The courteous baronet or the Windsor advertiser (BM 1892,1021.3) (cropped)
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Engraving inset within a printed letter on the right and left margins, with facsimile signature 'John Dinely', the whole surrounded by an ornamental border in wood-cut, with small emblematical wood-cuts at the four corners. A portrait of Dinely standing in profile to the right, a letter in his right hand, left forefinger raised. He wears old-fashioned dress and oddly shaped boots with pattens. Beneath the title is etched:
'How happy will a Lady be
To have a little Baronet, to dandle on her Knee'
Printed: 'I do hereby declare this New Edition of my last Address to the Ladies, to be a true Copy, and that Mr. C. Knight hath my Authority to publish the same as an Embellishment to my Portrait / John Dinely / Windsor Castle, October 23rd, 1799'.
Hand-coloured etching with letterpress text and a wood-cut border
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