Letterpress text with wood-engravings on either side of the title at head of sheet: on the left “Temperance and Happy Family” and on the right “Intemperance and Miserable Family”. Below the heading and on the upper half of the sheet, an explanation of a wood-engraving in the center entitled “The Drunkard’s Coat of Arms”. On the lower half of the sheet, a poem in four columns, surrounding another large central image of a drunken crowd, including a woman feeding her infant from a wine glass; the rowdy, celebrating in a room with a row of large barrels labeled “Holland, Brand[y], Rum, Old Tom, Cream of the Valley.”
- Title: The vices of the gin shop, public house, and tavern dissected, or, The folly of dram drinking clearly exhibited.
- Publication: [London] : J. Quick, [approximately 1833]
833.00.00.16+
Acquired November 2020
A Westminster election handbill.
