![Bookseller & Author / Published by H. Brocas at No. 88 Dame Street Dublin / Engraved by H. Brocas [caption title]. THOMAS ROWLANDSON.](/pictures/thumb/27318.jpg?v=1538850372)
Dublin: H. Brocas, [1784 or later]. Edition: An unauthorized issue. An Irish aquatint after the caricature by Thomas Rowlandson, first published in London Sept. 25, 1784, with the famous scene depicting the bookseller looking unsympathetically at the struggling author who is pleading his case, manuscript in hand. Brocas was a.... More
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. Edition: First and only edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T20407. A satire on unscrupulous politicians - particularly those involved with the "broad bottom" coalition which came to power in 1744 - with a sensational engraving by William Hogarth depicting Tory leaders with flabby bottoms, relieving... More
London: Keegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883, Edition: First edition under this title, one of 50 large paper copies; this one out of series, but see below. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 1427. A combined edition with revisions and omissions of Proverbs in Porcelain and Vignettes in Rhyme. Inscribed on the... More