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Myles Swinney’s trade card

1784

An etched trade card showing a classical female figure beside an oval reading ‘Swinney, Printer, Bookseller and Stationer, No. 75 High Street, Birmingham’, with books and inkwells. — Unknown engraver, 1784. British Museum via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · Select the picture to zoom and pan.

The trade card of Myles Swinney, whose High Street type foundry employed John Handy for twelve years.

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