'Buy a Trap, a Rat Trap, buy my Trap', plate I of Cries of London, 1799. Artist: H Merke

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'Buy a Trap, a Rat Trap, buy my Trap'. A ragged man offers traps to an old man whilst children examine a rabbit in a wicker cage and a dog snarls at two rats in one of the traps. Plate I of Cries of London, 1799

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