12 Satire.pdf - Grosvenor Prints

preserve men's lands,/ And all their goods
from ravenous hands./ Therefore of right
challenges He,/ To have the Superiority./
Physick prescribes receipts for health,/
Which men prefer before thir wealth:/
Therefore of right challenges He,/ To have
the Superiority./ Then strait speaks up the
Priest demure,/ Who of men's souls takes
care and cure:/ Therefore of right
challenges He,/ To have the Superiority./ If
Judges end this Triple Plea, The Lawyers
shall bear all the sway./ If Emperics their
verdict give,/ Physicians best of all will
thrive./ If Bishops arbitrate the case,/ The
Priests must have the higest place./ If
Honest, Sober, Wise Men judge, Then All
the Three away may trudge./ For let men
live in peace and love,/ The Lawyers tricks
they need not prove./ Let them forbear
excess and riot,/ They need not feed on
Doctor's diet./ Let them attend what God
does teach,/ They need not care what
Parsons preach./ But if men Fools and
Knaves will be,/ They'll be Ass ridden by
All Three.; ;Law is like a new fashion, folks
are bewitched to get into it__It is also like
bad weather, most people are very glad
when they get out of it.
[After Robert Dighton] except (8): From the Original
Picture by John Collett, in the Possession of Carington
Bowles. Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No.
69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the
Act directs, 15 May 1780 (8); 2 March 1785 (2); 14
Feb 1791 (4, 6); 1 Dec.r 1792 (7); 18 April 1793 (1, 3);
12 June 1793 (5).
Eight Coloured mezzotints, 250 x 350mm. 9½ x 13¾".
Unexamined out of frame. £2800
A complete set of eight legal droles in the same
condition. (1) A lawyer at his desk instructs two sullen
bailiffs carrying bundles of writs.; (2) A country
lawyer sits at his desk while his clients offer him dead
animls and produce as payment.; (3) A lawyer sits at
his study, receiving advice from the devil.; (4) A
confused-looking litigant flanked by a lawyer and a
solicitor.; (5) A crowd of lawyers in Westminster Hall.;
(6) A lawyer stands between two litigants, about to eat
an oyster. He shows one half of the empty shell to one
litigant, while the other looks at the other half of the
shell.; (7) The devil distributes briefs among a crowd
of lawyers, whilst in the foreground a layman drops
gold coins into the hand of one of them.; (8) A
clergyman, lawyer and doctor debate who causes most
harm to mankind. A picture of harpies hangs on the
wall..
(1) BM Satires 3767; (2) BM Satires 3766; (3) BM
Satires 3765; (4); BM Satires 7363(6) BM Satires
3763; (7) BM Satires 3763; (8) BM Satires 3761
Ref: 9323
SCIENCE, TRADES & INDUSTRY
722. Aeronautical Prints & Drawings
with text by Lt.-Col. W. Lockwood Marsh
O.B.E., M.A., LL.B., A.F.R.Ae.S.,
Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical
Society and Foreword by Major-General
Sir Frederick H. Sykes G.B.E., K.C.B.,
C.M.G., F.R. Ae.S., M.P., Late Chief of the
Air Staff and Controller-General of Civil
Aviation
London Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd. 1924
4to, limited edition no 252 of 1000; original blue cloth
gilt, rubbed edges; pp. xx + 36; colour frontis. tipped in
+ 87 plates, of which 80 half-tones, 7 colour tipped in.
Bookplate on front endpaper. £420
The Reference Book on Balloons, Collection of Lord
Kings Norton. A compendium of important
aeronautical prints and drawings with background
information.
Ref: 8269
723. Alexander and Philip His Physician.
From the Original Picture Painted by Mr
Benjamin West; In the Collection of
G.Stibbert Esq.r.
B.West pinxit. Val:Green fecit. Published Jan.y 1st
1772 by John Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 445 x 530mm. Some of the margin lost
lower left, some staining. £380
Medical interest. Alexander the Great in his tent,
nursing his head.
Ref: 9086
724. The Aerial Man, (passing the
Observatory, Greenwich Park.)
Rock & Co. London [n.d., c.1843.]
Steel engraving, 1300 x 185mm. 5 x 7½". £120
A fictitious flight past the Royal Observatory of a man
in a top hat employing an ornithopter (flying machine
with wings intended to be flapped like those of a bird.).
Joseph Degan designed an ornithopter in 1808, and
was emulated by several other nineteenth century
inventors, none of them successful.
Ref: 8635