Engrav'd Cards of Trades-men in the County of Yorkshire
Details:
- Author(s) Friedman, Terry
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1976
- Pages 33pp; illus
- Publisher Leeds Art Galleries
- Place Published Leeds
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- Name Advertising media
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Exhibition catalogue relating to an exhibition of trade cards of the Georgian and Victorian periods notable for their design as much as for their information content. Covers 59 cards for a wide range of trades in Yorkshire, each card being illustrated: - printers; booksellers & binders; painters; carvers, guilders & decorators; cabinetmakers and upholders; clockmaker; chinaman; silversmiths & cutlers; grocers and tea dealers; wine & spirit merchant; confectioner; tobacco and snuffman; tailors & haberdashers; mercers & drapers; machine manufacturers [millwrights]; cloth manufacturers; saddlers; genteel arts; braziers & ironmongers; innkeepers. Provides insights into advertising