A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.Sampson, Henry
History
A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.
Sampson, Henry
Advertising -- History
The above Gloves are prepared and sold only by Warren & Co.,
Perfumers, at the Golden Fleece, in Marybone Street, Golden Square, at
5s. a pair, who import, make and sell, all sorts of perfumery Goods,
in the utmost perfection. The Violet-Cream Pomatum, and celebrated
quintessence of Lavender, by no other person.
☞ Ladies sending their servants are humbly desired to send a Glove of
the size.
_N.B._--Just landed, a fine parcel of the famous _India_ Pearl.
⁂ The Queen’s Royal Marble, at 20s., and Chinese Imperial Wash ball,
at 5s., that are so well known to the Nobility, &c. Ladies’ Masks and
Tippets.
All this effort at decoration and beautifying is very wrong, but we are
stopped in our desire to “improve the occasion” by the recollection that
no age has been more deep in the mysteries of cosmetic, enamel, pearl
powder, and paint than our own, in which quacks abound, and old ladies
have been known to submit themselves to the operation of being made
beautiful, not for all time, but for ever. A little further on, in the
_Evening Post_, we come upon an ambitious author who has attempted to
regenerate the drama, and who advertises his work. Shakespeare seems
always to have been considered capable of improvement by somebody, but
as the mania for touching the immortal bard up, and making him
respectable and fit for the understandings of small tradesmen, still
goes on, and fortunes are made at it, we will give the following without
comment, lest some original author of the present day might think we
were obliquely alluding to him:--
_In the press and shortly will be published_
THE Students, a Comedy, altered from Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour Lost,
and adapted to the stage, with an original Prologue and Epilogue.
Printed for Thomas Hope, opposite the north gate of the Royal
Exchange, Threadneedle St.
Deserters are plentiful about this period, our soldiers, however brave
they may have been when put to it, having an evident objection to the
pomp and circumstance of war. That was, perhaps, because their share of
the latter was unduly large as compared with their participation in the
former. The following is from _Lloyd’s Evening Post_ of April 26-28, and
is a fair specimen of the remainder:--
_Deserted_
FROM the 16th Regiment of Dragoons, Captain Walmesly’s troop,
WILLIAM BEVEN,
Aged 16 years, about five feet five inches high, stoops a good deal as
he walks, and but very indifferently made; absented himself from his
Quarters last Saturday night, the 17th instant; he says he was born in
the parish of the _Hays_, in the County of Brecknockshire, and by
trade a labourer; he went away with a light horse man’s cap, a coarse
red frock faced with black, a striped flannel waistcoat, and a pair of
leather breeches.
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