At Brabins's, original mead warehouse, facing Devonshire Square without Bishopsgate, London ... [graphic].

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Title: At Brabins's, original mead warehouse, facing Devonshire Square without Bishopsgate, London ... [graphic].
Published / Created: [approximately 1757]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Brabins's
Description: Title from item.
Title continues: Is made and sold fine mead, at 15s. p. doz. 13 bottles, sent to any part or near town, without any expence to [the] buyer, a single bottle may be had at 13s.; bottles to be paid for or exchanged; at the same place is to be had the true virgin honey, now used by many in tea and punch as an excellent sweetener. Note, in any decline, consumptive cases, rheumatism, gravel, asthmas &c mead is greatly commended by many eminent physicians as most salutary, being as friendly as it is pleasant.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge.
On leaf 35 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Provenance: Collected by P. (or T.) Legge of St. James' Market, with his notes occasionally on the versos of the cards. Acquired by Thomas Babb for the Yale Library from Dawson's; November 1962.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Advertisements
Trade cards (advertising)
Ephemera
Engravings England London 1757
Material: engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: text
still image
Subjects: England > London > 1757

Access: Public
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