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Advertisement for the celebrated spa’s summer Fetes des Fleurs.

Marquet Ink. Advertisement designed by Eugene Grasset. Known as the Father of Art Nouveau, Grasset’s ‘Maidens’ became emblematic of the style.

Advertisement for the hotel near the popular church of Saint-Jean du Doigt on the coast of Brittany.

Poster by Louis Rhead.

Pas de gai Reveillon by Charles Lemmel.

Lincoln Motor Company. Green Chassis.

The penalty of success.

Orginally known as ‘House of Commons’, here with a Polo player leading the field.

1895 cover by the typographer Will Bradley for the American trade journal The Inland Printer.

Fashionable girl watering a flower pot. Cover page after the renowned Art Deco poster artist Rene Vincent.

The Little Green Man or The Bath Bugaboo. Henry Cope, an eccentric from Bath who always dressed in green, only ate green vegetables and even had green furniture, was known for trying to engage fashionable ladies in conversation.

Advertisement for the freight company’s new London route for perishables. After Gustave Fraipont.

Cover by the illustrator Albert Morrow.

Ce qu’on ne verra jamais… (What we will never see on the 1st of May, workers’ day, is a dancers’ strike). After A Vallee.

Fruit crate label for Californian apples.

Seule Antiseptique en Vente Parout. Advertisement by the impressionist painter Leo Gausson.

Sherry’s Plan of Economy or the Speaker travelling in stile. The speaker in a donkey cart. Sherry refers to Richard Sheridan, famous playwright and Whig politician.

Automobiles: Talbot All British Invincible. Advertisement with Britannia, John Bull and a British Bulldog for the Talbot motorcar stand at Olympia.

Designed by Herbert McNair, Margaret and Francis MacDonald, who with Charles Rennie MacIntosh were known as ‘The Four’ of Scottish Art Nouveau.

The Fathers’ Match abandoned or another Reputation saved

Announcement for four varieties of Indian Tea – Zenana, Palais Indien, Maharala and Grand Mogul.

The Illustrious Lover or the D_ of Cumberland done over. With a military reputation for courage, the Duke of Cumberland was staunchly anti-Catholic and held great influence over his brother George IV.

Old Underoof Whiskey from Chas. Dennehy & Co. Chicago.

Longchamp Racecourse. Advertisement for the prestigious Prix de la Porte Maillot.

Poster for the display ‘Behind the Scenes of the Opera’. Named for its first director Alfred Grevin, the Musée is the oldest wax museum in Europe.

Read Compare and Judge, or the Freedom of Election Exemplified Sir Francis Burdett was returned as MP Middlesex in 1802, which was declared void in favour of George Mainwaring and then amended in 1805 by which time Burdett had decided to leave politics.

In a Class by Themselves. With silver highlighting.

West Indies, Africa and the Mediterranean.

Texas Vegetables. Crate label.

The successful Party at Tooting, at Mayfair.

Texas Vegetables. Crate label.

Woolsey Limousine. Entourage.

Pressed Steel Company.

Ford Cars. ‘Enduring Charm’ slogan and river scene.

I remember in 1870: London clubmen in war-time parading for practise in writing to the papers.

Skiing Cartoon: Winter sports in Switzerland. ‘They say it’s not really complicated’.

Chap Book Thanksgiving Number. Cover for the short lived American Literary magazine.

Exposition of Henri-Gabriel Ibels, member of Les Nabis (The Prophets), an influential group of vant Garde artists.

Cover by Hyland Ellis.

Advertisement for popular singers by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, an artist of the Montmartre circle.

Advertisement for the Drury Lane pantomime by Dudley Hardey, a pioneer of the ‘artistic poster’ which was seen to elevate the genre.

Cover for the satirical German weekly by Thomas Theodore Heine.

Christmas Novelties. Cases, shaving kit, poker chip stands, reference libraries, watches and clocks

De Vere Jones makes some alterations pending the tax collector’s visit. After the satirist David Wilson.

Playtime at Broadcasting House.

By the Art Noveou artist and interior designer Henri Privat-Livemont.

Norway, the Baltic and the Mediterranean.

Depicting a scene from the Viktor Jose novel with the courtesan Alice Lamy, Baron de Rozenfeld and Lord Bath in the Cafe Anglais.

J. M. Fenders. A Bumper of Beauty at Last.

Ought we to call? Uncertainty in the Caravan park.

PAIR. Were they touching I.

Humourous road map from Henley to Amersham to Wembley, and from Henley to Egham to Hyde Park. After James Fitton and H.J Hutchinson.

l’Opera International advertisement for the Gala of the History of Theatre 1886 by Eugene Grasset.

Advertisement for an exhibition by the artists’ group Le Sillon by Fernand Toussaint.

Henri-Gabriel Ibels: Poster for the artist’s expostion at la Bodiniere. Ibels was a member of Les Nabis (The Prophets), an influential group of Avant Garde artists.

British and French soldiers toasting Christmas.

Ukiyo-e advertisement for Kubuki Theatre.Samurai and Priests.

Suffolk rats protecting their cheese or the County Fencibles called to Arms. Fencibles were Army regiments raised during threats of invasion.

In 1802 Sir Francis Burdett a populist MP was returned as MP Middlesex, in 1804 declared void in favour of George Mainwaring and then amended in 1805 by which time Burdett had decided to leave politics.

Advertisement for the New York City theatre on Madison Avenue and 27th Street opened in 1890.

Cover for the Women’s edition by the American illustrator A.R. Gifford.

London Stock Exchange: Satirical map depicting the major trading sectors including Oil, Insurance, Rubber, Tea, and Railways.

Christmas Novelties. Cases, brushes, jewellery, clocks and purses.

Advertisement for the Exposition of Eugene Grasset, one of the great innovators of Art Nouveau design.

London Midland and Scottish Railway. “The West Coast is the Best Coast, The Warmer Side of Britain”.

PAIR: Were they touching II.

Aperitif digestif. Maison de Vent.

Christmas edition by the Art Noveau artist Eugene Grasset.

Advertisement for the popular concert hall’s production of George Bertrand’s Animated Puppets, by Cheret.

Advertisement poster designed by the sequential illustrator Henri Gerbault.

Cover by Dudley Hardy for the illustrated weekly.

Pressed Steel Company, Oxford: Less Weight – More Strength – with P. S. C. one-piece construction.

Part of the ‘Four Arts’ experimental series by Jules Cheret.

Part of the “Four Arts” experimental series by Cheret.

Ukiyo-e advertisement for Kubuki Theatre. Audience with the Master.

Crate label.

By the acclaimed artist Dudley Hardy.

Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin. Advertisement for Victorien Sardou’s life of the Byzantine Empress Theodora played by Sarah Bernhard. Designed by Manuel Orazi and August Francois-Mariet Gorguet.

The Bath Revolution, or the King Deposed; James Heaven, master of the Lower Rooms, attempted to depose James King as Bath’s Master of Ceremonies. Rear-Admiral Stanhope and Colonel Strode were included in the committee formed to support King.

With James Tissot’s painting Holyday.

Dressing Cases.

Ukiyo-e advertisement for Kubuki Theatre. Winter Garden.

Why not live in the Country?: After Henry Bateman.

International Sleeping Car & European Express Train to the Rivera.

In 1802 the MP for Middlesex Sir Francis Burdett was returned, however this was overturned two years later in favour of George Mainwaring, considered a puppet of William Pitt.

Fruit Jelly with serving suggestions.