Clocks.- Woodhead (J., publisher) An Account of James H[i]rst, Esq. of Rawcliff, Yorkshire, A Most Eccentric Gentleman, broadside detailing antics of an eccentric living in Yorkshire, wood-engraved vignette with four columns of text below, sheet 400 x 240 mm (15 3/4 x 9 1/2 in), laid onto paper support, old folds and handling creases, small nicks and losses to extremities, unframed, reprinted and engraved by M.W. Carrall, York, [circa 1800]
⁂ Scarce, apparently unrecorded. "When set in his comical carriage, he makes nobility smile; And some clock-work he has at his feet, Will toll when he goes a mile [...] At one time, a journey to London he undertook going by day; With his clock-work well fix'd at his wheel. In order to measure the way... "
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