"Title page to catalogue of John Bowles, printer and printseller, at the Black Horse, Cornhill, London; text in rectangle at the centre, with naval scene showing two ships on the sea below; behind the text a map, a letter to Mr John Bowles, a landscape and a study of eyes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., "This title page was used for Bowles's catalogues from at least 1731, when his shop was at Mercer's Hall, Cheapside; the address was altered when he moved to Cornhill."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.19., Date of publication based on publisher's street address; John Bowles started trading at the sign of the Black Horse, Cornhill, by 1733. See British Museum online catalogue., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
John Bowles
Subject (Topic):
Warships, Maps, Landscapes (Representations), and Eyes
Antony and Cleopatra and Collection of prints from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating The dramatic works of Shakspeare, by the artists of Great-Britain. Volume II.
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Print appearing on the title page of volume II of: A collection of prints from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating The dramatic works of Shakspeare, by the artists of Great-Britain. London : Published by John and Josiah Boydell, Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall, and No. 90, Cheapside; printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's, MDCCCIII.
Publisher:
Pub. June 4, 1803 by J. and J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90 Cheapside, London
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text in center of image., Above title are the phrases "Ever changing," "Ever new," and "Vive la bagatelle.", Plate numbered "100" in upper right corner., Title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., For an 1821 reissue of this title page, see no. 11457 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Watermark: 1817., Mounted on laid paper backing., and Title page to volume 4.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Title-page; the title is engraved across the centre of the page. Above are two festoons of ribbon centred by a bow from which is suspended in a round frame a half length figure of a jester in a fool's cap, and inscribed 'Comic Mirror'. Below it is a loop of ribbon inscribed 'To hold as t'were the Mirror up to Nature. Shakespeare.' One festoon (left), inscribed 'Country Observations on the Caricature Magazine', supports half length figures inspecting bound numbers (or volumes) of the Magazine. A comely woman says: "Come John let me look don't Keep it all to yourself." Two oafish men hold an open book, saying, "Dont be in a hurry well these things be the drollest things ever sent into our Country," and "There be one exactly like our Exciseman." A third man inspects a volume, saying, "I wonder how they think of all these things." The other festoon, 'Town Observations on the Caricature Magazine', supports two men and two women (three-quarter length), ugly but quasi-fashionable, eagerly inspecting the (bound) prints. They say: "It is certainly very amuseing"; "Pray Sir have they commenced the second Volume"; "Just got the first number Ma'am from Mr Teggs." The lower part and sides of the design are flanked by two processions. On the left are 'Whimsical Characters ascending to the Temple of Fame'. Men and women in back view ascend, receding in perspective to a round temple on which Fame blows his trumpet. Those in the foreground are a fat parson, a foppish military officer wearing a huge crescent-shaped cocked hat, a fat 'cit' arm-in-arm with a thin lady. A Highlander walks in front of them. On the left is 'A Grotesque Deputation from the Temple of Momus - returnig [sic] thanks for past favors and soliciting future patronage.' These are Lilliputian figures (cf. British Museum Satire No. 9635, &c.) with large grotesque heads of men and women, all grinning, who descend from a temple on which straddles Momus. Between the two processions and forming a tail-piece is 'The Genius of Caricature opening the Second Volume.' A man with a large grinning face, faun's ears, and butterfly wings, wearing a Harlequin suit, and perhaps a fantastic representation of Tegg, see British Museum Satire No. 11133, sprawls on the ground holding an open volume: 'Caricature Magazine Vol 2d.' His elbow rests on 'Caricature Magazine, Vol. 1.' Beside him are (left) papers inscribed 'Bulls', 'Anecdotes', 'Jests', 'Puns', 'Bon Mot[s]', and (right) separate prints."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hudibrastic mirror
Description:
Title from text in image., Artist, printmaker, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Second state of the plate, with Rowlandson's name replacing Woodward's name in title. For the earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0720.65., Title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Text below imprint: Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur. Horace Sat. Lib. I., and Title page to volume 2.
Leaf 1. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Caricatures drawn and etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Description:
Title from text in image., Title page to: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Text within speech bubble below title: Gentlemen. In presenting to your notice this volume of caricatures ..., Design copied from plates by Charles Williams after G.M. Woodward that were published in Caricature magazine, with the bottom portion taken from the tailpiece to volume 1 and the top portion taken from the title page to volume 2. Cf. Nos. 10916 and 10917 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and On leaf 1 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Caricatures, macaronies and characters and Caricatures, macaronies & characters
Description:
Title from text etched in center of design., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Title page for: Darly's comic-prints, v. 2 (1772)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Imperfect; "Vol. II" at top of plate has been erased and a linear pattern in ink written in its place.
Title from text in image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Title page from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1773., and Back fly leaf and back cover in same folder.
Collection of prints from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating The dramatic works of Shakspeare, by the artists of Great-Britain
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Print appearing on the title page of volume I of: A collection of prints from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating The dramatic works of Shakspeare, by the artists of Great-Britain. London : Published by John and Josiah Boydell, Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall, and No. 90, Cheapside; printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's, MDCCCIII.
Publisher:
Pub. June 4, 1803 by J. and J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90 Cheapside, London
A newspaper crier blows a horn; the words of the title are written acroos a scroll that falls from his arm to the ground
Description:
Title engraved in image., Publication date from contemporary mss. annotation on The Lewis Walpole Library impression (800.00.00.64)., Title page from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.