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Shared By: LibraryOfCongress Collection 12-24-2009

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TITLE:  [A Bailiff and an attorney--a match for the Devil] CALL NUMBER:  PC 1 - 3767 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-105267 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY:  A satire on attornies and bailiffs. Lawyer, in his office, holding papers marked, "Middlesex to Wit -- Jno. Doe & Richd. Doe ..."; he converses with a rough man, with a cudgel under his arm, who holds case inscribed, "Henry Handheart Office" (r to the Sheriff of Middlesex). Another catchpole stands by the side of this man. MEDIUM:  1 print : engraving and mezzotint. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [London : printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, ca. 1760] NOTES: Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3767. SUBJECTS: Lawyers--Great Britain--1760-1770. Bailiffs--Great Britain--1760-1770. Law offices--Great Britain--1760-1770. FORMAT: Cartoons British 1760-1770.Mezzotints 1760-1770. DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c05267 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c05267 CONTROL #:  92508872