This is to give notice to the nobility and gentry, that the famous Mr. Zucker …

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First line: I. He will cut off a pigeon’s head with a sword by only drawing the sword through the pigeon’s shadow in the looking-glass

  • TitleThis is to give notice to the nobility and gentry, that the famous Mr. Zucker is just return’d from abroad … These amazing feats consist in a delightful amusement of skill of the eye, hands, and table, never seen in these kingdoms before, and are as follows … .
  • Publication :[London : Publisher not identified, 1761]

Catalog Record

File 66 76- T448

Acquired July 2015

To the natives of the parish of St Giles’s..

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An invitation to the ancient ceremony of beating the bounds, with a large view of St. Giles’s from the south (figures include a strolling couple, a playing boy, and a cripple with his dog) and a vignette of the church. The form has blanks left for the signatures of the stewards as well as the date (day, month, and the two numbers for the decade) and place of dining to be written in by hand.

  • AuthorSaint Giles without Cripplegate Parish Church (London, England)
  • TitleTo the natives of the parish of St Giles’s Cripplegate, London … [graphic] / J. Sturt sc.
  • Publication[London : The Church stewards, ca. 1756]

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

File 646 17– D952+

Acquired July 2015