Category Archives: Regency Advertisements

Regency Advertisements: Elizabeth Eagleton, Lady Tea and Spice Dealer

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great saring to Families and the Public in the of Teas sold genuine of the best and finest quality by ELIZABETH EAGLETON TEA AND SPICE DEALER No 83 Newgate Street London for Ready Money Best Bohea Congou Leaf Congou capital dilto good Soucbong very fine ditto superfine Padra super Fine Caper Green or Twankay Tea good Green Bloom Hyson fine dit n superfine ditto Gunpowder ditto Martinico Coffee fine Grenada ditto fine Bourbon dito genuine Turkey ditto Good plain Chocolate bet Plain ditio Sir Hans Sloane

This ad appeared in the October 1806 edition of La Belle Assemblee: Oh, how I would love to know more about Elizabeth and her life.  Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Edward Orme’s Transparencies

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Edward Orme

  Edward Orme was a Regency era engraver, publisher and real estate developer, who made the genre of transparent prints popular through the above advertised title (https://www.princeton.edu/~graphicarts/2009/09/edward_ormes_transparent_print.html).  Author Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Hermit Position

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English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, 1875 Likely this young man was interested in being a garden or ornamental hermit.  These hermits lived in hermitages, follies, grottoes Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Attention Drawing Masters, Governesses, and Preceptors of Youth in General

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Appeared in the November 1817 issue of Ackermann’s Repository.  I love also the ad for the Lady and Gentleman’s Polite Assistant!