Law that details rights and duties of landlords and tenants

A sick man (Valentine) in bed with his hand held by his sister Camilla: the landlady demands the rent as David Simple enters the room. Line engraving by W. Blake, 1782, after T. Stothard.

Dr Samuel Johnson reading the manuscript of Oliver Goldsmith's 'The vicar of Wakefield', while a bailiff waits with the landlady. Mezzotint by S. Bellin, 1845, after E.M. Ward.

A monkey poet, in arrears with his rent, is embarrassed when his landlady opens the door to present him with bills. Etching by T. Landseer, 1828.

An elderly land-lady taking a warming-pan to put in her lodgers bed, which is already occupied by someone else. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.

1 volume<br/>132 folios 4to. 18 x 141/ : ; 2 cm Original 17th cent. panelled-calf gilt binding, with arabesque centre ornament. Ffolio 94-117 wanting: many margins and corners frayed. Text within red rules. The watermark seems to be a variant of Nos. 525-527, dated 1641, in W. A. Churchill's 'Watermarks in paper in Holland and England [etc.] in the 17th and 18th centuries' 1935.

Miscellanea XII.

1 print : lithograph ; image 42.7 x 54.5 cm

A man visits a country cottage and pays a young woman; local children protect a pet lamb. Lithograph, 18--.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; images (right) 48.2 x 35.5 cm, (left) 38 x 35.4 cm

The replacement of landlords by people's communes. Colour lithograph, ca. 1959.

1 print : line engraving ; platemrk 17.5 x 11.6 cm

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An elderly land-lady taking a warming-pan to put in her lodgers bed, which is already occupied by someone else. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.

Miscellanea XII.

A man visits a country cottage and pays a young woman; local children protect a pet lamb. Lithograph, 18--.

The replacement of landlords by people's communes. Colour lithograph, ca. 1959.

A sick man (Valentine) in bed with his hand held by his sister Camilla: the landlady demands the rent as David Simple enters the room. Line engraving by W. Blake, 1782, after T. Stothard.