Title from text below image., Date of publication based on date of The Maine Law (or "Maine Liquor Law"), which was passed on 2 June 1851., Text below title: Grand Papa. "But for seventy years, my child, I have found the moderate use of the good things of this life has done me good." Young hopeful teeotaller. "All a mistake Granpa', total abstinence is the thing. Look at me! I've not tasted wine or beer for years!", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 49 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
Temperance, Girls, Clocks & watches, Grandparents, Pipes (Smoking), and Smoking
Title from caption below images., Numerous small designs divided into two groups by a horizontal line, the six designs towards the bottom having individual captions etched below., Text above designs on bottom part of plate: These six subjects are from Kaulbach's designs illustrating Goethe's fable of "Reynard the fox.", Text among designs on top part of plate: Copied by permission of H. Ploucquet, preparator to the Royal Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Kingdom of Wurttemberg, Germany., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text above image., Date of publication based on dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Text below image: This is all I have ma'm. I have just let the last tent on the tiles to a foreign nobleman., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Seven small images on sheet; each individually captioned: Carving of Cowper cultivating letters in his garden at Olney, he is tending his favourite the T behind is the U tree contributed by a lunatic asylum; Art manufactures sent in as pictures & rejected accordingly ...
Description:
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Eighth numbered plate in a series of at least 8 etched plates.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Seven small images on sheet, each individually captioned: Author craft manufactures sent in as specimens of typography (to advertise themselves) rejected as no space was alotted for trunk linings; Book bound by a journeyman carpenter ..., and Seventh numbered plate in a series of at least 8 etched plates.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Seven small images on sheet; each individually captioned: A lovely Grecian gothic arabasque, watered drawing room paper, in the style of Louis XIV from the school of design; State bedstead ..., and Numbered '6' in upper right, from a series of at least 8 etched plates.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight small images on sheet; each individually captioned: Proverbial parian pottery, a butter boat, illustrating the adage of there being more ways of killing a dog thank choking him with butter, rejected because there are "no dogs admitted"; "The addle" a poetical egg cup ..., and Numbered '5' in upper right, from a series of at least 8 plates.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five small images on sheet, each individually captioned: The Hon. Rob Boyle, a kettle; A rabid fire-dog ..., and Numbered '4' in upper right, from a series of at least 8 etched plates.
Wise saw and sword fish from Sheffield and Sandwich box
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Title from text below first design, upper left., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Nine small images on sheet, each individually captioned., Numbered '3' in upper right; in a series of at least 8 etched plates., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
