A student is introduced to the head of a college at Oxford University. First Bow to Alma Mater, or Bernard Blackmantle's introduction to the Big Wig. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott.

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