Title from item., Date inferred from printmaker's street address; Garnett Terry occupied various numbers on Paternoster Row from 1770 to 1796. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom., Text within banners surrounding central image, clockwise from upper right: Toupees; Wholesale & Retail; Cushion's; Braids; Perfumery; Wigs., and For further information, consult library staff.
Signed: Don Quixote de la Mancha, Knight of the Lions., At the foot: Given at our sty, No.47, Hay-Market, St. James's; the address of Richard Lee., First published as 'Licence for the guinea pigs to wear powder'., At head of title: (One penny)., In this edition the last line ends: "sty as above"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by R. Lee
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Hair preparations, Taxation, Hairdressing, Equipment and supplies, Toilet preparations, Anglo-French War, 1793-1802, and Finance
Caption title., An advertisement in verse, with two columns of letterpress text beginning "With humblest deference we greet ..."; wood-engraved illustration at top depicting two ladies trying on wigs both facing a bust with "Princes' Royal" on plinth; an "Explanation" printed below in five lines; all within a typographic ornament border., Date of publication from English short title catalogue., Printer prossibly W. Bailey located at 28 Great Tower Street, London. Cf. Heal, 99.22 & 23 advertise "At Bailey's Printing-Office... Shop-Bills, Hand-Bills, &c. of this Size and Paper, are printed for six Shillings a Thousand; and on an inferior Paper of this Size, for five Shillings a Thousand ...", Sheet trimmed with loss of most of the imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.