Clerk Printer (2 results)

Folio, 4 pp. Bifolium. On laid paper. The drophead title (of which the start is quoted above) runs to 14 lines. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Printed in double column. Yeoman signs in type at the end of the document, which contains three reports, each signed in type by the chairman of the committee which produced it: Mauleverer for the Visiting Justices; Lockwood for the Finance Committee; and Johnstone for the Committee of Visitors of the Noth and East-Ridings' Lunatic Asylum. Includes itemised 'Victualling Account', the 'General Gaol Accounts for the Quarter', 'Bridge Master's Accounts', 'Treasurer's Account', 'The Bridge Surveyor's Accounts', 'The Accounts Connected with the Clerk of the Peace's Office'. These include such items as £10 6s 6d to 'Thomas Hamilton, for Leather for Prisoners' Clogs', and £2 3s 0d to 'Rachael Wilkinson, for cleaning Court House, lighting Fires, and getting in Coals'. The document ends with a notice and eleven orders.

Condition: Good. Lithograph. Partly handcoloured. 29.5 x 20.5cm. sheet size. Tipped on support sheet. .Inscribed with caption and publishing details: "Published by O. Hodgson, 111 Fleet Street" and "Lithographed by W. Clerk, 202 High Holborn".British Museum Museum number 1952,0517.111:A beggar singing from a song-sheet while policemen round up vagrants in the street behind and herd them towards a prison. later 1830s.