Caption title., Date inferred from manuscript note on verso., Printed advertisement, issued by Mary Noble, for her servant registry office in London. Noble was proprietor of the business between 1781 and 1785, when the City of London Land Tax records lists her as paying an annual rent and Land Tax for her premises., First line: The proprietor begs leave to inform those Ladies and Gentlemen who please to honour her with their commands ..., Signed: M. Noble., and For further information, consult library staff.
Admit [blank] and company to a sight of the garden
Description:
Title from text on item., Text continues: ... Is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thrusdays only, from eight in the morning 'till six in the evening. Being intended to be kept up as well for the advantage of the public, as to gratify their curiosity, it is hoped no one will pluck or destroy any of the trees, shrubs or plants, contained in it., The second sheet, is an entrance ticket, formerly joined with the description of the garden, contains a space in the printed text intended to be completed in manuscript with the ticket holder's name, and space at the bottom for the authorizing signature., Also with an advertisement printed for The London Botanic Garden printed on the verso of No. 16 of The Botanical Magazine; or , Flower-Garden displayed., The ticket has been completed in mss. with guest's name 'Mr. Wigham' and the signature of 'Will. Bridgman’ at the bottom., and With a portion of letter quoting from James Edward's Tabulae Distantiae (1789).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Curtis, William, 1746-1799. and London Botanic Garden (Lambeth, London, England)
"Trade card of Samuel Knights, printseller and frame maker, at 6 Change Alley, opposite Garraways Coffee House; view of the shop from the street, with many prints on the window and inside the shop, open door to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
City of London
Description:
Title from item., Approximate date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.46., Text at bottom: N.B. Frontage 11 feet - depth - 8 feet., Mounted to 27.1 x 20.8 cm., and Mounted before page 437 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Title etched below image., Biographical details etched beneath title: Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales was born Jany. 7, 1796, and married to Leopold Prince of Saxe Coburg May 2, 1816., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Formerly mounted on blue paper. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20th, 1817, by R. Miller, Old Fish Stt
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817,
Medical and political record, a new Sunday paper. : Prospectus
Description:
Caption title., First line of text: The proprietors of The medical and political record respectfully beg leave to present to your notice a prospectus of their intended journal ... ., Prospectus for the publication of a professional medical and political journal., "The first number will appear on the 31st of December, 1820.", and Imperfect; upper right corner of sheet torn away with some loss of text. Manuscript notes on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by C. Kerwood, at the Medical and Political Record Office, John Street, Edgware Road ...
Title from item., Approximate date from internal evidence in the text., Advertising sheet, printed on both sides. The recto promotes two of John Bell's newspapers; the verso contains an advertisement for Price & Gosnell, Perfumers to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent., and For further information, consult library staff.
This indenture, made the day of in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord ...
Description:
A printed form for the use by Church-Wardens and overseers of the poor., Title from first line of text., Form completed in manuscript, from the Parish of Stone, Staffordshire, setting out the terms of apprenticeship for Mary Adderley, aged 9, ‘a poor child of the said Parish’, to be taught and instructed by John Vernon in ‘the business of a housewife’, until the age of 21 or until her marrying. Signed by the Justices of the Peace, Thomas Anson and Walter Bagot, with a small wax seal., Also annotated on the verso with a summary of the apprenticeship terms, signed and dated by the officials., and For further information, consult library staff.
This ticket entitles the bearer to be admitted to the ball at Cordwainers Hall
Description:
Title from item., Entirely engraved; illustrated with the arms of the Company of Cordwainers at top, the image and text enclosed within a decorative border., Printed in blue ink., Text at bottom: NB. You are paricularly requested to order your carriage to enter Distaff Lane from the Old Change., Form completed in manuscript, with the date and time of the ball specified as 18 October 1827 at 9 o'clock; signed at bottom by the Master "Josh. Newson.", Mounted to 27.2 x 21 cm; mounted above is a small (sheet 42 x 46 mm) hand-colored etching of the arms of the Company of Cordwainers., and Mounted opposite page 532 in volume 4 part 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Worshipful Company of Cordwainers of the City of London.
"Admission ticket ... admitting one Lady to the gallery; decorated with standards, an eagle, olive and palm branches in clouds at top; below St George's Cross on shield flanked by two dragons, standing over sword and sceptre, with ships in background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peace on Earth
Description:
Title from item., A ticket for one of the many celebrations held after the Treaty of Paris which marked the first defeat of Napoleon and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Beneath the engraved date of the event is a blank line for the Chairman's name, followed by the engraved text "Chairman." Additional instructions are engraved at bottom of plate: Admittance at the Comptrollers House (only) from twelve till three. NB. The Ladies are requested to keep possession of their tickets after the seal is taken off on admission, to be produced if required when seated., and Ticket signed by "Samuel Birch" as Chairman; numbered "No. 376" in upper left corner, and "Castle Baynard Ward" on the right, all in brown ink.
An illustrated advertising handbill for Thomas Haines's fly waggons and fly vans, running from the Blossoms Inn in the City of London to the Royal Hotel Yard, Cheltenham. Illustrated with a vignette at head of a covered fly waggon driven by two men; and a vignette at foot of a fly van with driver at front and armed coachman at rear
Alternative Title:
Thomas Haines, Junior, fly waggons to London from the Royal Hotel Yard
Description:
Title from first line of text., Engraved text begins: Thomas Haines, Jun., fly waggons to London from the Royal Hotel Yard ..., Date of publication from watermark., Watermarked paper: Balston & Co. 1824., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
S.Y. Griffith & Co., copper plate printers
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Thomas Haines Jun. (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Advertising, and Carriages & coaches
