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Jacob's ladder decorated with cut-out engraved images

Format: Book
Language: English
Published/Created: England?: between 1770 and 1799?.
Description: [6] sheets of wood painted various colors tied together with pink tapes ill. (engrs) 7.5 x 5 cm.

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Notes: The Illustrations, which resemble those on lottery sheets, include images of pantomime characters, of Hob from the ballad opera Flora, boys on a see-saw, a waterman, a swan, a cock-chafer, a pelican, a couple dancing a minuet, dustman, angler, waterman, a fox stealing a pig, toy dog captioned "Pompey".
Binding note: new 1/2 brown mor. clamshell.
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