PSHE FRIENDS and other works advertised in stationers catalog
An 18th century catalog ad lists multiple books and prices including PSHE FRIENDS or the Contrast between Virtue and Vice by Elizabeth Griffin, Fedaretta, The Rock, Alfred and Anna, Woman of Ten Thousand, The Art of Angling, The Gardener's Pocket Journal, The Death of Cain, Evans's Sketches, Evan's Juvenile Pieces, The History of the Reign of George the Third, Perouse's Voyage Round the World, with binding and edition details and prices all offered at Crosby and Letterman Stationers Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Griffin
C. Pr
Crosby and Letterman
Stationer’s Court
Faternofter-row
Fedaretta
Alfred and
Anna
Robert Best
Gardener's Pocket Journal
John Abercrombie
Cain
Evans
Evan
George the Third
R. Macfarlan
Perouse
Travels Through England Scotland to the Hebrides
The article reviews M. Faujas-Saint-Fond's tour through Great Britain and Ireland, detailing his aims to study science, arts, natural history, and manners. It highlights his observations on geology, industry, and British mineralogy, with notable notes on Berbyshire, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews, Inverary, and Staffa, and praises his candid, broad view of English life and science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Faujas-Saint-Fond
England
Scotland
Paris
Europe
M. Faujas
Great Britain
France
Berbyshire
Newcastle
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Perth
St. Andrews
Inverary
Dalmary
Oban
Argylshire
Fingal
Staffa
Ennant
Caledonia
London
Joseph Banks
Doors Whitehurst
Cavallo
Letiom
Sheldon
Arthur Young
China
Royal Society
Sir Joseph
Brouflonet
Offian
Highwaymen Executed at Chelmsford in Fourfold Sentence
Four highwaymen were executed at Chelmsford on Saturday. The group included James Robinson born Heydon Yorkshire a carpenter turned India House surveyor who later burgled Bethnal Green. His brother John Robinson 23, a carpenter, disclosed many London road robberies and tied to Haines Joe the hatter and the Frenches Thorpe. James Thompson alias James Carrol from Mile End Old Town, once a lawyer, served seven years on the Woolwich hulks and returned to robbing near Blackheath. James Meyrick 24, Tower Hamlets Militia veteran, joined the highwaymen and robbed Thomas Jeffop on the highway. All admitted their punishment and refused to name accomplices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chelmsford
James Robinson
Heydon
Hil
Yorkshire
London
India House
Robinson
Bazing-lane
Old Bailey
Bethnal Green
John Robinson
Haines
Bowstreet
Joe the Hatter
Hertford
Frenches
Thorpe
Kingston
James Thompson
Mile End Old Town
James Carrol
Woolwich
West Indies
Blackheath
James Meyrick
Tower Hamlets
Thomas Jeffop
Paris Man Lambert Laurent Sentenced for Poison Plot
A Paris man named Lambert Laurent was condemned to death for administering arsenic to two brothers and two sisters to gain their property. The siblings survive but are in great danger. Trial facts suggest he previously poisoned his father and mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Lambert Laurent
London Markets and Prices Reported at Smithfield and London
Market reports show plentiful grain supplies with varied prices across regions. Beef veal mutton pork and lamb listed at SMITHFIELD and NEWGATE LEADENHALL with specific per pound and per hundredweight figures. hay and straw prices in St James's and Whitechapel noted alongside tallow and candy prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithfield
Smiturerp
Newgate and
Leadenhall
London
St. James's Market
Clare Market
Whitechapel
Hay
Straw
Woman Rescued After Smuggling Run Ends Tragic
Maclane of Gosport known for supplying slops to the Queen Cuaxmorre went to Spithead with a waterman and his nephew. A sudden squall capsized their old boat and the man and boy drowned. The woman survived by buoying herself with hidden blackers used to smuggle liquor until a nearby transport ship aided her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maclane
Gosport
Jatt
Spithead
Serespory's Antiscorbutic Drops Promote Health on Voyages
To Merchants and the Public the proprietor reports from West Indies and America cases of scurvy rheumatism gout and related ailments relieved by Serespory's drops. The remedy is praised for restoring energy on long voyages, retaining virtue for years, and available at Dupensary Soho Square and through general patent medicine vendors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
West Indies
Serespory
Antiscorau Tic Dros
Dupensary
Soho Square
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Hebrides
B. Faujas-Saint-Fond
National Institute OF France
Museum OF Natural History
Adam Smith
Highland Society
Smith
Voltaire
Joseph II
Ferney
Peter I
Joseph
Roufeau
Rouffeau
London Markets
Kent
Doftor
Albion-ftrest
Leverian Museum
Blackfriars
Symonds
Pate
Cotter
Three Kingdoms
Pracus
J. W. Miysas
Dudler’s
Albion
Holborn
Gray's Inn
Jeboult and Co
Bacon
Oxford-street
Pidding's Medicine
Bulgin and Sheppard
Bristol
Baxer
Brown
Tolzey
Read
Winefreet
Pristol
M‘donald
Chalmers
Aberdeen
Biam
Draggit
Portsmouth
Bray
Sunterland
Turtt’s
Rover Exchange
Williams
Perfumer
Palmal
Oton
Royal Exchange
Colling
Salisbury
Crutwell
Bath
Gickland
Portsea
Shaw
High-street
Borough
Spilsbury & Cr
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