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- Creator:
- Lackington, Allen and Co.
- Published / Created:
- 1794. and [1794]
- Call Number:
- LWL Min. 147 Object Room in Box 4
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- three-dimensional form
- Abstract:
- "A trade token issued by the famed bookseller James Lackington (1746-1815), the same year he opened the Temple of the Muses, 'one of the wonders of London' (Oxford DNB); with reputedly a million books on display, it was at the time the biggest booksho...
- Description:
- Title from text on reverse side of item, which surrounds image of an angel blowing a trumpet.
- Publisher:
- Lackington, Allen and Co and Lutwyche
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Lackington, James, 1746-1815, and Lackington, Allen and Co.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookstores, Angels, and Trumpets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Halfpenny of Lackington Allen & Co. cheapest booksellers in the world. [realia]
3.
- Creator:
- Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 September 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.09.25.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In the center of a book-lined room the bookseller, with a pen behind his ear, his hands in his pockets, glasses pushed to the top of his head, stands looking down disdainfully at a manuscript being offered to him by a thin, timid looking man who stand...
- Alternative Title:
- Bookseller and author
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Septr. 25, 1784, by I.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, Bookstores, Clergy, and Publishers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bookseller & author [graphic]
4.
- Published / Created:
- [1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.00.00.10.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An elderly man walks, stooping, in profile to the left, two large books under the left arm, an umbrella under the right, a walking-stick in his right hand. Books project from his coat-pocket. He wears high boots, a cocked hat, his queue is in a bag. ...
- Alternative Title:
- Dr. Verdion and Doctor Verdion
- Description:
- Title above image: Wonderful magazine.
- Publisher:
- Gratis to the purchasers of the Wonderful magazine, pubd. by C. Johnson
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Grahn, Theodora, 1744-1802,
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookstores, Quacks, Staffs (Sticks), Umbrellas, and Window displays
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dr. Ve-d--n [graphic].
5.
- Published / Created:
- [1 April 1809]
- Call Number:
- 809.04.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- For. No. 4 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c., pub. 1st April 1800, 101 Strand, London
- Subject (Name):
- Lackington, Allen and Co.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookstores, Stores & shops, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Messrs. Lackington Allen & Co. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square. [graphic]
