"Frontispiece for 'A Catalogue of News and Useful Maps Curious and Entertaining Prints, Books of Architecture, Great Variety of Drawing Books in all the Branches of Penmanship And the best of each Kind'; title on scroll, surrounded by prints and maps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: D,3.524., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
A trade card issued by Edward Orme announcing a change of address for his printselling, framing and stationery business from Conduit Stree to New Bond Street. The image show a cherub emerging from a break in a thick bank of clouds, as he holds a caducesus. On the right a bearded man in a cap and in a fur trimmed cloak reaches toward the cherub; the man has a snake at his feet. High in the center a bat flies toward the scene
Alternative Title:
Edward Orme, removed from Conduit Street to 59 New Bond Street ...
Description:
Title from text in center of image., Date of publication from dealer's description., Text below image: Where are sold all his new invented transparent prints and every other publication. Merchants & dealers supplied on the most liberal terms. Pictures, prints & drawings framed. Drawing books, fancy prints & drawing materials., "Printseller to the King.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark on all but lower edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
A medley print advertising the business of map and printseller George Pulley with portrait prints, caricatures, and satires overlaid on images of maps, some prints with identifiable titles (e.g. The contrast). According to the British Museum online catalogue (September 2019) trade cards of the same design were used by Michael Jackson and Peter and Elizabeth Griffin
Alternative Title:
George Pulley Esqr., map and printseller at Rembrandt's Head ...
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Autographed letter signed by John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, and addressed to the booksellers Messrs. Dodsley on the subject of Horace Walpole. He commences the letter by asking to see any work by "Mr Walpole": "I am told of one that it is very difficult to be procured". He says that he met "Mr Walpole" many years ago at Houghton when he was treated with “honours and civility," but has never had "an opportunity of improving my acquaintance with him" but would "you oblige me to the highest degree in trying to let me have one of his books". Signed "Corke".
Description:
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork (1707-1762), writer, friend of Swift, Pope and Johnson., In English., Date based on beginning of partnership of Robert and James Dodsley, Dodsley spelled "Dodseley" in the address., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and R. and J. Dodsley.
Yale's microfiche copy is issued by IDC in "Book history in Russia" series., Russian in Cyrillic script., and "Zhurnal russkoĭ literaturnoĭ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti, knizhnoĭ torgovli, knigopechatanii︠a︡."; subtitle varies.
Publisher:
Izd. knizhnoĭ torgovleĭ Bekkera
Subject (Geographic):
Russia
Subject (Topic):
Russian literature and Booksellers and bookselling
Yale's microfiche copy is issued by IDC in "Book history in Russia" series., Russian in Cyrillic script., and "Zhurnal russkoĭ literaturnoĭ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti, knizhnoĭ torgovli, knigopechatanii︠a︡."; subtitle varies.
Publisher:
Izd. knizhnoĭ torgovleĭ Bekkera
Subject (Geographic):
Russia
Subject (Topic):
Russian literature and Booksellers and bookselling
Yale's microfiche copy is issued by IDC in "Book history in Russia" series., Russian in Cyrillic script., and "Zhurnal russkoĭ literaturnoĭ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti, knizhnoĭ torgovli, knigopechatanii︠a︡."; subtitle varies.
Publisher:
Izd. knizhnoĭ torgovleĭ Bekkera
Subject (Geographic):
Russia
Subject (Topic):
Russian literature and Booksellers and bookselling
Yale's microfiche copy is issued by IDC in "Book history in Russia" series., Russian in Cyrillic script., and "Zhurnal russkoĭ literaturnoĭ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti, knizhnoĭ torgovli, knigopechatanii︠a︡."; subtitle varies.
Publisher:
Izd. knizhnoĭ torgovleĭ Bekkera
Subject (Geographic):
Russia
Subject (Topic):
Russian literature and Booksellers and bookselling
Yale's microfiche copy is issued by IDC in "Book history in Russia" series., Russian in Cyrillic script., and "Zhurnal russkoĭ literaturnoĭ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti, knizhnoĭ torgovli, knigopechatanii︠a︡."; subtitle varies.
Publisher:
Izd. knizhnoĭ torgovleĭ Bekkera
Subject (Geographic):
Russia
Subject (Topic):
Russian literature and Booksellers and bookselling
Yale's microfiche copy is issued by IDC in "Book history in Russia" series., Russian in Cyrillic script., and "Zhurnal russkoĭ literaturnoĭ di︠e︡i︠a︡telʹnosti, knizhnoĭ torgovli, knigopechatanii︠a︡."; subtitle varies.
Publisher:
Izd. knizhnoĭ torgovleĭ Bekkera
Subject (Geographic):
Russia
Subject (Topic):
Russian literature and Booksellers and bookselling