Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... society, out of respect to Mr. Monck, ornamented the lid with a silver rim; and in 1726 the box received a side-casing and bottom of silver. In 1740 the lid, within the rim, was further ornamented with an embossed border; subsequently the bottom was covered with an "ornamented emblem of charity;" and in 1746 a silver plate, containing a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland, engraved by Hogarth, and an inscription, commemorative of the battle of Culloden, was placed on the inside of the lid. The last addition to the old box consists of a scroll on the outside of the lid, with the date 1765, enclosing a plate bearing the arms of the City of Westminster, and inscribed, "This Box to be delivered to every Sett of Overseers, on penalty of five guineas." "The Horn Fair tobacco-box," says Mr. Hone, in the Year Book*, "having thus been ornamented within and without to repletion, there was no room for further additions; but as each senior overseer, with few exceptions, followed the example of his predecessors, a * For an engraving, and a more ample account of this box and its cases, the reader is referred to page 1570 of the Year Book. In 1824 the Society published by subscription a quarto volume, with the following title: "Representations of the embossed, chased, and engraved subjects and inscriptions, which decorate the tobacco-box and cases belonging to the Past Overseers' Society of the Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evangelist, in the City of Westminster," new outer case for it was always prepared for it, when further space was required for ornament, and the original four-penny tobacco-box is now kept in a series of four embellished cases, case within case, until the whole has become of greater bulk and worth than any tobacco-box in...
