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Author/Creator:Packwood, George.
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Title:Packwood’s address, he's not lesser, a perfumer than hair-dresser.
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Publication:[London] : W. Bailey, printer [...], [1788]
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Physical Description:1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 1 wood engraving ; 20.4 x 16 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: File 66 788 P119
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Notes:For further information, consult library staff.
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Provenance:James Burmester; December 2021.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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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.
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References:English short title catalogue, T43542
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Subjects:Hairdressing--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Wigs.
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Genre/Form:Advertisements.
Ephemera.
Wood engravings.
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Also listed under:Bailey, W. (Printer)
England--London.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16092700