Description

[004480] [Sewing Thread Trade Card] Rowe’s Manufactory for Patent Cotton Sewing Threads. ill. Kent. London: No Publisher, First Edition. 32mo. Unbound. Trade Card. Good. Printed trade card, approximately 75mm x 105mm in size, n.d.

Lightly browned, minor surface soiling, slight signs of old glue marks to reverse, but generally fairly clean

Engraved by Kent of Holborn, possibly William Kent (see Alexander, A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers, 1714-1820, page 520). At 56 High Street, the street from Oxford Street to St. Giles Church, Bloomsbury, London

Advertises “Rowe’s Manufactory for Patent Cotton Sewing Threads… Ladies will find an infinite advantage by making use of his Patent Sewings & Wire Thread, the strength & uniformity renders it far Superior to any thing of the kind ever yet offered to Public Notice. Tambour Netting, Lace, Trafalgar Knitting & India Cottons only. If not approved of exchanged or the Money returned. The Trade supplied on the most advantageous Terms.”

In the Heal collection (Heal,116.6)