I try, & mean to gain one more friend, that will spend his money free, and deal with me: ...
Crane, John,of Bromsgrove.
[Birmingham] : Printed by Swinney and Hawkins, Birmingham,
[1800?]
Above the pyramid of text is a circular engraving incorporating the name "I. Crane", and below the pyramid are three columns of verse beginning "To pay your visits, friends, be free,".
An advertisement for John Crane, shopkeeper.
Text in a pyramid, flanked on either side by verse, the left beginning "You stare, my friends! and well you may,".
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