A broadside with seven verses in letterpress below an engraving, representing three Red Indian Chiefs in their national costumes -- "The Stalking Turkey", "The Pouting Pidgeon", "The Man killer". This satire written on the occasion of the arrival in London of three chiefs of the Cherokee Nation, on an embassy to the Court of George III, and the impression these envoys produced on the English
Description:
Caption title., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Bowditch's annotations on mounting sheet., Annotated in an unknown hand below verse., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm; some damage to edges and lower corners.
Publisher:
Sold by the author, opposite the Union Coffee-House, in the Strand, near Temple-Bar, and by all the print and pamphlet seller[s]
Bd. with before plate 37): his: The shape, skeleton and foliage of ... trees. [London, 1786]. In manuscript on half-title: "From the author". Uncut. Bound to 38 cm., Plates 17-36 (numbered 1-20) printed four to a plate., and Signatures: [A]-K2.
Publisher:
Printed for the author, by J. Dixwell, in St. Martin's Lane: and sold by Mr. A. Cozens, no. 4, Leicester Street, Leicester Fields; and J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall,
Advertisement on p. [24] at end., Includes index., Parts II and III, 'Herefordshire orchards,' and the appendix have separate titlepages; Part II titlepage is dated 1725., Signatures: A-T⁸ U⁴ X-Rr⁸ Ss⁴, Text is continuous despite pagination., The ornaments from p.332 onward are those used by Samuel Richardson (ESTC T009344)., and Titlepage in red and black.
Publisher:
Printed for W. Mears,
Subject (Name):
Beale, John, 1603-1683? Herefordshire orchards, a pattern for all England. 1726., Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732. Gentleman and gardener's kalendar. 1726., and Kirkall, Elisha, 1682?-1742, printmaker
