Ephemera.- Eclectic collection, including: Georgian Printer.- David Barclay (1729-1809), banker and brewer, autograph letter signed to James Phillip, printer, of George Yard, Lombard Street, 1p., 8vo, Walthamstow, 22nd June 1796, "Please to deliver to William Batton or bearer the plate for his card", fold; [Child lying in front of a fireplace], monochrome wash watercolour, one corner slightly creased, 153 x 184mm., n.d. [c. 1830]; A Radical, picture of a man holding a spear and the words "suffrage and liberty" in his hat, pen and ink drawing, n.d. [c. 1830]; and c. 30 pieces, including a "Alphabetical Roll of Capt Sawers Troop Dundalk... 1848", and a signed menu with an engraved pictorial head for Hatchett's Restaurant, Piccadilly, 3rd March 1913, v.s., v.d., 18th - 20th centuries (c. 30).
⁂ First mentioned, David Barclay, one of the originators of Barclays Bank, with others bought the Anchor Brewery in Southwark from Mrs Hester Thrale. This became Barclay, Perkins & Co., one of the three great London breweries of the nineteenth century.
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