Copper Engravings from The Great Mirror of Folly

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TRANSLATION: Mr. John Law, king's councilor in all affairs, controll...

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TRANSLATION: The wind-buyers paid in wind, or those who are last wil...

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TRANSLATION: The wholesale wind-peddler’s fair.

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TRANSLATION: The wind-buyers or wind-catchers, who lose money and go...

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TRANSLATION: The rising and falling of the share-dealers.

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TRANSLATION: The Atlas of share-paper à la mode with his accomplices...

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TRANSLATION: Many became crazy because they believed in schemes.

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TRANSLATION: Quinquempoix.

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TRANSLATION: The stock boys’ shop gives pleasure and sorrow in steal...

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TRANSLATION: Harlequin stockholder.

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TRANSLATION: Result of the wind trade.

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TRANSLATION: Quinquampoix destroyed.

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TRANSLATION: Bombario, o death! You were no friend to Law, when you ...

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TRANSLATION: The world is a stage; everyone acts his part and gets h...

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TRANSLATION: The defeated stock-jobber seated in the chair with jing...

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TRANSLATION: The South Sea Company, having risen to the top by wind,...

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TRANSLATION: The Great Gathering-Place of The Wind-Dealers in The Ye...

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TRANSLATION: Law, like another Don Quixote, sits on Sancho's ass, be...

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TRANSLATION: Encounter of the carousing bubble lords and menacing po...

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TRANSLATION: Bombario the share-jobber and the ghost of Aesop.

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TRANSLATION: The night singer of shares, with his magic-lantern.

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TRANSLATION: Natural stock doctor, or bubbling bubble master.

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TRANSLATION: Directress of the decayed stock-regiments, and particul...

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TRANSLATION: Appearances are deceitful.

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TRANSLATION: The rector magnificus of un-actined (shareless) literat...

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TRANSLATION: The boaster, covered (with armor?) who has escaped.

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TRANSLATION: Drinking cup, of Fi-ane or Vianen.

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TRANSLATION: The controller of the fortunate and miserable lapis se...

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TRANSLATION: No better remedy, than this highlands Nectar beverage, ...

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TRANSLATION: No better shield, than that which nature has given us; ...

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TRANSLATION: The ruined share-holders restored by the triumphant Har...

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TRANSLATION: The Babel-tower of the confused stock-jobbers.

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TRANSLATION: The tollgate of Vianen for the shareholders arriving fr...

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TRANSLATION: Mirror for the reason of the despairing stockbrokers.

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TRANSLATION: The bedizened shareholders shown during their honor and...

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TRANSLATION: The actions and designs of the world go round as if in ...

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TRANSLATION: The rocking little boat of shares with Madame Company a...

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TRANSLATION: The chevalier of the Golden Calf, or captain of the ear...

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TRANSLATION: Apollo's verdict on the stock-jobbers.

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TRANSLATION: You poor Bubble Lords, well, well, By Jove, you are in...

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TRANSLATION: You poor Bubble Lords, well, well, By Jove, you are in...

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TRANSLATION: The tree of shares withering and dying.

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TRANSLATION: The falsely-fair share-sphinx springs down from the hig...

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TRANSLATION: The hunting bubble boy.

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TRANSLATION: Springwater or potion for the sick shareholder.

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TRANSLATION: The inventor of stock-jobbery in his triumphal car.

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TRANSLATION: The laughing Aesop, present at the cole, or cabbage-fea...

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TRANSLATION: Title print of the stockshop or court of Quinquempoix.

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TRANSLATION: Harlequin and Bombario in mourning.

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TRANSLATION: Virtue and Probity. The useful and useless merchant.

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TRANSLATION: Law laughing, the shareholders mourning, and Mercury en...

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TRANSLATION: Anatomy of the stock-jobbery or Bombario gone to the de...

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TRANSLATION: The strapping share-hawk pierced and the bubble rat bet...

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TRANSLATION: Covetousness tries either to overtake or to out-run for...

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TRANSLATION: Mississippi, or the world-famous Goldland in the fancy ...

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TRANSLATION: Frederick Henry arisen, the ancient patron of ill-place...

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TRANSLATION: Rise, middle, and no-end of the crafty John Law.

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TRANSLATION: Shrove Tide's wreath of joy and the drama.

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TRANSLATION: The world of wastepaper is by fire turned to ashes.

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TRANSLATION: Ball or the world in masquerade.

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TRANSLATION: The end of the stockworld

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TRANSLATION: The god of schemes has spent his fury and leaves only d...

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TRANSLATION: Contemplation for the greedy world on the rise and fall...

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TRANSLATION: The king and the queen of the Mississippi.

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TRANSLATION: The dying Bubble-lord in the lap of Madame Company.