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Engravers: Thomas Hancock (fl. 1796-1830s)

Trade Card with pencil inscription in the shield.
Held at Birmingham Archive.

Thomas Hancock (1774-after 1830s) was an engraver, and the son of another well-known engraver, Robert Hancock.*1* His business was at 14 Congreve Street (just off from what is now Victoria Square) from about 1796, and he worked till the 1830s. 

Birmingham Books: The Patriotic Clarion (1803), by James Bisset

Frontispiece of The Patriotic Clarion, by James Bisset, 1803.
Bisset invt., Hollins delin & Hancock fect.
Held at the British Museum.


Frontispiece of The Patriotic Clarion (1803) by James Bisset. The design was produced by Bisset, drawn by Thomas Hollins and engraved by Thomas Hancock. The book was printed by Myles Swinney.