1-624-719 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Bubbler's Medley, or a Sketch of the Times', 1720. Shares in the South Sea Company rose through overheated speculation causing the South Sea Bubble, when the share price collapsed after reaching a peak in September 1720. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).