Beware! Important Caution, Beware of a Pair of Bipeds, That Have..

1850. Printed by Tympan, Frisket, & Co, Rib Row [c 1850]. Printed by Tympan, Frisket, & Co, Rib Row [c 1850]. A Rare 1850 Anti-Lawyer Broadside [Broadside]. [Great Britain]. Beware! Important Caution. Beware of a Pair of Bipeds, That Have Lately Escaped, The One from Jail, The Other "Cut out for a Sawyer but Made Up a Lawyer," From the Weddington-Lane Menagerie, And are Now Haunting this Neighbourhood in Shape of an Overseering Baboon and a Porcupine-Backed Lawyer. [N.p. (Warwickshire?)]: Printed by Tympan, Frisket, & Co, Rib Row, Expose, [c.1850]. 15" x 10-1/2" " (38 x 27 cm) broadside, mounted, cut piece of letter laid down near center reading: "Yours resp[ectfull]y Wm Oram 43 Monday evening." Light browning and soiling, a few minor chips and some rubbing to edges, three horizontal fold lines. A curious, rare item. $1,850. * The text of this anti-lawyer satirical broadside continues (in part): "The Public are particularly Cautioned against the depredations of the above-named FILTHY ANIMALS, as they are known to be peculiarly attached to that which is not their own:---i.e. 'Rates'." William Oram may have been the author of the broadside text. The imprint is fictitious, but the "Weddington Lane" in the title refers to a street in Warwickshire. No copies listed in OCLC, Library Hub or catalogues of major institutions.