"Published March 1 1790 ..." Signed: "Engraved by Jas. Caldwall, from a picture painted by Phillp. Reinagle." "To the Rev.d the Vise Chancellor, the Masters, Fellows, Scholars & Students, of the University of Cambridge." "This print published at their request, the profits of which I give to Addenbrookes Hospital is most humbly dedicated by their obliged & most obedient Servant John Nicholson." Nicholson is depicted carrying a pile of books in front of Trinity College, Cambridge University. John Nicholson began as a bookseller in Cambridge with a street stall. He married the daughter of Robert Watts who operated the first circulating library in Cambridge. Nicholson succeeded to Watts's business & developed, specializing in lending out undergraduate textbooks as well as lighter reading. He inherited from Watts the nickname 'Maps', after his familiar call.