A specimen of ink lithography from R. Martin’s

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“Advertisement for the lithographers and lithographic printers R. Martin & Co, with various images of the work they undertook, including portraits, landscapes, maps, architectural and animal prints; a tablet at centre in front of the portrait of a man lettered with ‘A Specimen / of / Ink Lithography, / from R. Martin’s / 124 High Holborn.’; armour in foreground at right; a scroll in foreground at centre left signed ‘Henry R’.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Martin, Robert, active 1770-1838, printmaker, publisher.
  • Title: A specimen of ink lithography from R. Martin’s, 124 High Holborn [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : [R. Martin], [1837]

Catalog Record

837.00.00.43

Acquired November 2023

Facing Allmack’s. EO table, No. 81 Pall Mall, for gold and silver

printed business card

Printed trade card advertising gambling at an EO table.

  • Title: Facing Allmack’s. EO table, No. 81 Pall Mall, for gold and silver.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1780s?]

Catalog Record

File 66 780 Al444

Acquired November 2023

Thomas Haines Jun. fly waggons to London

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An illustrated advertising handbill for Thomas Haines’s fly waggons and fly vans, running from the Blossoms Inn in the City of London to the Royal Hotel Yard, Cheltenham. Illustrated with a vignette at head of a covered fly waggon driven by two men; and a vignette at foot of a fly van with driver at front and armed coachman at rear.

  • Author: Thomas Haines Jun. (Firm)
  • Title: Thomas Haines Jun. fly waggons to London … [graphic].
  • Publication: [Cheltenham] : S.Y. Griffith & Co., copper plate printers, [182-?]
  • Manufacture: [1824?]

Catalog Record

File 66 824 T457+

Acquired August 2023

W. Brown, architect & surveyor, Ipswich

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A classical ruined building with Doric columns, similar to the Temple of Poseidon at Paestum, is depicted; Brown’s credentials are inscribed on a chunk of masonry in the foreground.

  • Printmaker: Robinson, John Henry, 1796-1871, printmaker.
  • Title: W. Brown, architect & surveyor, Ipswich [graphic] / W. Brown inv. et delin. ; J. Robinson sculp.
  • Publication: [England] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1825]

Catalog Record

File 66 825 R662

Acquired October 2023

The popular Sunday newspaper, Bell’s weekly messenger

printed text

Advertising sheet, printed on both sides. The recto promotes two of John Bell’s newspapers; the verso contains an advertisement for Price & Gosnell, Perfumers to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent.

  • Title: The popular Sunday newspaper, Bell’s weekly messenger, will be conducted with becoming spirit and attention … : Another edition of the same paper, viz. – The Monday edition of Bell’s weekly messenger, is published every Monday …
  • Publication: [London] : Printed by J. Bell, No. 104 Drury-Lane, [between 1817 and 1820]

Catalog Record

File 66 817 P831

Acquired November 2023

G. Wooll, carver & gilder, looking glass, picture frame maker

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A lithographically printed advertisement for G. Wooll of Hastings, showing a view of the town. Wooll was also a printer and publisher who issued local views of Hastings and Rye as individual prints and bound collections.

 

  • Printmaker: Tyller, G., printmaker.
  • Title: G. Wooll, carver & gilder, looking glass, picture frame maker, fancy stationer, printseller, &c. &c., High Street, Hastings [graphic] : Rich & plain cornices, chimney & pier glasses, box & swing ditto, gold bordering for rooms. Drawings lent to copy. Glasses polished & silvered. Old paintings cleaned and repaired. Drawing materials of every description. Screens, screen handles, embosed [sic] drawing boards, carde, papers & plain do. / drawn on stone by G. Tyller [or Tykes?], April 1823.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed by Simonau London, [1823]

Catalog Record

File 63 823 G1

Acquired January 2023

Grand aerostatic ascent…

printed text

Broadside advertising an ascent by Sieur Krous involving balloons in the form of Henry IV of France and “a number of wild animals”, which would perform an “aerial chace, or hunt in the air”.

 

  • Title: Grand aerostatic ascent. The nobility, gentry, and the public are most respectfully informed that the Sieur Krous, having at length succeeded in obtaining a ground for the above experiment, it will positively take place on Monday, July 3, 1815, at the Angel Gardens, Lambeth Walk, (late Chapman’s) near Vauxhall. …
  • Publication: London : W. Glindon, Rupert-Street, Haymarket, 1815.

Catalog Record

File 53 K93 815

Acquired January 2023

Toplis & Sons, tobacco and snuff manufacturers

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  • Title: Toplis & Sons, tobacco and snuff manufacturers, No. 71, Shoreditch, London [graphic] : importers of Havannah and all other foreign cigars & snuffs, & manufacturers of all sorts of fancy tobacco’s & snuffs.
  • Publication: [London] : [Toplis & Sons], [approximately 1825]

Catalog Record

File 66 825 T675

Acquired October 2022

The City-Office and Statute-Hall, for Hiring Servants

printed text

Printed advertisement, issued by Mary Noble, for her servant registry office in London. Noble was proprietor of the business between 1781 and 1785, when the City of London Land Tax records lists her as paying an annual rent and Land Tax for her premises.

  • Author: Noble, Mary, active 1781-1785.
  • Title: The City-Office and Statute-Hall, for Hiring Servants, at No. 100, Fenchurch-Street, opposite the India-Warehouses.
  • Publication: [London] : [M. Noble], [not after 1782]

Catalog Record

File 66 782 C581

Acquired August 2022