publish'd according to act of Parliament, Septr. 15, 1762.
Call Number:
762.09.15.01.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
"A broadside satirising Lord Bute's mission to Paris to arrange peace with France, disputed by two patrons of the fictitious "Bedford Coffee-House"; with an etching showing the interior of a coffee-house, two gentlemen seated at a table, on the table various newspapers and a tray with a hot chocolate pot, one gentleman pouring liquid from the cup into the saucer; with engraved inscriptions, speech bubbles, and with letterpress title and verses in two columns, and with one vertical segment of type ornament"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Letterpress broadside song, illustrated with etching at top of sheet (plate mark 155 x 200 mm)., A song with nine stanzas in two columns separated with decorative border: Good people attend (if you can but spare time), to a grumblig poet, who grumbles in rhyme ..., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Sold by W. Tringham, engraver in Castle Alley, Royal Exchange, and at the print shop under St. Dunstan's Church ; and by all the print and pamphlet shops