1840 (c.) an amusing doggerel verse on both sides of a single sheet headed "His New Envelopes" caricaturing the Mulready design, starts "Britannia is sending her messengers forth. To the East, to the West, to the South, to the North; At her feet is a lion wot's taking a nap, And a dish cover rests on her legs and her lap", a fascinating piece of Mulready history

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1840 (c.) an amusing doggerel verse on both sides of a single sheet headed "His New Envelopes" caricaturing the Mulready design, starts "Britannia is sending her messengers forth. To the East, to the West, to the South, to the North; At her feet is a lion wot's taking a nap, And a dish cover rests on her legs and her lap", a fascinating piece of Mulready history

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