English caricaturists and graphic humourists of the nineteeth century : How they illustrated and interpreted their times (1886)
Everitt, Graham, Heritage Book Shop (Los Angeles, Calif.), former owner. CLUW · London : S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey · leaf 225
ings would have been hung now-a-days.Under the Draconian laws, however, then in force, people were hungin scores for passing forged one-pound Bank of England notes;and this barbarous state of things, disgraceful to a Christian country,led to the famous and telling satire of the Bank Restriction… … THE PRINCE REGENT. 153 selves. It is said to have had the effect desired, and that noman or woman was ever hanged after this for passing forged one-pound Bank of England notes. In 1819 we have one of George Cruikshanks severe and telling 1819. attacks upon the Prince Regent, in Sales by Auction, or…
Caricatures and cartoons · English wit and humor, Pictorial
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