Hob surprised by Sir Thomas with Mr. Friendley's letter
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in four columns on either side of title: (Sr. Tho. sings) To guard my Hesperian tree, requires more care than of old ..., Second plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Series title only on Plate 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials GR below.
Title from item., Printmaker and publisher from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of verse on either side of title: Friend. sings. O fly from this place, dear Flora, thy taylor has left thee free ..., Eighth plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Series title only on Plate 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials GR below.
Title from item., Printmaker and publisher from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Publication date inferred from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two columns of verse on either side of title: Hob. Now we zell zeveral other zorts of liquors,and wine too an occasion be ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Hob's petition to Sir Thomas to be saved from the well
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora., Third plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora., Publication date based on publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: I never till now was conzarned in strife, have mercy, Sr. Thomas, & spare poor Hob'd life ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller near Serjeant Inn, Fleet Street
First title from image, second title devised by cataloger., Imprint from title page accompanying prints., Plate from: A book of caricaturas : on 59 copper-plates, with [the] principles of designing in that droll & pleasing manner, with sundry ancient & modern examples & several well known caricaturas / by M. Darly. Cornhill [England] : Printed for R. Wilkinson, No. 58 in Cornhill, [176-?]., Plate numbered: "9"., With: [Profiles of eight men, facing in both directions] / My. Darly invt. 1762. Numbered: '10'., Reissue., and Not bound; in box labeled "Darly 1763".
Title from item., State with original title and without additional image below title. Cf. British Museum catalogue, no 3733., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Architects -- Bridges: Blackfriars' Bridge, London -- Medals., and Mounted to 35 x 46 cm.
Title from item., Two columns of verse below title: In country village lives a vicar, fond--as all are!--of tythes and liquor ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: country vicar -- Customs: tithing -- Architectural details: Georgian fac̦ade -- Emblems: peacock as vanity -- Birds: peacock -- Villages -- Buildings: country church -- Jokes -- Food: fruit -- Swaddled babies -- Turnstiles -- Bundle of wheat.
Down with the devil, pope, French King and Pretender
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Another George has fled this weeping ball , being summon'd hence by Heavens mighty call ..., Temporary local subject terms: Members of Parliament -- Satan -- Popes -- Angels -- Emblems: scales of justice., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788, Clement XIII, Pope, 1693-1769, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Verse - "Let every one that is to mirth inclin'd,"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the imprint is at the foot of the last, below a row of type ornaments; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 75. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow Lane, London
