Moll King
Publisher: Sold at ye Picture Shop in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Published: 1730
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Coffeehouses; Early works to 1800; English language; Slang; Colloquial language
Notes: Only surviving portrait of Moll King, the proprietess of King's Coffee-House, with text dialogue beneath between Moll and a customer; text is all in contemporary slang.

Entirely engraved.

The address in the imprint suggests that the engraving may have been done by George Bickham, either father or son.

Rare Book copy: Engraved portrait trimmed withing plate mark, glued to early backing at corners