Facing Almack's. EO table, No. 81 Pall Mall, for gold and silver and Facing Almack's. Even Odd table, No. 81 Pall Mall, for gold and silver
Description:
Title from item., Engraved text framed by a decorative border., Printed trade card advertising gambling at an EO table., Questionable date based on James Graham's tenure in the building., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., Printed in two columns with a woodcut at the head of each column, and playing cards surrounding text., Text begins: The serjeant commanded his party to the church, and when the parson had ended his prayer, he took his text; and all of them that had a Bible pulled it out to find the text, but this soldier had neither Bible, almanack, nor common prayer book, but he put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a pack of cards, and spread them before him as he sat, and while the parson was preaching he first kept looking at one card and then at another., Undated; James Catnach was active at this address from 1813 until his retirement in 1838; see Hindley, C. The history of the Catnach Press ..., 1886. Queen Victoria is mentioned in the text: "And also of Queen Victoria, to pray for her.", so the printing date must be after her accession in 1837., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Catnach, printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Middleton, Richard, Private in the 66th Regiment of Foot.
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Prayer, Christianity, Soldiers, Religious life, Almanacs, Playing cards, Religious services, Soliders, and British
Title from item., Letterpress text, printed in two columns, beginning: Ruminating on the days which have long past over me ..., With a wood engraved illustration on first page showing George IV in a tattered uniform, sitting on a stool in an alley in front of a sign saying "Remember the poor debtors"; another sign above him reads "Fleet Market," and the pawnbrokers' symbol hangs on a wall to the right. Antlers, dice, bottles, and papers (including one reading "Debts of honor") are on the ground at the King's feet. A crowd of angry men waiting for loan repayment can be seen in the background. A caption from Psalm lii. 7 is printed below: "Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength ...", Publisher's advertisement at foot of second page: Just published, the following dreams: (by the same author.) 1. The depraved husband. -- 2. The conspirators. -- 3. The degraded King. With appropriate cuts., "Price 3d. coloured, - 2d. plain.", Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other item) on leaf 12 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Geo. IV" identified in ink beneath illustration.
Publisher:
Printed and published by J. Turner, 170, Aldersgate Street, London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subject (Topic):
Debt, Pawnshops, Antlers, Gambling, and Signs (Notices)
