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including 4 by M. Egerton featuring various shops, 'Characteristics, or England, Ireland, and Scotland', outside a haberdasher's, 1827, 'Standing Up', outside a stay, corset and bustle maker, 'Wick_d Works!_or Blaze in Amaze!!', in wax and tallow chandler's, and 'I say, quel chemeng à la Pally Royal?', outside a wigmaker's shop, [the first, only, BM Satires 14995], 1817; also 'The Patent Wigg', depicting a bare-headed Fox being addressed by a wig-maker holding a wig in a manner that creates a profile of Thomas Paine's head, with Burke looking on, [BM Satires 8338], 1793; with 7 of the set of 8 of 'Bombario Actionist ende Geest van Esopus', on the financial crash known as the Mississippi Bubble, 1720; 2 after Hogarth, 'The Stay-Maker' and 'The Company of Undertakers'; and several others, engravings and aquatints, v.s., the last named of the Egertonss with 11 duplicates over 3 editions, the set of Bombario with a duplicate in addition, a few trimmed, occasional slight surface dirt, all loose, [18th and 19th century] (c.30)