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Engraving: 'Monster Soup..." by William Heath
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Engraving: 'Monster Soup..." by William Heath

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Lettering: Monster soup commonly called Thames water, being a correct representation of that precious stuff doled out to us!!! ... Lettering continues: "Microcosm. Dedicated to the London Water Companies 1 - Brought forth all monstrous, all prodigious things, 2 - Hydras and gorgons, and chimeras dire. Vide Milton."(Paradise Lost, ii)

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