To William Davison, chemist, druggist, & apothecary
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Date from manuscript annotation on Lewis Walpole Library copy., Engraved invoice for the pharmacist, stationer, and printer William Davison of Alnwick., and Invoice completed in manuscript to "Major Frankland, West Glanton"; numbered "231" in upper right and dated "1821 October 17" in lower left. For further information, consult library staff.
A copy of an illiterate bricklayer's bill that was written with pictographs; the artist included a narrative description of its meaning below the image. The pictographs included three different sized stick-figures (two men and one boy), a four-square grid with three of the four squares filled with dots (three quarters of a day), two "Y" shaped symbols (hods of mortar), two "X" shaped symbols (10 shillings & 10 pence), and a sketch of a hanged man (a settled bill).
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Title from text inscribed with black ink within image., Date from note inscribed with graphite pencil below image., and For further information, consult library staff.
A collection of twenty engraved and letterpress British inn bills completed in manuscript in various hands from regions throughout England and Wales, dating between circa 1780 and 1841. Many are printed with menus listing food and drinks as well as services, providing insight into what travellers at the end of the Georgian era were offered in any given region in this period; they are also early examples of the growing tourism trade. Beside tea, coffee, milk, soda water, lemonade, cider (cyder), and a wide range of spirits, other options for speciality drinks include: negus, punch, Geneva, perry, and malt liquors. Many of the various services relate to the care and maintenance of horses and carriages; besides blacksmithing, farrier and saddling services, many of the inns offered hay and corn, rush lights, etc. Also on offer were "servant's eating and ale", beds with extra charges for "fires in a bed chamber", and washing; other services listed included "Chaise hire", servants, providers were sometimes available. Other common services and goods included writing materials, postage, tobacco, and, of course, meals with various foods like fruit listed separately. The printed invoices and menus include some with engraved designs or woodcuts that incorporate a representation of a local attraction or motifs indicative of the trade. Several of the bills also include the imprint of the provincial printer. The majority have manuscript annotations and Two invoices from Welsh business are produced by "Watton, Printer, Shrewsbury Chronicle" for Bedd Gelert Hotel, Carnarvonshire A. Prichard and Harod Arms Hotel, Devil's Bridge, a village and community in Ceredigion, Wales, both of which are illustrated on the fronts and backs, with the same image on the back: The Iron Suspension Bridge, completed and opened on Monday, Januaray 30th, 1826, over the Menai Strait from Carnarvonshire into Anglesey. The fronts include the advertisements for the individual business but also include other natural wonders of the area: Cataracts and Aber Glaslyb Bridge, the Salmon Leap and the Pass in Snowden
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Title from dealer's catalog., In English., and For further information, consult library staff.
On an engraved billhead illustrated with a medallion of St. Luke mixing paint on a palette, Joseph Bell's itemized invoice to Charles Wren dated 20 July 1782. Motto at the head of the sheet: "Pictures carefully cleaned, lined & repaired, & funeral achievements accurately painted, and picture frames neatly executed in oil, or burnished in gold."
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In English. and For further information, consult library staff.
A manuscript invoice issued by Robert Sayer, a successful London print, map, and chart publisher, on 15 August 1772. The purchaser is one "Mr. Gordon" of "9 Bury Court, St. Mary Ave". The list is grouped by type, "10 historical prints", "72 prints of ladies, eminent men, humourous, etc.", "8 large landskips", and "12 views of Havannah", with details concerning framing, glass, cases, and shipping charges. On the verso, a docket title indicating a discount persumably because of the size of the order
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Title supplied by cataloger., In English., and For further information, consult library staff.
Billhead from M. & J. Callendar nursery and seedsmen with itemized merchandise sold to Thomas Adams of Alnwick for his estate at Eshott in Northumberland. The vignette and engraved capitals are from the workshop of Thomas Bewick. Docketed and dated 1779 -1780 by Adams on verso. Signed and dated by Callendar Sept. 2 1780
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In English. and For further information, consult library staff.
Billhead from M. & J. Callendar nursery and seedsmen with itemized merchandise sold to Thomas Adams of Alnwick for his estate at Eshott in Northumberland. The vignette and engraved capitals are from the workshop of Thomas Bewick. Docketed and dated 1779 -1780 by Adams on verso. Signed and dated by Callendar Sept. 2 1780
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In English. and For further information, consult library staff.
On engraved letterhead decorated with a vignette of a sailing ship, a paid receipt for the sale of painting supplies to Mr. George Shaerstadt (or Cheenestadt), possibly for work done for the Prince of Wales
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In English. and For further information, consult library staff.
