A manuscript annotation inside this volume, but not contemporary with it, describes it as an ‘Irish printer’s sample book. 18^th. cent.’ However, there are so many cropped and damaged examples that this seems unlikely. It may just be a collection of Dublin ephemera. No printer is named. Some of the engravings are signed ‘Jackson sculpt.’ with the address Upper Blind Quay, no. 7, others are signed Debenham sculpt. Most are unsigned, as in the displayed opening which shows the use of similar trade signs in bill headings, labels and in a trade card. The iconographical content varies slightly with each trade sign: The Royal Hat, the Hat and Feather and ye Hatt & Two.

JJ Albums 111 (116-122)