Accession number
PML 3469.81
Published
London : printed by T. Reynolds, MDCCXXXIII [1733].
Notes
No headpiece on page 3.
Large woodcut on title page showing Robert Walpole in a chaise drawn by a many-headed monster (the Excise scheme). The monster's jaws devour a bottle, a wine glass, a tankard a pipe and a sheep; one of its heads turns back vomiting a stream of coins through the window of the chaise and into Walpole's hand.
A satire on Robert Walpole's excise bill of 1733.
Sometimes ascribed to William Pulteney.
Large woodcut on title page showing Robert Walpole in a chaise drawn by a many-headed monster (the Excise scheme). The monster's jaws devour a bottle, a wine glass, a tankard a pipe and a sheep; one of its heads turns back vomiting a stream of coins through the window of the chaise and into Walpole's hand.
A satire on Robert Walpole's excise bill of 1733.
Sometimes ascribed to William Pulteney.
Description
8 pages : illustrations (woodcut) ; 31 cm
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