Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., Five stanzas of verse below title: Fortune's wheel is turning quickly round, and nothing in our court of certainty is found ..., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-7., Publication date from British Museum online catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Personifications: figure of Fortune -- Interiors: Court of Request -- Architectural details: tradesmen's stalls -- Shops: bookseller -- Vehicles: fire-engine., Title from item., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
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Argyll, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743, Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751, Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, Ombersley, Samuel Sandys, Baron of, 1695-1770, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford
"Price 1s"--Lower right corner., Bound in a collection of 35 prints with armorial book plate: Ex-libris Lichtensteinianis., One line of text following title: NB. The beasts represent certain monarchs, and the birds certain kingdoms, the eagle in particular Germany with her nine electors., P. Murray Hill; May 1957; Acquisitions no.: 957-5-3-31., Temporary local subject terms: Russian bear -- German eagle and 9 eaglets (electors) -- French fox and fox cub -- Hungarian peacock -- Prussian jay -- British lion -- Dutch goose -- Austrian bull -- Bavarian hound -- Morrocan tunis (camel) -- Swiss bat -- Venetian dolphin -- Walpolian owl -- Spanish griffin -- Swedish ostrich -- Swan of Lorain -- Roman cat -- Danish stork -- Persian rhinoceros -- Turkish elephant -- Norwegian frog -- Pretender's serpent -- Bills: excise, 1741 -- Torches -- German elections, 1741 -- Europe as beehive -- Hanoverian turnips -- Count Joseph Edward Gage, 1678?-1753?, Title from item., and With spine title: Caricatures anglaise 1740.
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Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764, Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749, National emblems, National emblems -- British, National emblems -- Danish, National emblems -- Dutch, National emblems -- German, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745