Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Britannia excisa : Britain excis'd. A new ballad to be sung in time, and to some tune.

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.
Description
8 pages : illustrations (woodcut) ; 31 cm
Classification
Department