The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 1

The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 1

Rudolph Ackermann, London

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brown leather spine, marbled paper covers. Six monthly numbers, 500 pages. Illustrations include, title page and: No. I: January: Method of Making Coffee in Germany (woodcut vignette), p. 19; Method for unrolling Herculaneaum papyri at Portici (woodcut vignette), p. 20; Mourning Ring of William III (woodcut vignette), p. 23; Plate 1a: Ladies' Walking Dress, p. 52; Plate 1b, and Ladies' Evening Full Dress, p. 53; Plate 2: Interior of Ackermann's Repository of Arts, the Strand (Pugin and Rowlandson delt.; shows prints offered for sale), p. 55; Plate 3: Chaise Longue and Window-seat, p. 55; Plate 4: British Sports by Howitt (title image for series, show game next to a boulder), p. 56; ; Allegorical woodcut with four British textiles, p. 58 (no. 1 red silk plush manufactured from mohair, for gentlemen's vests, sold by Mr. Smith, Prince's' Street, Soho, Mssrs. Maunds, Cornhill, and principal mercers; no. 2: gold colored velvet described in the mantle of the morning dress, plate 1, sold by D. and P. Cooper, Pall Mall; no. 3: pattern of brocade or tissue, very much worn for pelisses, from Robarts, Plowman, and Snuggs, Chandos Street, Covent Garden; no. 4: new flowered satin for evening dresses, furnished by Harris, Moody, and Co., Pall Mall; the last three manufactured at Spitalfields). No. II: February: Plate 8: Pointers, by Howitt, p. 95; Plate 7: Interior of Wedgwood & Byerley's Rooms, York Street, St. James's (trimmed, but likely after Pugin and Rowlandson; selling china), p. 102; The Horned Heifer (woodcut vignette), p. 121; Plate 5: Ladies' Half-dress, p. 122; Plate 6: Ladies' Dancing dress, p. 123; Plate 9: Patent Landau, p. 124; Allegorical woodcut with four British textiles, p. 124 (rich figured satins worn at court on her majesty's birthday, no. 1: pattern worn by the Duchess of Chandos, supplied by Messrs. Roberts, Plowman and Snuggs, No. 1 Chandos Street; no. 2: gold figured satin worn by the Countess Rothsay, the Viscountss Sudley and others, furnished by Messrs. D. and P. Cooper, Pall Mall; no. 3: pattern of Bishop's blue bombazeen, become fashionable for morning dreses, furnished by Mssrs. Archer and Houghton, Henrietta street, Covent Garden; no. 4: pattern of silk striped shawl, fashinable for gentlemen's waistcoats, manufactured in Yorkshire, Wiltshire and Spitalfields, of silk and wool, furnished by Messrs. James, Thomas, and Joseph Kesteven). No. III: March: Plate 8: Two Setters, by Howitt, p. 155; Pyropneumatic Apparatus (woodcut vignette), p. 162; Facsimile of a Latin Poem found at Herculaneum, p. 180; Plate 10: Ladies' Polish Walking dress, p. 185; Plate 11: Ladies' Opera dress, p. 186; Plate 12: Mssrs. Harding, Howell & Co.'s Grand Fashionable Magazine, No. 89 Pall Mall (textiles offered for sale), p. 187; Plate 14: Ladies' Secretaire and Parlour Chair (G. Smith), p. 188; Allegorical woodcut with four British textiles, p. 189 (four patterns of British manufacture for ladies' attire furnished by Mssrs. Harding, Howell, and Co. of Pall Mall, no 1: Anglo-Merino cloth, no. 2: Queen's silk, no. 3: new satin twilled silk, no. 4: Persian double silk). No. IV: April: Map of the Crimea, p. 232; Plate 18: Spaniels, by Howitt, p. 238; Plate 15: Ladies' Full Dress, p. 248; Plate 16: Ladies' Walking Dress, p. 249; Plate 17: Mssrs. Lackington, Allen & Co. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square (books offered for sale), p. 251; Plate 19: bound into May number, p. 330; Allegorical woodcut with three British textiles, p. 255 (no. 1 and 2: new description of furniture calicoes in novel scarlet and grey blue, manufacturerd by Mr. Allen, No. 61 Pall Mall, no. 3: Scotia silk, manufactured in Scotland, mixture of cotton and silk, introduced by Mrs. James, 15 New Bridge Street, Fleet Street, no. 4: spotted mulsin, furnished by Mssrs. T. and J. Smith and Co. No. 34, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden). No. V: May: Plate 20: Water Spaniels, by Howitt, p. 305; Plate 21: Sofa or French Bed, p. 328; Plate 22: Mssrs. Pellatt & Green's Glass & China Ware Shew Rooms, St. Paul's Churchyard, p. 330, p. 328; Plate 23: Ladies' Ball Dress, p. 328; Plate 24: Ladies' Walking Dress, p. 329; Plate 19: Fashionable Window Curtain designed by Mr. Allen of Pall Mall, p. 330; Allegorical woodcut with four British textiles, p. 332 (no. 1: Adairian dot for ladies' morning dresses, manufactured in the north of England, and furnished by Mrs. Thomas and Co., corner of Chancery Lane; no. 2: white and lilac figured sarnet, for pelisses, manufactured by Harris, Meody & Co., Pall Mall, no. 3: Turkish figured gauze, for dresses, furnished by the manufacturers Robarts, Plowman, and Snuggs, of Chandos Street, Covent Garden; 4: printed India rib, sold by Mssrs. Keseven and Co. York Street, Covent Garden ); advertisements: Allen, New Furniture Warehouse, 61 Pall Mall; Price & Co. Chemists & Druggists, Great Russell Street, Covent Garden (exterior). No. VI: June: Plate 25: Red grouse, by Howitt, p. 378; Plate 28: Ladies Walking dresses (two ladies and a child), p. 396; Plate 29: Ladies Promenade dress, p. 397; Plate 27: Carlton House, p. 398; Plate 26: Grecian Style Dejeuner or Work-Table, Footstool, Drawing-Room Tabouret and Fauteuil, p. 400; Allegorical woodcut with three British textiles, 400 (1 & 2: new cotton for furniture "Oriental Pink", no. 3: lilac spotted gossamer for dresses, furnished by Mssrs. Coopers, silk mercers to His Majesty, 28 Pall Mall, no. 4 white and green coral figured silk for mantles and pelisses). Supplement: Plan of Martinique, p. 449; Plate 33: Fashinable Head Dresses, p. 494; Lord Cochrane (R. Cooper sc.), p. 495.

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