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    • Author/Creator:Packwood, George.
    • Title:Packwood’s address, he's not lesser, a perfumer than hair-dresser.
    • Publication:[London] : W. Bailey, printer [...], [1788]
    • Physical Description:1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 1 wood engraving ; 20.4 x 16 cm
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    • Notes:Caption title.
      An advertisement in verse, with two columns of letterpress text beginning "With humblest deference we greet ..."; wood-engraved illustration at top depicting two ladies trying on wigs both facing a bust with "Princes' Royal" on plinth; an "Explanation" printed below in five lines; all within a typographic ornament border.
      Date of publication from English short title catalogue.
      Printer prossibly W. Bailey located at 28 Great Tower Street, London. Cf. Heal, 99.22 & 23 advertise "At Bailey's Printing-Office... Shop-Bills, Hand-Bills, &c. of this Size and Paper, are printed for six Shillings a Thousand; and on an inferior Paper of this Size, for five Shillings a Thousand ..."
      Sheet trimmed with loss of most of the imprint.
    • Format:Book
    • References:English short title catalogue, T43542
    • Subjects:Hairdressing--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
      Wigs.
    • Genre/Form:Advertisements.
      Ephemera.
      Wood engravings.
    • Also listed under:Bailey, W. (Printer)
      England--London.