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A new prognostication, for the year of our redemption, 1678, being the second after bissextile, or leap year : Most curiously and artificially calculated, for all north-Brittain, but more especially (and even according to every typographer's very bound duty) for the latitude and meridian of our most famous city of Bon-Accord. Which stands upon a pleasant lone, whose gallant dykes, are Dee and Done. / by A. R. A.M. an expert mathematician.
A. R. (Mathematician), active 1678.Date: 1678
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Bartholomew Fair, site of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, pictured in 1721. Aquatint with etching after T. Loggon, c. 1824 (?).
Loggon, T.Date: [1824?]Reference: 23495i
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
Philips WouwermanDate: 1743Reference: 20496i
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A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.
Charles PearsDate: 1912Reference: 15398i
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The Chapmans and travellers almanack for the year of Christ 1694 : wherein all the post roads, with their several branches and distances, the marts, fairs, and markets in England and Wales, and alphabetically disposed in every month ... : to which is added a table of accounts ready cast up ... and other tables and things, useful for all travellers, traders, or chapmen whatsoever : also, the rising and setting of the sun and motions of the tides, and whatsoever else is necessary for an annual almanack.
Date: 1694
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A bustling country fair full of stalls of people selling their wares. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1788, after A. Ostade.
Adriaen van OstadeDate: 1788Reference: 20505i
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Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths with drums, whips, etc: a mounted policeman moves through the throng. Wood engraving.
Reference: 33084i
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Bartholomew Fair, London: scene of night-time revelry at the fair in Smithfield, outside St Bartholomew's Hospital. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after A. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1808.
Thomas RowlandsonDate: 1 February 1808Reference: 22172i
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A couple sit laughing in a bumper car at a fair with the words "Saturday Night Fever"; an advertisement for safe sex by the Senatsverwaltung für Gesundheit und Soziales and Senatsverwaltung für Frauen, Jugend und Familie, Berlin. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674091i
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A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.
Bartolomeo PinelliDate: 1821Reference: 20995i
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares as part of a performance on stage, at a gigantic travelling country fair known as the Fiera dell' Impruneta. Etching by J. Callot.
Jacques CallotReference: 20443i
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Barret, Robert
Barret, RobertDate: c. 1660Reference: MS.1070
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
Philips WouwermanDate: 1743Reference: 21185i
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of assistants and snakes to a captivated audience, Tianjin, China. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1858, after T. Allom.
Thomas AllomDate: 1858Reference: 21435i
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Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.
Thomas RowlandsonDate: 6 March 1800]Reference: 20582i
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A new fairing for the merrily disposed:, or, The comical history of the famous Merry Andrew / W. Phill---. ; Giving an account of his pleasant humours, various adventures, cheats, frolicks, & cunning designs both in city and country.
Phillips, WilliamDate: 1688
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By the King : the spreading of the infection in our citie of London, and in the places next about it, doeth giue vs iust cause to be as prouident as a carefull prince can bee, to take away all occasion of increasing the same.
England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)Date: Anno 1603
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Hall Place, Kent: fête for the benefit of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Coloured lithograph by W. Burgess after himself.
Burgess, W.Date: 1857Reference: 18043i
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The perpetual fair : gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London / Anne Wohlcke.
Wohlcke, AnneDate: 2014
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Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths, eating, etc.: the twin domes of Greenwich Hospital are visible in the background. Wood engraving by [I.B.] after Findlay.
Reference: 33083i
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A quack doctor and a dissenting parson selling their respective goods from a fairground booth. Coloured etching, 1795.
Date: Septr. 3 1795Reference: 46947i
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A village fair in the Netherlands. Engraving by J. Scott, 1816, after W.M. Craig after P. Wouwermans.
Philips WouwermanDate: November 1, 1816Reference: 2267540i
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By the King : a proclamation to declare His Maiesties pleasure, that a former restraint inioyned to the citizens of London, for repairing to faires for a time, is now set at libertie.
England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)Date: Anno Dom. M.DC.XXV [1625]
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Dr Dulcamara, played by L. Lablache, sells a love philtre to Nemorino played by G. Mario at a country fair. Coloured lithograph by C. Vogt after A. de Valentini.
Valentini, Alexandre de, active 1814.Date: [1835?-1840]Reference: 22168i
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Crowds at Greenwich Park, dancing, watching side shows, etc. Engraving by A. H. Payne after A. Wray.
Wray, A. W., active 1840.Reference: 33082i

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Bartholomew Fair, site of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, pictured in 1721. Aquatint with etching after T. Loggon, c. 1824 (?).

An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.

A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.

A bustling country fair full of stalls of people selling their wares. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1788, after A. Ostade.

Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths with drums, whips, etc: a mounted policeman moves through the throng. Wood engraving.

Bartholomew Fair, London: scene of night-time revelry at the fair in Smithfield, outside St Bartholomew's Hospital. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after A. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1808.

A couple sit laughing in a bumper car at a fair with the words "Saturday Night Fever"; an advertisement for safe sex by the Senatsverwaltung für Gesundheit und Soziales and Senatsverwaltung für Frauen, Jugend und Familie, Berlin. Colour lithograph.

A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.

An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares as part of a performance on stage, at a gigantic travelling country fair known as the Fiera dell' Impruneta. Etching by J. Callot.

Barret, Robert

An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.

An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of assistants and snakes to a captivated audience, Tianjin, China. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1858, after T. Allom.

Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.

A new fairing for the merrily disposed:, or, The comical history of the famous Merry Andrew / W. Phill---. ; Giving an account of his pleasant humours, various adventures, cheats, frolicks, & cunning designs both in city and country.

By the King : the spreading of the infection in our citie of London, and in the places next about it, doeth giue vs iust cause to be as prouident as a carefull prince can bee, to take away all occasion of increasing the same.

Hall Place, Kent: fête for the benefit of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Coloured lithograph by W. Burgess after himself.

The perpetual fair : gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London / Anne Wohlcke.

Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths, eating, etc.: the twin domes of Greenwich Hospital are visible in the background. Wood engraving by [I.B.] after Findlay.

A quack doctor and a dissenting parson selling their respective goods from a fairground booth. Coloured etching, 1795.

A village fair in the Netherlands. Engraving by J. Scott, 1816, after W.M. Craig after P. Wouwermans.

By the King : a proclamation to declare His Maiesties pleasure, that a former restraint inioyned to the citizens of London, for repairing to faires for a time, is now set at libertie.

Dr Dulcamara, played by L. Lablache, sells a love philtre to Nemorino played by G. Mario at a country fair. Coloured lithograph by C. Vogt after A. de Valentini.

Crowds at Greenwich Park, dancing, watching side shows, etc. Engraving by A. H. Payne after A. Wray.