Beards takin off. & registurd! / by Isaac Fac-Totum, barber, peri-wig maker, surgeon, parish clark, scool master, blacksmith, and man-midwife.

London : Printed and sold at the Little a, No.50 within Bishopsgate, [Between 1790 and 1799?]

1 leaf ; 29 cm

A facetious advertisement with intentionally appalling spelling (part of the joke being that they offer "young gentlemen also taut their grammer langwage in the neetest maner"). The main joke is that the barber surgeon often offered to do a very wide range of things (Fac-totum = does everything). The content of the selection listed here is intentionally excessively diverse and absurd.

A version of this was issued in about 1785 with different spelling. 'The little a' printers were at 42 Bishopsgate Street between 1785-1790.

Copy 2. The printer / bookseller details have been cut off from the bottom of the sheet (approximately 37 mm)