An incredable snapshot of the late 18th century in the form ...

Hammer

£620

An incredable snapshot of the late 18th century in the form of a newspaper scrap book, containing reports on Admiral Horatio Nelson; Lyrical ode's by Peter Pindar to WIlliam pitt (amongst others); Exihibition advertisments for the 'Wonderful Signor Gulielma Pittachio,' at the Grand Hall of Exhibition, Westminster, featuring Astonishing and Magnificent Deceptions, a magical alarm bell, and His own Memory; Bettison's Address to the Nobility and Gentry of Margate; Answers to Eliza; Manifesto and Declaration of War against the French, by His Catholic Majesty; Actual Existence of the Salamander; A Letter from an Attorney on his Circuit to his mistress in Town; With many elegies, epitaphs, odes and letters to editors. *A Whimsical Baptism- "A Whimsical fellow, whose surname was France, brought his child to be baptized, some years ago, at Walsall. When the Clergyman asked the father to name his child, he said- King of. The Minister objected to this name, and the father, with much reluctance, substituted that of Britain- so that his son was called Britain France."