For a penny in eighteenth century England you could buy a book on how best to broil wood pigeons or make birch tree wine, read an account of the last execution by burning in Britain or puzzle-your way through riddle rhymes. Complete with woodcut illustrations you could read popular versions of Dr Faustus, John Barleycorn, Aesop's Fables and the ...
Written Threescore Years ago by an English Gentleman, who served first in the Army of Gustavus Adolphus, the glorious King of Sweden, till his Death; and after that, in the Royal Army of King Charles the First, from the Beginning of the Rebellion, to the End of that War.
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