Provisions contrasted : from the year 1775, to the year 1795

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Title: Provisions contrasted : from the year 1775, to the year 1795
Published / Created: [1795?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Citizen Shaw (shaver to the swineish multitude) at the blooming Tree of Liberty, No. 4 Cranbourn Alley, Leicester Fields
Description: Date of publication supplied by cataloger.
First line: "As numbers of people are led away with the idea (particularly the rich),".
"The following table of the comparison of the price of the necessaries of life, for a family consisting of a man, his wife, and five or six children, drawn by actual experience, from the periods above-mentioned ..."
Not in ESTC.
Mounted on leaf 70. Copy trimmed.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Provenance: One of three volumes of ballads purchased from P. Murray Hill by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
Extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 35 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Broadsides
Brit tracts
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Poor
Working class
Cost and standard of living
Food consumption
Subjects: Poor > England > Early works to 1800
Working class > England > 18th century
Cost and standard of living > England > 18th century
Food consumption
Brit tracts > 1795

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