Bunhill Fields - Admit the Bearer to the Opening Ceremony on Thursday October 14th, 1869. At 3 O'Clock Precisely

[Ticket to the Opening of Bunhill Fields]

Verlag: Pardon and Son, London, 1869

Beschreibung

Double sided, lithographed ticket for the opening ceremony of Bunhill Fields cemetery, approximately 270mm x 190mm in size. Front with one or two tiny spots of foxing but is generally quite bright and clean, reverse with remnants of glue from once being stuck in an album, with some light discolouring and surface abrasion, but not affecting text. The reverse is a plan of the burial ground, with the location of prominent internees numbered (John Bunyan, Daniel De Foe, Richard Cromwell, Isaac Watts, Thomas Hardy, John Horne Tooke etc). It is the burial ground of Nonconformists. This 'opening ceremony', (it had already been in use for over two hundred years), was to celebrate the development of the site by the City of London. This involved laying out paths, undertaking tree planting and carrying out repair work to the tombs including re-cutting and recording inscriptions. For the printers, Pardon and Sons, see Bigmore and Wyman II:117 Size: 8vo (Oblong). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003736

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Bunhill Fields - Admit the Bearer to the ...

Verlag: Pardon and Son, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1869

Einband: Unbound

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First Edition.

Art des Buches: Ticket