The circulating library [graphic].

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Title: The circulating library [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Copyright Date: [1 October 1804]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Octr. 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: Three women stand in a library; two converse as the third looks through the catalogue discussing the titles as the man behind the counter looks on as a dog lies curled up at her feet. A second man stands on a ladder reaching for a book; he has several tucked under his other arm. The shelves are labeled with the subject or genre of the material
Description: Title engraved below image.
Plate numbered '369' in the lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Five lines of caption below title: "Pray, my dear Mr. Page," cried a pretty lisper, looking over a catalogue "will you let me have that dear Man of Feeling, I have so long waited for...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 25 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1804
Etchings England London 1804
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dogs
Clerks
Libraries
Women
Subjects: Dogs
Clerks
Libraries
Women
England > 1804
England > London > 1804

Access: Public
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