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Advertisements and Book Notices from Bowden and Local Shops
In this period notice a range of toy purchases and distribution by Bowden and others in Cornhill and Fleet Street. It lists Mr Paine at the Rose and Crown Pope's Head Alley St Pauls, Mr Bates Hat and Star against the Pump, Mr Merkham at Seven Stars Fleet Street, Mr Prescoate in Strand, Mr Mason near Spring Garden Charing Cross, and Bowden at Plough and Harrow Chancery Lane Fleet Street. Also mentions Queen's tax receipts, Rowe translations, Boileau works, and various other eighteenth century publications with prices and printing details. Next Thursday’s publishings include Callipedia and related poems, Epistles, Panegyrical Elegy, and Life by Bayle with frontispiece, plus other literary works and medical receipts. The page lists several booksellers and printers in Fleet Street, Strand, and Holborn.