Description

[003351] [Wesleyan Chapel Ticket]. Members Gallery Ticket for Wesley’s City Road Chapel. ill. Tyler (Sculp.). No Place: No Publisher, 1840. First Edition. 64mo (Oblong). Unbound. Ticket. Good+. Single sided engraved ticket, approximately 75mm x 55mm in size, n.p. but almost certainly London.

Possibly very slightly cropped, reverse with remnants of coloured paper where removed from an album.

Dated 1840, (but the design is earlier as we have seen another dated 183-), with this being numbered 84.

The front seats around the gallery of the City Road Chapel were “reserved for Ministers who are Members of the Society, and who will be admitted to them by Tickets, for which they are requested to apply at the Mission-House, Austin Friars, on the preceding Tuesday and Wednesday”, (Missionary Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, 1829), this presumably being one of those tickets, though issued for the year rather than the week.

Attractively produced, engraved by Tyler