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George Cruikshank's Table-book (1845)

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 200

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here to seek a refuge ; hismind, unaccustomed to revert to any means for safety in such an emergency, has toJh^-m its plans, and not to will the execution of those often considered and relied on.Were the balcony understood by the household to be the escape from fire, impulse andthe instinctive love… … The sketch represents a balcony extending in the front of the upper windows of ahouse, and having two moveable ends, secured by a latch, and attached to a springwhich communicates with a bell. In the case of fire, the end a, being unfastened, fallsto the edge of the adjoining balcony, and at the…

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