"The stout Empress of Russia sits on a throne, whose seat she completely covers, facing three-quarter to the left towards the Prince of Wales, who bows before her, hat in hand, in profile to the right. He says, adapting Falstaff's words ('2 Henry, IV', v. 5): "Oh what a thing it is to be in Love, To ride day and night; not to deliberate not to remember, not to have patience to shift me, but to stand stained with travel, & sweating with desire to see thee: Thinking on nothing else; putting all affairs in oblivion, as if there were nothing else to be done, but to see thee." He wears riding-dress with spurred boots. Behind and on the extreme left stands John Bull, full-face, a plainly dressed citizen wearing top-boots; he says: "There my Lad is a fine buxom Widow, aye and warm too, if you'l have her you need not ask Dad, or any of your Acquaintance for any Thing, she'll finish your house, & furnish it too for you, aye & keep you warm in cold frosty weather with her fur skins, a rare match my Lad especially as you are fond of Widows!!" The Empress, who clutches the fur (a tiger-skin) which trims her draperies, has an inscrutable expression. On her right is the bust of Fox by Nollekens, peering forward at the Prince with an anxious expression. On her left and on the extreme right stands a courtier, holding a long staff, wearing a bear's skin, his profile showing through the beast's open jaws. Behind is the back of the throne decorated with a double-headed imperial eagle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bull's hint for a profitable alliance
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: who has jus[t] fitted up his exhibition in an entire novel stile [sic], admittance one shilling. NB. folios of caracatures [sic] lent., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 29 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Sepr. 26, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
BEIN 1978 +S3 1: No. 47 of 55 works bound together with binder's title: Leisure hour library., Caption title., By Charlotte M. Brame., Advertising matter on t.p., Text in three columns., "Lady Gwendoline's dream" begins on p. 3., "The witch of Wenham" by John Greenleaf Whitter: p. 2., and "A stolen letter / by Wilkie Collins": p. 14-16.
BEIN JWJ Zan B174 927Me: James Weldon Johnson's inscribed copy., Blanks not digitized., and Publisher's advertisement for other works by Marcel Sauvage laid in.
Publisher:
Kra,
Subject (Name):
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
Subject (Topic):
African American entertainers --France --Biography
Title from item., Sheet trimmed, resulting in loss of plate mark on top and sides of illustration., Illustration to ballad Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The Wags. The text of the ballad is printed below the plate., Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, price 6d. plain, 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Bachelors' Hall, The Greenwich Pensioner, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibdin and others., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Bachelors -- Social gatherings -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Wine glasses -- Utensils: ladles -- Furniture: tables -- Chairs -- Chamber pots -- Urination -- Musical entertainments., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Pub. Aprill [sic] 30, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
British tars giving the carmignols a dressing on memorable 1st of June 1794
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: who has just fitted up his exhibition on an entire novel stile [sic] admittance one shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to sansculottes -- Dogs: bulldog -- Emblems: tricolor cockades., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. June 25, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799
Subject (Topic):
First of June, Battle of the, 1794, Sansculottes, Fighting, Sailors, and British
BEIN 1978 +S3 1: No. 29 of 55 works bound together with binder's title: Leisure hour library., Caption title., Text in three columns., and Advertising matter on p. 16.
BEIN 1978 +S3 1: No. 15 of 55 works bound together with binder's title: Leisure hour library., Caption title., Text in three columns., and Advertising matter on p. 16.
BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A50 1: Inscribed: R.F. Wright, Esq. Bookseller's stamp: Pocock, bookseller, Bridge Street, Bath., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A50 2: Variant final gathering in pt. 6. Inscribed: C.H. Lattimore, Esq. Inscribed: Mary of Normanby., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A50 3: Reconstructed copy. Imperfect: p. 157-168 wanting from pt. 10; t.p. for v. 3 wanting from pt. 20; wrapper wanting from pt. 8., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A50 4: Parts 3 and 11, all else wanting. Bookseller's label: Weekly & monthly publications ... George Young, 9, Suffolk-street, Dublin., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens A50 5: Bound in 4 v. with preliminaries preceding text in each v. Front wrappers from one original weekly number and one monthly part bound in. Extra-illustrated by 32 pencil-and-wash copies by H.K. Browne of the engravings and 70 plates of Sibson's extra etchings. Binder's stamp: Bound by Riviere & Son. Bookplates of Cortlandt F. Bishop and Lewis A. Hird., BEIN Dickens +840Me: Part 5 only, all else wanting., Issued in 20 monthly parts from April, 1840, to Nov., 1841, in numbered and dated wrappers and with advertising matter. Title pages and preliminaries for 3 vols. appear in parts 6, 12, and 20. (Also issued in 88 weekly numbers and 3 v. set.), Wrapper title: Master Humphrey's clock / by "Boz" ... ; with illustrations by G. Cattermole and H.K. Browne., and Includes "The old curiosity shop" and "Barnaby Rudge".
BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A49 2: Inscribed: James M. Call. Original wrappers., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A49 4: Reconstructed copy with many leaves of text from later impressions. Wrappers for many numbers wanting., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +A49 5: No. 7 only. Original wrappers., BEIN Gimbel/Dickens A49 6: Bound in 3 v. with preliminaries preceding text in each v. Three original wrappers and eight plates of H.K. Browne's extra etchings bound in. Binder's stamp: Bound by Riviere & Son. Bookplate: Omnia probate bonum tenete., BEIN Dickens 840Mb Copy 2: Bound in 3 v. with preliminaries preceding text in each v. Imperfect: "Preface to Barnaby Rudge" wanting. Original wrapper of no. 20 bound in. Bookplate of Edward George Herbert., BEIN Dickens +840M Copy 2: Nos. 1-3, 57 only. Original wrappers., BEIN Dickens +840Ma: Unbound sheets; without wrappers. Imperfect: t.p. for v. 1 and dedication wanting., Issued in 88 weekly numbers from April 4, 1840, to Nov. 27, 1841, in numbered and dated wrappers and with advertising matter. First and last leaves of each gathering serve as wrappers. Title pages and preliminaries for 3 vols. appear in nos. 26, 52, and 88. (Also issued in 20 monthly parts and 3 v. set.), Wrapper title: Master Humphrey's clock / by "Boz" ... ; with illustrations by G. Cattermole and H.K. Browne., and Includes "The old curiosity shop" and "Barnaby Rudge".
