An advertisement, probably placed by Samuel Bennett (sole proprietor, printer and publisher of the Empire), for the sale of a single cylinder printing machine. The sale is being offered 'to make room for a new machine daily expected from England'.
An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Thomas William Robertson's Caste and William Blanchard Jerrold's Cool as a Cucumber on 16 and 18 September 1868. (The 16 September advertisement also notes: 'In preparation, the Great Drama of Azael, the Prodigal.)
Alexandre Dumas was being 'perpetually being troubled by applications for his autograph, for epigrams, or in fact, the smallest contributions to those albums of literary testimonial which it is now much the fashion of display in both French and English saloons'. He employs a humorous solution against a physician who approaches him.
