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PROSPECTUS
OF
A NEW MONTHLY WORK,
The Repository
OF
ARTS, LITERATURE, COMMERCE,
MANUFACTURES, FASHIONS, & POLITICS.
No.I.
Was published on the 2d Day of January, 1809, and is continued on or
before the first of every succeeding Month,
By R. ACKERMANN, 101, STRAND,
Where Communications (Post paid) will be thankfully received.
This Work may be had of all the Print and Book-sellers, Postmasters, Clerks of the Roads, Newsmen, Stationers, &c. in the United Kingdom.
———Price 4s.
———Price 4s.
CONDITIONS.
The Work shall be printed on a fine large wove Royal Paper; and be ready for Delivery the first Day of every Month.
Each Number shall contain sixty-four Pages of Letter-Pres:, printed with a new Type, cast on Purpose;———also,
Four elegant, coloured Plates, designed and executed by Artists of the first Eminence; and one Wood-Cut, by Charles Nesbitt.
In order to induce the Public to examine this Work, and to enable them fairly to appreciate whatever Claims it may have to their Patronage, the Publisher respectfully invites them to become Purchasers of the first Number; assuring them, if (from any Consideration whatever) they are not perfectly satisfied, the Money shall be repaid, upon their returning it, in good Condition, before the Publication of the second.
LIST OF PLATES IN EACH NUMBER.
- &2. Ladies' fashionable Dresses, designed, engraved, and coloured by the first Artists.
- Fashionable Furniture, or fashionable Carriages, or new Implements of Husbandry, Manufacture, &c.
- Inside View of a fashionable Magazine or Shop, with figures, drawn by Rowlandson and Pugin.
- Sporting Subject, Game, Dogs, Horses, &c.
- A beautiful Wood-Cut, with real Patterns of the most fashionable Articles, such as Velvets, Silks, Cloths, Printed Kerseymeres, Muslins, Cambrics, and evrey new and fancy Article of British Manufacture employed in Ladies' or Gentlemen's Dresses, or in fashionable Furniture.
