure of a boy in a niche with the words "Naked & ye clothed us" below and on the right a girl, also in a niche, with the words "Ignorance & ye instructed us" below. Above the rondel is engraved in frame: Date et dabitur vobis
Description:
Title from text surrounding central image of St. Paul's Cathedral., "Designed, drawn & presented to the Society of Patrons by James Elmes, architect in College Hill, London. Steward in 1807.", Engraved text above images: 1827 West door., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First line of text: Admit one person at the West Door of the Cathedral, on Thursday the 14th of June 1827 when a sermon will be preached by the Right Revd. Father in God Charles James, Lord Bishop of Chester, before His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, President ... [list of vice presidents and stewards]., With the engraved signatures of Chas. Stable and Wm. Child above imprint statement., Ticket numbered "3512" in ink within circle between the engraved signatures above imprint., Mounted to 27.1 x 21 cm., and Mounted before page 127 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
Society of Patrons and Norris & Son, sc. Moorfields
