"Satire on Bute's alleged sale of public positions paralleled with Earl Talbot's introduction of economies into the royal household. An auction is taking place in a large kitchen where, in the centre, Talbot, Lord Steward of the Household, instructs t...
Alternative Title:
Catalogue of the kitchen furniture of John Bull Esqr. leaving of house-keeping now selling by auction
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Royal households, Accounting, Auctions, Cooks, and Kitchens
With contemporaneous engraving "The Good Samaritan" (R.T. Bone del. ; W. Bond sculp.) pasted in as a frontispiece. Bound in contemporary green morocco, boards ruled in gilt with blind-stamped Greek key roll, flat spine titled and tooled in gilt with f...
Publisher:
Printed for the Society by W. Marchant, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress
Subject (Topic):
Officials and employees, Accounting, Noncitizens, Immigrants, and Charities
Manuscript, in a single hand, which records the amounts of money, bonds, and interest earned each year, as well as debentures, bounties, certificates, and salaries paid on such items as duties on wine, peppers, candles, apples, and glass; beaver skins...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Exchequer.
Subject (Topic):
Customs administration, Finance, Public, Accounting, and Revenue
An accountant in spectacles shown half length sitting behind a desk as he studies the open on the table; another "Day Book" is propped up behind him on the right, beneath a stack of invoices on a spindle on a rail. On the wall behind a bird cage are p...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Birdcages, Business people, and Offices
