Card, valentine card

Comic valentine's card printed as a woodcut on cheap paper with a caricature of a cigar maker. The print is crudely coloured and below is printed a verse 'Pray hide your head, you vile Cigar-making Rogue. Your tricks with lettuce-leaves has long been in vogue, And as if that was not quite roguery enough, Your rank cabbage leaves mix and saw-dust your snuff, If such a vile knave had his proper desert You'd be pump'd on, naked and hung in your shirt! I'll expose you, and take out of you your shine. For a dishonest unprincipled Valentine.' One of a collection of sample comic valentines bound in a single volume, stored within a wooden case. On the spine of the case is a label 'Comic'. One of a series of valentine's cards relating to various trades.