Five guineas bounty. Wanted, a few notorious Jacobin scoundrels and Wanted, a few notorious Jacobin scoundrels
Description:
Title from item., Text continues: The advantages in this corps are expected to be very great, as they will have the exquisite pleasure of each others company, in the delightful Island of Elba, in the Botanybay of Tuscany., A handbill presumably issued shortly after Napoleon's abdication and exile to St. Helena in April 1814., With a woodcut illustration of a winged devil at head., and For further information, consult library staff.
A decorative handbill or trade card, divided into three compartments, all framed in a neo-Gothic border. In the center, framed by three Gothic arches with the word "Mechanical" etched below, are images of three machines including a steam powered tractor and printing press; etched below is an advertisement for the firm Hare & Co., located in the Strand, London. On the left within a rounded arch is the image of a Gothic church, identified below as Exeter and within the border the word "Architecture". On the right under a rounded arch is a pastoral scene with two figures, one walking under a tree and the other walking on a bridge over a river, with a church on a hill in the distance; the word "Picturesque" is etched below in the decorative border
Description:
Title from item., Date based on first use of electrotyping in England., and For further information, consult library staff.
An advertisement for a joint exhibition at the Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, of a panaroma of London "painted on 10,000 square feet of canvas and displaying nearly 100,000 figures, 500 of the principal characters on the foreground the size of life."
Alternative Title:
Great Room, Spring Gardens. Novelty! Marshall's grand historical peristrephic panorama of the ceremony of the coronation ...
Description:
Title from first line of text., The exhibition described here and a sketched version of this text can be seen in Charles Williams' satirical print: The moving panorama, or, Spring Garden rout. London : Pubd. June, 1823 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly, [June 1823]., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J.B. Laidlaw, printer, 5 Spring Gardens
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
"The broadside of French's Express Passenger Train ... reproduced by the Meriden Gravure Co."--P. v. and Bookplate of the Meriden Gravure Company. Folded facsim. mounted on lining paper at front. From the collection of the Meriden-Stinehour Press.
Publisher:
G. Dawson,
Subject (Geographic):
San Francisco (Calif.) --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
French, Parker H., Johnson, Kenneth M., Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden Gravure Company Bookplate., and Meriden-Stinehour Press Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining --California and Railroads--Passenger traffic
Caption title., A handbill issued by the churchwardens of St. Martin’s in the Fields, London, forbidding businesses to operate on Sundays, "Except works of necessity" and also mandating the hours that households must show lights on the exteriors., Signed by the churchwardens: Thomas Kynaston and Richard Smith., Not in ESTC., and Mounted on thin card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Church : Westminster, London, England)
