"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.
Advertisement for a new business issued by Mark Smith, with an extensive list of wares to be sold, mostly books and other items in the stationers line, but also musical instruments and music books
Description:
All but p. [1] blank., Addressed to: R. Thorp, Esq., and Small tear in the center of the fold. For further information, consult library staff.
A view from the street of the bookseller William Darton's shop at No. 58 Holborn in London, with the shop window filled with prints and books. Above the windows Darton advertises the scope of his wares: "Books in all languages on the arts, sciences &c.; Maps, plans, charts, prints & games; Works of merit soon as published. A woman and two children are shown looking in the windows while a second woman and child are shown entering the shop. A horse-drawn carriage enters the scene from the right. On the left, a man sits beside a lamppost with a basker and dog at his side
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Possibly used as a trade card?, and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
William Darton, 58, Holborn Hill, 1822, where may be had maps and prints wholesale
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Darton, William, 1781-1854.
Subject (Topic):
Booksellers and bookselling, City & town life, Lampposts, Stores & shops, Window displays, and Carriages & coaches
William Clement, bookseller and stationer, No. 201 Strand, (opposite St. Clements Church)
Description:
Title from item., Date inferred from bookseller's listed street address. See British Book Trade Index online., Engraved trade card, illustrated with books and quills and ornamental garland., and For further information, consult library staff.