Trade card: William Thorpp Book Seller in the Citty of Chester [manuscript], 1664.
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Trade card: William Thorpp Book Seller in the Citty of Chester [manuscript], 1664.
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1 item ; 13 x 9 cm
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Manuscripts (documents)
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 270968 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "Fine engraved trade card for William Thorpp ‘Book Seller in the Citty of Chester & are to be sould by him there, at his Shop at the hand & Bible, neere the high Crosse, & at the Stationers Armes, in the Watergate Street, where alsoe Books both new & Old are to bee bound and sold’. In the Catalogue of the Britwell Court Library, there is an example of this trade card, loosely inserted into a book, and noted as being engraved by Hollar. William Thropp (or Thorpe), was a stationer, bookseller and possibly a printer in Chester. He was admitted as a freeman 1654-5, and a member of the Stationers’ company in Oct. 1657. The trade card bears three shields of arms, upper left the City of Chester, upper right the Stationers’ Co., and, between and below, the arms of Thorpe (chechy, argent and sable, on a fesse or 3 martlets sable). Below these, a right hand extended towards a Bible bound and double clasped, and the initials ‘W T’. It is thought to be the earliest known specimen of Chester printing. " Ordered from Jarndyce, D 9279, 2019-02-01, Cat. Books & Pamphlets,1505-1833, item #219. Purchase made possible by The Eric and Mary Weinmann Acquisitions Fund.
Folger accession
270968