Invoice from M. & J. Callender, nursery and seedsmen at the Orange-Tree … 1782.

Invoice 2

Billhead from M. & J. Callendar nursery and seedsmen with itemized merchandise sold to Thomas Adams of Alnwick for his estate at Eshott in Northumberland. The vignette and engraved capitals are from the workshop of Thomas Bewick. Docketed and dated 1782 by Adams on verso and numbered ‘355’. Signed and dated by Callendar Sept. 2 1782.

  • Title: Invoice from M. & J. Callender, nursery and seedsmen at the Orange-Tree, Middle-Street, 1782 November 13.

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Invoice from M. & J. Callender, nursery and seedsmen at the Orange-Tree … 1779.

Invoice

Billhead from M. & J. Callendar nursery and seedsmen with itemized merchandise sold to Thomas Adams of Alnwick for his estate at Eshott in Northumberland. The vignette and engraved capitals are from the workshop of Thomas Bewick. Docketed and dated 1779 -1780 by Adams on verso. Signed and dated by Callendar Sept. 2 1780.

  • Title: Invoice from M. & J. Callender, nursery and seedsmen at the Orange-Tree, Middle-Street, 1779 March 2.

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Acquired May 2011, by the Lewis Walpole Library. 

Wynnstay Theatre.

Wynnstay Theatre

An engraved ticket for a program of four plays present in 1781 by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, the wealthy fourth baronet devoted to private theatricals. This ticket, an oval design in a rectangular frame, is for the 1781 performance of Rule a wife and have a wife, Bon ton, Richard III, and Lyar.

  • Title: Wynnstay Theatre.
  • Published: [England : s.n., 1781].

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Acquired May, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.

Fire-patrole …

Fire-patrole

Text on the verso of the card begins “The hours of attendance are, from …,” which is followed by a listing of the shifts at each of four periods during the year : Candlemas to Lady Day, Lady-Day to Michaelmas, etc. A note at the bottom reads: Every man is to bring his fire-axe and to carry it on his rounds.

  • Title: Fire-patrole : his turns and places of attendance …
  • Published: [London] : Printed by W.P. Norris, No. 15, Broker-Row Moorsfileds, [ca. 1795?].

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Mark Smith, bookseller, binder, stationer, music-seller, &c …

Mark Smith bookseller...

Advertisement for a new business issued by Mark Smith, with an extensive list of wares to be sold, mostly books and other items in the stationers line, but also musical instruments.

  • Title: Mark Smith, bookseller, binder, stationer, music-seller, &c. Market-Place Alnwick : takes the liberty of respectfully announcing to his friends and the public that he intends commencing business in the above branches, on January 1st, 1816 …
  • Published: Alnwick : Graham, printer, [1815].

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Acquired May, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.

 

Beetham’s royal patent washing mill No. 27 Fleet Street, London

Beetham's

Manufacturer’s card with an image of a young woman turning the handle of a Edward Beetham royal patent washing mill. Below her is an image of the company’s patent navy washing mill.

  • Title: Beetham’s royal patent washing mill No. 27 Fleet Street, London / Miss Beetham delt.
  • Published: Norwich : Published Jany. 1st, 1791 by Crouch & Stevenson, [1 Jan. 1791].

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Acquired May, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.

Bolton engraver and printer, No. 5 Cary Lane …

Bolton engraver and printer, No. 5 Cary Lane

Engraved trade card depicting Mercury and other allegorical figures, possibly advertising the work of James Bolton who traded in the City of London between 1779 and 1792.

  • Title: Bolton engraver and printer, No. 5 Cary Lane, near Goldsmith’s-Hall, seals beatly engrav’d arms painted on vellum.
  • Published: [London : s.n., between 1779 and 1792]

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P. Brown, printseller, No. 4 Crown-Street near Moor-Street, Soho.

P. Brown Printseller

Trade card of P. Brown, printseller, who was active from 1790 to 1809. In 1802 he added the activity of printer. Engraved around the perimeter of the oval: “Dealer in prints and drawings, ancient and modern. N.B. The full value given for any collection of prints, drawings, copper plates, etc.”

  • Title: P. Brown, printseller, No. 4 Crown-Street near Moor-Street, Soho.
  • [London? : s.n., between 1790 and 1801].

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Acquired May, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.

A catalogue of a large and curious collection of prints, and books of prints …

Catalogue

  • Author: Snelling, Thomas, 1717-1773.
  • Title: A catalogue of a large and curious collection of prints, and books of prints, by the most eminent masters : including a considerable collection lately purchased consisting of fine modern prints by Beauvarlet, Elliot, Hogarth … a copious collection by the old masters, viz. Albert Durer, N. de Bruyn, M. de Schoon, … which will begin to be sold on Monday the first of January, 1770, … by Thomas Snelling, (No 163,) next the Horn Tavern, in Fleet-Street. … Catalogues, may had of … Mr. Millan,Charing-Cross, Mr. Randall, Pallmall, Mr. Shropshire, Bond-Street, and at the place of sale.
  • Published: [London : s.n. , 1769]

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A catalogue of a grand and curious collection of ancient and modern engravings and etchings …

Catalogue

  • Author: Shropshire, Walter, d. 1785.
  • Title: A catalogue of a grand and curious collection of ancient and modern engravings and etchings, consigned from abroad : which has been many years collecting, by an eminent connoisseur, … Now offered to the public by Walter Shropshire, … on the first of February 1770 and to continue till all be sold off.
  • Published: [London : s.n., 1770]

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Acquired May, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.