12 Satire.pdf - Grosvenor Prints
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preserve men's lands,/ And all their goods<br />
from ravenous hands./ Therefore of right<br />
challenges He,/ To have the Superiority./<br />
Physick prescribes receipts for health,/<br />
Which men prefer before thir wealth:/<br />
Therefore of right challenges He,/ To have<br />
the Superiority./ Then strait speaks up the<br />
Priest demure,/ Who of men's souls takes<br />
care and cure:/ Therefore of right<br />
challenges He,/ To have the Superiority./ If<br />
Judges end this Triple Plea, The Lawyers<br />
shall bear all the sway./ If Emperics their<br />
verdict give,/ Physicians best of all will<br />
thrive./ If Bishops arbitrate the case,/ The<br />
Priests must have the higest place./ If<br />
Honest, Sober, Wise Men judge, Then All<br />
the Three away may trudge./ For let men<br />
live in peace and love,/ The Lawyers tricks<br />
they need not prove./ Let them forbear<br />
excess and riot,/ They need not feed on<br />
Doctor's diet./ Let them attend what God<br />
does teach,/ They need not care what<br />
Parsons preach./ But if men Fools and<br />
Knaves will be,/ They'll be Ass ridden by<br />
All Three.; ;Law is like a new fashion, folks<br />
are bewitched to get into it__It is also like<br />
bad weather, most people are very glad<br />
when they get out of it.<br />
[After Robert Dighton] except (8): From the Original<br />
Picture by John Collett, in the Possession of Carington<br />
Bowles. Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No.<br />
69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the<br />
Act directs, 15 May 1780 (8); 2 March 1785 (2); 14<br />
Feb 1791 (4, 6); 1 Dec.r 1792 (7); 18 April 1793 (1, 3);<br />
<strong>12</strong> June 1793 (5).<br />
Eight Coloured mezzotints, 250 x 350mm. 9½ x 13¾".<br />
Unexamined out of frame. £2800<br />
A complete set of eight legal droles in the same<br />
condition. (1) A lawyer at his desk instructs two sullen<br />
bailiffs carrying bundles of writs.; (2) A country<br />
lawyer sits at his desk while his clients offer him dead<br />
animls and produce as payment.; (3) A lawyer sits at<br />
his study, receiving advice from the devil.; (4) A<br />
confused-looking litigant flanked by a lawyer and a<br />
solicitor.; (5) A crowd of lawyers in Westminster Hall.;<br />
(6) A lawyer stands between two litigants, about to eat<br />
an oyster. He shows one half of the empty shell to one<br />
litigant, while the other looks at the other half of the<br />
shell.; (7) The devil distributes briefs among a crowd<br />
of lawyers, whilst in the foreground a layman drops<br />
gold coins into the hand of one of them.; (8) A<br />
clergyman, lawyer and doctor debate who causes most<br />
harm to mankind. A picture of harpies hangs on the<br />
wall..<br />
(1) BM <strong>Satire</strong>s 3767; (2) BM <strong>Satire</strong>s 3766; (3) BM<br />
<strong>Satire</strong>s 3765; (4); BM <strong>Satire</strong>s 7363(6) BM <strong>Satire</strong>s<br />
3763; (7) BM <strong>Satire</strong>s 3763; (8) BM <strong>Satire</strong>s 3761<br />
Ref: 9323<br />
SCIENCE, TRADES & INDUSTRY<br />
722. Aeronautical <strong>Prints</strong> & Drawings<br />
with text by Lt.-Col. W. Lockwood Marsh<br />
O.B.E., M.A., LL.B., A.F.R.Ae.S.,<br />
Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical<br />
Society and Foreword by Major-General<br />
Sir Frederick H. Sykes G.B.E., K.C.B.,<br />
C.M.G., F.R. Ae.S., M.P., Late Chief of the<br />
Air Staff and Controller-General of Civil<br />
Aviation<br />
London Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd. 1924<br />
4to, limited edition no 252 of 1000; original blue cloth<br />
gilt, rubbed edges; pp. xx + 36; colour frontis. tipped in<br />
+ 87 plates, of which 80 half-tones, 7 colour tipped in.<br />
Bookplate on front endpaper. £420<br />
The Reference Book on Balloons, Collection of Lord<br />
Kings Norton. A compendium of important<br />
aeronautical prints and drawings with background<br />
information.<br />
Ref: 8269<br />
723. Alexander and Philip His Physician.<br />
From the Original Picture Painted by Mr<br />
Benjamin West; In the Collection of<br />
G.Stibbert Esq.r.<br />
B.West pinxit. Val:Green fecit. Published Jan.y 1st<br />
1772 by John Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London.<br />
Mezzotint. 445 x 530mm. Some of the margin lost<br />
lower left, some staining. £380<br />
Medical interest. Alexander the Great in his tent,<br />
nursing his head.<br />
Ref: 9086<br />
724. The Aerial Man, (passing the<br />
Observatory, Greenwich Park.)<br />
Rock & Co. London [n.d., c.1843.]<br />
Steel engraving, 1300 x 185mm. 5 x 7½". £<strong>12</strong>0<br />
A fictitious flight past the Royal Observatory of a man<br />
in a top hat employing an ornithopter (flying machine<br />
with wings intended to be flapped like those of a bird.).<br />
Joseph Degan designed an ornithopter in 1808, and<br />
was emulated by several other nineteenth century<br />
inventors, none of them successful.<br />
Ref: 8635