<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Duesbury &amp; Co., manufacturers of Derby &amp; Chelsea porcelain, most respectfully beg leave to inform the nobility, gentry, &amp; public in general, that they have fitted up a large &amp; elegant suit [sic] of rooms at No. 8 Bedford-Street, Covent-Garden ... [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Derby Porcelain Manufactory</dc:creator><dc:date>[approximately 1774]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Title from item.</dc:description><dc:description>Title continues: ... which are now opened with a great variety of capital as well as useful and ornamental articles. A fine assortment of biscuit groops and single figures; also, a curious collection of Derbyshire fluors, alabasters, marbles, &amp;c. NB. The rooms are well air'd.</dc:description><dc:description>Date of publication based on opening date of the Bedford Street warehouse; see entry for William Duesbury (1725-1786) in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>