Title from text within woodcut illustration; remainder of title from letterpress text beneath illustration., Woodcut illustration of a hot air ballloon with two flag-waving gentlemen seated in the basket. The flag to the left reads "No blanks"; the flag to the right, "All money.", Printed in red and blue ink., and Mounted to: 25 x 18 cm. With a sticker in upper left corner with blue crayon annotation "11-". For further information, consult library staff.
"Dr. Lenetive, of "The Prize", finely dressed and seated on a chair, a table overturning to his right, waving his wig and a prize ticket in his hands; a lottery puff or handbill."--British Museum online catalogue
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New Year's Lottery begins 21st this month (Jan.), 2 of 20,000 guineas, and 40 other capitals
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Title from heading to second paragraph of letterpress text, printed beneath double line., Text directly beneath woodcut: New Year's Lottery begins 21st this month (Jan.), 2 of 20,000 guineas, and 40 other capitals. All sterling money - no stock prizes. Tickets and shares are selling by the contractor, T. Bish, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-Cross., Attribution to George Cruikshank and approximate date of publication from description of a similar handbill in the British Museum, which uses the same woodcut with slightly different text; cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,1217.149., Handbill with woodcut illustration at top and eighteen lines of letterpress text below., Quoted text beneath title begins: "My ticket, no. 2, 5, 3, 8, drawn this day a prize of ten thousand pounds! ..., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1442., and Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 2825.
Lottery, on a new plan, begins drawing October 20, 1807
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Caption title., Handbill with details of the lottery and the supplementary draw., "Tickets and shares are on sale at J. Warner's Licensed Lottery Office ..."--Bottom of sheet., and Name and address of "Mrs. Scott" added in ink on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., Printed handbill; with woodcut illustrations of "matchstick men" in four panels (with letterpress captions below) on the third line and on the fourth line a hand with a finger pointing to text "Six £21.000! All in the one day , 3rd May.", "Bish is the contractor, No. 4, Cornhill, and No. 9, Charing Cross, who sold and shared the very last drawing, 1st March, 7,340 Class A £20,000, 10,004 Class B £20,000.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., Printed handbill; woodcut illustration of 'The Grand Hotel' positioned in the center, with letterpres text above and below., On verso: half page woodcut illustration of a hay-maker in front of a grand house; below, advertising poem for the lottery, entitled 'The Hay-Maker.', "Only 20,000 tickets"--Beneath title., "Agents in Bath: A Barratt's Library, for Swift & Co. R. Cruttwell, for Brancomb & Co. ..."--Bottom of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Monday, August 29, 1836, in celebration of the birth day of His Most Gracious Majesty, the patron of these gardens
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Title from text within the four sides of the woodcut border, transcribed clockwise from the top., Letterpress text at center begins: Monday, August 29, 1836, in celebration of the birth day of His Most Gracious Majesty ..., Handbill, printed in red ink; with woodcut portraits of William IV in each corner of the border, and an additional woodcut at center depicting a crown with the words "The grandest night of the season.", "Doors open at half-past eight. Admission, four shillings.", Formerly mounted on a blue album sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
