['Gordon Adams' The "Kensington" Pianoforte and Music Warehouse and Theatre Box Office.'] Attractive Victorian advertising booklet [by Banbury printers Cheney & Sons], with gold border on blue and pink paper.

8pp., landscape 12mo. Unbound stapled pamphlet. Printed in blue ink on paper which is blue on one side and pink on the other. Nearly fine. Blue covers, printed in fancy type, with the text on the front within a decorative gold border, reading: 'Music Library. | GORDON ADAMS, | 100, High Street, Kensington, | OPPOSITE STATION. | Tickets for every Theatre. Seats on Sale. | And at 9, Old Bond St., and 137, New Bond St. | Agent: Sun Insurance.' Table on p.2 headed 'Concert Parties, Quadrille Bands & Pianists provided | For mistresses and servants: table of expenses, income, and wages.' P.3 advertises 'Pianofortes on sale or hire'. P.4: 'Tunings'. P.5: 'Gordon Adams' Music Library'. P.6: 'Theatre Box Office | Interest table for savings, investments, &c.' P.7: 'Gordon Adams' Music Library | All Music at Store Prices | Tickets for every Theatre.' P.8 (back cover): advertisement for 'Vienna & Bond Street | Robes. | Josephine Maria | 100, High St Kensington | (opposite station.) | Kensington Branch of the Vienna Simplified Method of Dressmaking. | Perfect Knowledge Guaranteed in Twelve Lessons. | Ladies' Own material from one guinea'. Scarce: no copy traced on either COPAC or WorldCat. The printers' details are not given, but the item comes from the archive of Cheney & Sons, 'General, Commercial & Artistic Printers, Banbury'. (John Cheney's calling card describes him as a 'Printer in Gold, Silver, and Colours', with 'Specialities in the best class of work.') For more about the firm see 'John Cheney and his descendants, printers in Banbury since 1767' (1936) and the Victoria County History volume for the County of Oxford, Banbury Hundred.