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Caroline (Queen).- Attorney-General's Charges (The) against the Late Queen, brought forward in the House of Peers, on Saturday, August 19, 1820, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 49 hand-coloured etched plates, a few by George and Robert Cruikshank but the majority by Theodore Lane, with the hand-coloured 'Armorial Bearings of the White Cat' tail-piece tipped to blank leaf at end (sometimes missing), one plate 'Broom versus Brush Wood' loose (trimmed to plate-mark and tipped into loosely-inserted slightly smaller blank leaf, light browning to image), with an additional plate 'Moments of Pain' (trimmed to plate-mark and tipped into blank leaf) and a variant of 'Bat, Cat and Mat' (with figures the same but different background) loosely inserted, frontispiece and title loose and slightly chipped at edges, plates generally clean but some marginal spotting or staining, mostly towards end, offsetting to plate guards and one or two with small marginal tear, bookplate of Sir William Augustus Fraser of Ledeclune and Morar, later half morocco, g.e., rubbed, joints a little worn, [BM Satires 14206, note], folio, G.Humphrey, [1821]. ***Very rare collection of caricatures aimed at Queen Caroline. BM Satires refers to a copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale but says there is no copy in the British Museum. No copy listed on COPAC..