The interior of a printing shop with four men engaged in various stages of the printing process including typesetting, inking, pulling the printed sheets, and binding. Sheets are shown drying overhead. Each figure and equipment is keyed, A-K.
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Plate from: The new universal magazine, or, Gentleman and lady's polite instructor. London : M. Cooper, v. 2 (1752)., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Key lacking.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Printers, Printing industry, Printing presses, and Type setting
Leaf 103. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Facing right, a full-length pot-bellied Andrew Foulis holds book entitled (in Greek characters) Homer
Alternative Title:
A. Foulis and Celebrated printer at Glasgow
Description:
Title etched below image item., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Second of three plates on leaf 103.
To William Davison, chemist, druggist, & apothecary
Description:
Date from manuscript annotation on Lewis Walpole Library copy., Engraved invoice for the pharmacist, stationer, and printer William Davison of Alnwick., and Invoice completed in manuscript to "Major Frankland, West Glanton"; numbered "231" in upper right and dated "1821 October 17" in lower left. For further information, consult library staff.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Bust-length portrait of the German printer John Frobenius, nearly in profile, facing left; wearing a fur-trimmed garment
Alternative Title:
John Frobenius, printer
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after a drawing in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 113 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Froben, Johann, -1527, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A journal kept by Horace Walpole that documents the opertaion of the Strawberry Hill Press, his private press at his home Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, England). Starting on 25 June 1757 with the erection of the press by William Robinson, the first of several printers hired by Horace Walpole to operate his press, the journal contains a list of the titles published, receipts for payment to the printers and their assistants, the indenture of Joseph Forrester, correspondence between Walpole and his printers about operations and the choice of engravers, receipts for supplies, newspaper clippings announcing the publications from the press, and two vignettes used in the Press's publications. With a medley print by Jacobus Houbraken on front paste-down with portraits of early printers: Joannes Gutenburg, Joannes Faustus, Laurentius Costerus, Aldus Manucius, and Joannes Frobenius which was also the frontispiece to volume 1 of Michael Maittaire's work Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annum MD (Hagae-Comitum: Apud Idssvu, Valillant, MDCCXIX. Also with two prints by Edward Edwards: tFarm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill; and, a portrait of Thomas Kirgate
Description:
Title from text at head of page 1, in Walpole's hand. and In English with some French.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
A half-length portrait of Thomas Kirgate facing right, with a view of the Strawberry Hill printing house in the distance on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted on page 237 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 16.4 x 13.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
A trade card for Thomas Martin, illustrated around the perimeter with tools of his trade including various kinds of knives and a fork, scissors, pocket books, belt buckles, and cocks. Also in three corners are images of a composer seated before type trays, a printer working at his press, and a weaver working his loom
Description:
Title from text in central oval of the design., Title continues: ... where merchants, shopkeepers, &c. may be supplied with a great variety of table knives & forks, razors, scissars [sic], pen & pocket knives, buckles, brass cocks, Japan'd wares, pocket books, books on various subjects, bound or in quires; silk handkerchiefs, velveteens, ... wholesale terms., Text around oval: Birmingham & Sheffield. Wholesale warehaouse., Date of publication based on other works by Martin published from this location. See English short title catalog, nos. T058628 and N66748., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
A trade card for Thomas Sabine, illustrated with tools of the printing trade along the tops and sides and below with three illustrations showing tradesmen at work: at a rolling press, a composer in front of type drawers, and two men working a letter press
Alternative Title:
Thomas Sabine, letterpress and copper plate printer
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication based on Sabine's date probable years of operation at Shoe Lane, before his partnership with his son. See Maxted, I. London book trades 1775-1800, page 197., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text below title: Gentlemen, tradesmen and others, favouring him with their Commands, may depend on having them executed in the neatest and most expeditious manner. N.B. Copper Plates neatly Engraved and Printed., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Thomas Sabine
Subject (Topic):
Occupations, Printers, Printing, Printing presses, Printmaking equipment, and Typesetting
Portrait of Thomas Kirgate, with receding, wavy hair; head and shoulders directed and looking right, wearing a plain coat, waistcoat and frilled cravat. After the portrait by Edward Edwards
Alternative Title:
Thomas Kirgate
Description:
Title etched below image., Not before 1791 the year Walpole became 4th Earl of Orford., G. Barrett known to have been active at 289 Holborn in 1794 and 1798. See Maxted, I. London Book Trades, 1775-1800., and Laid in at page 15.
