Caption title., Printed handbill; with woodcut illustrations of "matchstick men" in four panels (with letterpress captions below) on the third line and on the fourth line a hand with a finger pointing to text "Six £21.000! All in the one day , 3rd May.", "Bish is the contractor, No. 4, Cornhill, and No. 9, Charing Cross, who sold and shared the very last drawing, 1st March, 7,340 Class A £20,000, 10,004 Class B £20,000.", and For further information, consult library staff.
A scrapbook of advertisements, broadsides, single sheet verse, newspaper clippings, with some manuscript materials laid in, somewhat organized topically, with material covering over a 95-year period, from the 1740s to 1838, but mostly dating from the last quarter of the 18th century. Topics included are: Gallantry, matrimony, conjurers and fortune tellers, clubs and societies, places of entertainment, spectacles such as exotic animals, curiosities of nature, freaks, etc. ; sporting events; advertisements for apparel; medical remedies and cosmetics; plays, ballets, and performances; obituaries and accounts of strange deaths; schools for gentlemen; balloon flights; puppets, mechanical inventions; comic poetry, epigrams, epitaphs, odes, ballads; jokes; accounts of ghosts and spiritual magic; auctions; religion; want ads; cooking; army recruiting; real estate; advertisements for books; strange accounts of bizarre crimes; traps; fire-fighting; accounts of the Thames; tobacco ads; shoes; public notices; election posters; fugitives from justice; wills and last testaments; lottery ads; notices relating to the Bonapartes; and other ads and reports including a print of a mummy
Description:
In English, with some entries in French., Title assigned by cataloger., Signed on inside front cover: "Beauchamp 1837.", and Imperfect impression of "A view of the menagerie in the King's Private Road," with bottom half of plate missing; laid in; not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and France
Subject (Topic):
Ballooning, Beauty, Personal, Clothing and dress, Entertainment events, Freak shows, Ghosts, Lotteries, Medical instruments and apparatus, Menageries, Sports, Violent crimes, Social life and customs, and Foreign public opinion, British
