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..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London