~ 1757 ~

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Source:

Title: Trade card
Author: -
Publisher: -
Printer: John Leake
Illustrator: -
Engraver: John Leake
Location: London
Year: ~ 1757 ~ (Approximately, not after 1758)
Links: [Scan], [Original].

Comments:

The text on the engraving states: ‘At the two presses in St. John’s Street near Hicks’s Hall. London. Where Gentlemen, Tradesmen & Others, may be supply’d with all sorts of LETTER PRESS PRINTING likewise Copper Plates neatly Engrav’d and printed by John Leake’.

The description in the Lewis Walpole Library (Yale University) states: ‘A collection of English engraved advertisements, trade cards, invitations to society functions, and bookplates probably compiled around 1758 by F. [ or T.?] Legge of St. James's Market and mounted in an album, with five later items laid-in.’