A political and satirical history of the years 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760
Subtitle: in a series of one hundred and four humourous and entertaining prints. Containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricatures, of those memorable years
By: To which is annexed, an explanatory key to every print; rendering the whole full and significant
Edition: The fifth edition. Vol. i. Drawn and etch'd by some of the most eminent parties interested therein.
Publisher: Digested and published by M[ary]. Darly, at the Acorn, in Ryder's-court, Cranborn alley, Leicester Fields; (and sold by all the book and prinsellers [sic] in Great Britain and Ireland).
Published: 1763
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Notes: Imprints on plates vary, the commonest being "To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford, Strand"; & "Publish'd according to act [16 Sep. 1756-4 Mar. 1757]. By M[atthew] Darly & Edwards facing Hungerford, Strand."

The plates were probably also separately published. For bibliography, see notes to the BM Catalogue of pol. & pers. satires, nos. 3342 & 3810.

Includes playing card caricatures & other cartoons by George Townshend (nos. 14-15, 26, 38). The following plates are signed pseudonymously: "Rigdum Funidos" (57); "G. Pasquin bibliopolium" (67); "Leonardo da Vinci" (73, 78); "Sr Jn.o Suckling" (74); & "Old Salmoneus" (102).

Vol. 2 has title, A political and satirical history displaying the unhappy influence of Scotch prevalency, in the years 1761, 1762, and 1763.