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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827
Concordia discors. -- Hor.
[London] : [publisher not recorded], [1788]
Peel 1611
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[London] : [publisher not recorded], [1788].
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Caption title; trimmed etching removed from a copy of the illustrated title page for Charles Shillito's The country book-club. A poem (London : Printed for the author, 1788), with the title and imprint cut away.
Library's copy cropped and trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Oval design shows six men, intended to represent members of a country book club, seated around a table at an inn, talking and smoking as a young woman hands one of them a tankard; placards on the walls behind them read, "Rules of this club 1788", "The Garland all ye that come", "Glenville on witches", and "Liberty of the Press".
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