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Caroline, Queen. AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION COMPRISING OVER 200 CONTEMPORARY PAMPHLETS, POETICAL SQUIBS, BROADSIDES, BALLADS, COLOURED CARICATURES, HANDBILLS, PLACARDS AND COPIOUS NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS RELATING TO QUEEN CAROLINE (1768-1821), WIFE OF GEORGE IV, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVED PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS. This collection includes a number of extremely rare or unrecorded pieces. Caricatures are included by J.R. Cruikshank and George Cruikshank including some early pieces. The pamphlets include numerous scandalous publications and the broadsides include several songs and poems. The collection includes: [Clark, J.] Horrida Bella... London: Humphrey, 1820, title-page engraving and 24 plates, together with letter of attribution by the author's son-in-law Carey, W. A candle to light Lord Lauderdale... London: for the author, 1820, presentation copy inscribed by the author, original wrappers Playfair, P. The Queen and her pawns. London: Benbow, 1820, folding frontispiece plate, 2 pp. publisher's advertisements at end, errata slip The non mi ricordo song book... London: Bailey, [n.d.] Modern anecdotes of the new green (bag) room... London: Langham, 1820 The voyage of Admiral George Carlton... London: Turner, 1820, illustration on title-page A political lecture on tails, dedicated to the great head. London: for Fairburn, 1820, four illustrations by George Cruikshank 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end, [Cohn 665] [Hone, W.] The man in the moon... London: for Hone, 1820, fifteenth edition, illustrations by George Cruikshank 1 p. of publisher's advertisements at end, [Cohn 527] [Hone, W.] The queen's matrimonial ladder... London: for Hone, 1820, thirty-third edition, illustrations by George Cruikshank 2 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end, [Cohn 680] John Bull's constitutional apple-pie... London: Fairburn, 1820, third edition, illustrations by George Cruikshank 1 p. of publisher's advertisements at end, [Cohn 455] [Hone, W.] The queen that Jack found... London: Fairburn, 1820, tenth edition, illustrations by George Cruikshank 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end, [Cohn 679] [Hone, W.] The political queen that Jack loves. London: Roach, [n.d.], fifteenth edition, illustrations by George Cruikshank 3 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end, [Cohn 666] An interesting memoir of her present majesty. Edinburgh: M'William, 1820 [Buchanan, Robert]. Correspondence between Candidus and the Edinburgh weekly journal. Edinburgh: for Jameson, 1820 [Hone, W.] Doll Tear-sheet... London: Fairburn, [1920], second edition, illustrations by George Cruikshank 3 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end, [Cohn 245] [Hone, W.] The political house that Jack built. London: for Hone, 1820, forty-first edition, illustrations by George Cruikshank [Cohn 663] The political "A, apple-pie;" or, the "extraordinary red book"... London: for Johnston, 1820, twenty-fifth edition, illustrations by George Cruikshank [Cohn 659] The old black cock and his dunghill advisers in jeopardy... London: for Wilson, 1820, third edition, [illustrations by J.R. Cruikshank] The total eclipse: a grand politico-astronomical phenomenon... London: Dolby, [1820], illustrations by J.R. Cruikshank, 2 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end [Hone, W.] The queen and Magna Charta... London: Dolby, 1820, second edition, numerous illustrations [by Robert Cruikshank], 1 p. of publisher's advertisements at end [Hone, W.] The spirit of despotism... London: for Hone, 1821, fourth edition, title-page vignette by George Cruikshank [Cohn 770], 2 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end Gillespie, W. The rebellion of Absalom... Dumfries: for the author, 1820 The new Bon Ton magazine for April 1820. London: for Johnston, 1820, coloured frontispiece, upper wrapper present A Letter, respectfully addressed to his most excellent majesty... Edinburgh: for Dick, 1820, printed wrappers [Hone, W.] The political showman – at home! London: for Hone, 1821, second edi