Printed Advertisement Leaf, with illustration.

Dimensions roughly six inches by three and a half. Wormed (but only affecting two letters of text) on aged paper. One page, blank reverse. Wood cut at head, roughly one and a quarter inches square, illustrating a leather-bound book with clasps. Thirty-three lines of text, beginning 'At the Bible in Newgate-street, over against the Blue-Coat Hospital Gate. | Liveth William and Joseph Marshall, Bookseller and Stationer: Where is a Warehouse, and is sold all sorts of Paper-Hangings, by Wholesale or Retale, very delightful for Rooms or Closets, of the newest invention of Figures, as Irish and Diamond-stitch, Carpit or Turky, and Forest-work, &c. [...] Likewise Bibles, Testaments, Psalters, Catechisms, Spelling-books, Accidences, Grammars, Rich's Short-hand with his Testament and Singing-Psalms, and other Short-hand books, and most sorts of Books, either School-books or others: [...] And you may have Bills, Bonds, or Funeral Tickets. Printed at reasonable rates.' Also medical preparations, sreens, stationery, etc. Also three works by Henry Playford. From the BBTI it would seem that William Marshall traded from 1669 to 1725, from 1700 with his son Joseph, who traded alone after his father's death until at least 1734.