Caption title., Date from ms. note on the copy in The Lewis Walpole Library,Yale University., and Ms. annotations include address of Wilmot and W\hite, date, and signature of A. MacKenzie. For further information, consult library staff.
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Royal Mail. Between Calais and Paris -worked with post-horses, and quitting the latter every afternoon at 4 o'clock: -its return of course depending on the arrival of the mail packet at Calais ..., and Second sheet attached to print 9 x 17 cm.
The Bristol London Royal mail wagon arrives outside the Post Office as men, women, and children (and dogs) walk about the street, some reading letters others conversing. Next to the Post Offfice is the Fire Office
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Date of publication erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Published by Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Crowds, Dogs, Mail wagons, Postal service, and Post offices
"Interior view of the post room, in the post office, London; men in red coats sit at rows of desks sorting post; men in black coats stand around green table in left foreground, also sorting post."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Name of aquatintist is not present on the plate, resulting in a blank space preceding "aquat." in lower right corner., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 63., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 230.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st April 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Caption title, with vignette in the center of the line., Blank form to be filed out with travel times for a trip between Portsmouth and Chicester., and For further information, consult library staff.
