A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 : in a series of seventy-five humourous and entertaining prints : containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricaturas of those two memorable years : to which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant.

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A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 , [1758?]

Title(s):: A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 : in a series of seventy-five humourous and entertaining prints : containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricaturas of those two memorable years : to which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant.
Published/Created:: London : Printed for E. Morris, near St. Paul's, [1758?]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] p., 75 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1473 .P65 1758
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3470368
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Contains reduced copies of large plates, as well as small original designs.
Plates published by Edwards and Darly.
Date of publication from ESTC.
English short title catalogue, T43943
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in full calf.
Subject Terms:: Great Britain -- History -- George II, 1727–1760.
Great Britain -- History -- Humor -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1727–1760.
Rebuses -- Specimens -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:: Caricatures.
Rebuses.
Contributors:: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720–approximately 1778.
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