[Rarebooks] FS: Ca.1810 Plate Glass Sale Broadside

Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA office at joslinhall.com
Fri Apr 27 11:07:47 EDT 2007


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"TERMS OF SALE, AUTHORIZED BY THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE PLATE GLASS
MANUFACTURERS"  [London] C. Wood, Printer, Poppin’s Court, Fleet Street.
No date. Ca.1810.

A single letterpress sheet, specifying trade terms for “Town Customers”
(London) and “Country Customers”. The main terms deal with the size of
orders requiring cash payment, and those eligible for longer terms. The
additional terms for Country Customers were that The Company would not
guaranty the “safe arrival of any glass”, but would offer insurance at a
rate of 5 percent within ten miles of London and ten per cent for all
others. The Company at the time was located at “Albion Place, Blackfriars
Bridge”.

Single sheet. 7.75”x9.75”, letterpress printed on laid paper, watermarked
T. Edmonds. Folded, and with a half-inch by quarter-inch ink stain in the
upper portion which is mirrored on the lower portion; soil along on edge,
lightly browned on the other edge, but otherwise clean and unworn. [30851]
$150.00


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