Printed Victorian advertising handbill for 'Dispensing Chymist' Keith Longstaff of Fulham Road, London.
Author:
Keith Longstaff, Dispensing Chymist [Chemist], Fulham, London [Victorian advertising]
Publication details:
No date [1890s]. Keith Longstaff, Dispensing Chymist. Depot for New & Rare Drugs. 3, Hilton Terrace, Fulham Rd. [London.]
£95.00
SKU: 10390
12mo, 2 pp. Aged, and with a small hole worn into the centre, without, however, any loss of text. With one side of the leaf printed in double column in the style of an eighteenth-century newspaper, and headed 'Quaint Newspaper Cuttings A.D. 1738. | Ye Fulhame Presse London. S.W.' The other side is laid out to be folded twice, making four small pages (one having 'Not to be cut.' at the foot). One of the four carries an advertisement for Longstaff, with an engraving of his sign, 'Ye stille'. Another puffs 'Keith Longstaff's Autumn Medicine'. Longstaff's 'advertising literature' was notices in the Pharmaceutical Journal, 1896, as 'well adapted to serve the desired purpose'. Slightly reminiscent in its effects of the Leadenhall Press.