Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Plate numbered '23' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: La morgue, or, bone-house. Where the bodies of those who are found dead, from accident, their own hands, or, others' ..., and Second sheet attached to print 10 x 17 cm. Watermark.
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: National guard. A corps many thousand strong, -composed of citizens, -mostly shopkeepers and bound therefore in interest as well as duty to protect property and preserve the peace ..., and Second sheet attached to print 8 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Palais-Royal (Paris, France), and Paris (France). Garde nationale.
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Plate numbered '6' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Office of passports, -Calais. Here a certificate (resembling a passport) is furnished ( -a sufficient pass through the fortified towns) ..., and Second sheet attached to print 8 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Calais (France)
Subject (Topic):
Emigration and immigration and Immigration stations
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Plate numbered '22' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Palais Royal. Originally designed as a palace for the Duke of Orleans, -the centre of attraction in Paris, -is of an oblong form with a handsome arcade under which are shops ..., and Second sheet attached to print 13 x 17 cm.
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Passage. To the right -English blacking is the attraction where Parisians do -and those who choose ..., and Second sheet attached to print 11 x 17 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Paris (France), France, and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life and Arcades (Shopping facilities)
A scene with a family group of peasants standing with a gentleman in coat and top hat. In the distance others are working in the fields, one woman carrying a sheaf of wheat to the left
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Plate numbered '10' in the upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Peasants. Peasants-engaged in harvest-who, for that purpose, mostly come from the interior, "To reap and sheave, and bind ..., and Second sheet attached to print 12 x 17 cm.
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Roger, who and Corvus Pegasus together had laid their heads when half seas over ..., and Second sheet attached to print 12 x 19 cm.
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Royal Mail. Between Calais and Paris -worked with post-horses, and quitting the latter every afternoon at 4 o'clock: -its return of course depending on the arrival of the mail packet at Calais ..., and Second sheet attached to print 9 x 17 cm.
Title engraved image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Streets of Paris. In front of a grocer's shop is a coffee roaster-adjoining a butcher's-by an admirable arrangement, all bullocks, sheep, &c. being slaughter'd at one extremity of Paris ..., and Second sheet attached to print 7 x 17 cm.