Industry and idleness : a pleasing and instructive tale

Posted on January 27, 2021 by km55

A moral tale modeled after William Hogarth’s Industry and idleness.

Author: Elliott, Mary, 1794?-1870, author.
Title: Industry and idleness : a pleasing and instructive tale, for good little girls, in words not exceeding two syllables / by Mary Belson, author of “Simple Truths.”
Edition: A new edition, corrected.
Publication: London : William Darton, 58, Holborn Hill, 1820.

659 820 El46

Acquired March 2020

The cries of London, as they are daily exhibited in the streets

Posted on November 19, 2020 by km55

Title: The cries of London, as they are daily exhibited in the streets : with an epigram in verse, adapted to each. Embellished with sixty-two elegant cuts. To which is added, a description of the metropolis in verse.
Publication: London : Printed for F. Newbery, at the corner of St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1775.

646 775 N534

Acquired November 2019

Posted on December 2, 2019 by km55

Title: Crabb’s new book of trades : containing an account of the origin and present state of most of the trades practised in England : with neat embellishments.
Published: London : Printed and published by T. Crabb, 15, John Street, Blackfriars Road : Sold also by J. Bysh, Paternoster Row : C. Penny, Wood Street : R. Hill, and Lingley and Belch, Borough : and all other Booksellers, [between 1818 and 1821?]

63 818 C883

Acquired July 2018

Posted on July 14, 2013 by km55

Eleven lines of text below image and above title: Gemmen, at the general meeting you impowered [sic] me …

Publisher’s advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.

Printmaker: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, printmaker.
Title: Deputy Pendulum’s motion for an address [graphic] / IC.
Published: Lond. [i.e. London] : Pub. Nov. 29, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, [29 November 1795]

795.11.29.01 Impression 2

Acquired May 2013