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[BROADSIDE]. The Life and Ages of Man. Stages of Man's Life, from the Cradle to the Grave. All Christians may behold their frail Nature & the Miseries that attend a Sinful Life, set forth in an Alphabetical Poem.... Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Moser and Peter, 1832.
Folio broadside, 23 x 18 in. (590 x 455mm). Wide decorative borders, margins slightly frayed, scattered spotting.
"AT TWENTY, LOVE DOTH SWELL HIS VEINS..." A graphic, very dramatic woodcut depiction of the 12 stages of life, each represented by a standing figure, with a descriptive couplet; in the center a large semicircular group of figures; the bottom section contains admonitory verses, the initial letters of each quatrain ranging from A to Z. The large pictorial woodcuts are unsigned.