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1 print : line engraving ; platemark 24.2 x 16.2 cm

A man dressed in costume as a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Line engraving.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 9.5 x 14.4 cm

An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a carriage to a crowd of people on the Pont-Neuf, Paris. Wood engraving by G. de Saint-Aubin.

1 print : etching ; platemark 31.8 x 23.3 cm

A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.

Eighteenth Century collections online

The son of Tabeal. A sermon occasion'd by the French invasion in favour of the Pretender. Preach'd March 14. 1707/8. By Thomas Bradbury.

1 print : lithograph (?), with watercolour

A bogus wizard appears to raise a devil out of the ground for a customer whose pocket is picked by the wizard's accomplice. Coloured print after Thomas Rowlandson, 1800.

ix, 349 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 21 cm

Famous impostors / by Bram Stoker.

xxiv, 724 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds / by Charles Mackay ; with facsimile title pages and reproductions of original illustrations from the editions of 1841 and 1852 ; with a foreword by Bernard M. Baruch.

45 pages, 1 unnumbered bl. leaves ; (8vo)

Authentic anecdotes of George Lukins, the Yatton doemoniac; with a view of the controversy, and a full refutation of the imposture / By Samuel Norman.

<p>On the sitter see Dictionary of National Biography</p>

J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1830.

1 print : line engraving with etching ; platemark 20.2 x 13.5 cm

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A man dressed in costume as a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Line engraving.

An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a carriage to a crowd of people on the Pont-Neuf, Paris. Wood engraving by G. de Saint-Aubin.

A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.

The son of Tabeal. A sermon occasion'd by the French invasion in favour of the Pretender. Preach'd March 14. 1707/8. By Thomas Bradbury.

A bogus wizard appears to raise a devil out of the ground for a customer whose pocket is picked by the wizard's accomplice. Coloured print after Thomas Rowlandson, 1800.

Famous impostors / by Bram Stoker.

Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds / by Charles Mackay ; with facsimile title pages and reproductions of original illustrations from the editions of 1841 and 1852 ; with a foreword by Bernard M. Baruch.

Authentic anecdotes of George Lukins, the Yatton doemoniac; with a view of the controversy, and a full refutation of the imposture / By Samuel Norman.

J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1830.

Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman, demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Engraving by G. Walker, 1792, after M. Laroon.

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A man dressed in costume as a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Line engraving.

An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a carriage to a crowd of people on the Pont-Neuf, Paris. Wood engraving by G. de Saint-Aubin.

A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.

The son of Tabeal. A sermon occasion'd by the French invasion in favour of the Pretender. Preach'd March 14. 1707/8. By Thomas Bradbury.

A bogus wizard appears to raise a devil out of the ground for a customer whose pocket is picked by the wizard's accomplice. Coloured print after Thomas Rowlandson, 1800.

Famous impostors / by Bram Stoker.

Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds / by Charles Mackay ; with facsimile title pages and reproductions of original illustrations from the editions of 1841 and 1852 ; with a foreword by Bernard M. Baruch.

Authentic anecdotes of George Lukins, the Yatton doemoniac; with a view of the controversy, and a full refutation of the imposture / By Samuel Norman.

J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1830.

Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman, demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Engraving by G. Walker, 1792, after M. Laroon.

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