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• Title:Trade card for the Leather Bottle Hotel, Cobham, Kent.
  
• Publication:England, 1860s?
  
• Physical Description:1 trade card ; 9.1 x 12.6 cm
  
• Links:View catalog record for original copper plate used to print the trade card
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: TX910.G7 L43 1860
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy is housed with the original copper plate used to print the present trade card. See link herewith.
  
• Summary:Text, from top left to bottom right: "Hot punch, a specialité. An ordinary at half past one. Superior bedrooms & private apartments. Dickens' old Pickwick, Leather Bottle Hotel. Cobham, opposite the church & college, Kent. All among the cherries, apples & hops. Favorite resort of Charles Dickens. 4 miles from Gravesend & Strood, 1 mile from Sole St. Station, L.C. & D. Ry. Luncheons, dinners & teas served in the Pickwick Room. Billiards & pool, table by Burroughes & Watts. 'Clean & commodious' vide Pickwick. Telegrams- 'Pickwick, Cobham, Kent.'"
  The engraved trade card includes a small portrait of Dickens and a larger illustration of Samuel Pickwick addressing the Pickwick Club -- the latter copied faithfully from Robert Seymour's illustration in the Pickwick papers (1836). The Leather Bottle inn is described in chapter 11 of the novel, and Dickens was a frequent visitor there in the 1860s.
  
• Variant and related titles:Leather Bottle Hotel
  Dickens' old Pickwick, Leather Bottle Hotel
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Pickwick papers.
  Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Homes and haunts
  Leather Bottle (Cobham, England)
  Burroughes & Watts.
  Hotels--Great Britain.
  Taverns (Inns)--Great Britain.
  Tourism--Great Britain.
  Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1860-1870.
  
• Genre/Form:Trade cards (advertising)
  Printed ephemera.
  Engravings--1860-1870.
  
• Also listed under:Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, illustrator.