The surprising monsters : being the wonderful works of the divine judgement on a wicked proud young woman who for her game and despising of others was made herself an example of, for instead of three children at one birth, she had three of the most horrid objects that ever mortal eye beheld; and such that the oldest person living never before saw the like.

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[between 1820 and 1829?]
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The surprising monsters : being the wonderful works of the divine judgement on a wicked proud young woman who for her game and despising of others was made herself an example of, for instead of three children at one birth, she had three of the most horrid objects that ever mortal eye beheld; and such that the oldest person living never before saw the like. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Northampton : Richardson, printer, [between 1820 and 1829?]

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1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (woodcut) ; 25 x 18 cm

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Concerns Mary Rice of Daventry, who told the husband of a woman who gave birth to triplets that they had three different fathers; she herself then gave birth to three monsters.
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: A.W. Laywood Note: Trimmed at head, with loss of part of title and illustration

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