The spider and fly : the advertiser takes this opportunity of informing his friends and a discerning public, that he continues the trade of making drunkards, paupers, thieves, beggars, adulterers, and murderers, on the most reasonable terms, and without notice.

Date:
[between 1820 and 1829?]
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Poster comparing the destructive influence of alcohol drinking to that of a spider catching flies in its web. It states that consumption, palsy, apoplexy, delirium, tremens, fevers of all kinds accompany alcoholism and references can be given by the poor house, lunatic asylum, workhouse, hospitals, dispensary, county jail, house of correction and the gallows!!

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1820 and 1829?] Clerkenwell, London : J.V. Quick)

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1 broadside : illustrations ; 51 cm

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