Prize beef or luxury in the nineteenth century

Pubd, Jany 7th 1802 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly\n No. 4./ London 15th January/ 1802./ The cattle breeders now do an annoying mischief with their/ fattened cattle which are just as inedible as unhealthy. An ox that has received the price because of its feistiness/ sells for enormous money. The Times, above all other newspapers, have been full of mockery about this folly./ How far this goes can be seen in the following quotation from a quite new magnificent work in Imperial Quarto that costs colourirt £. 1.11.6. costs:/ Portraits of prize cattle and South down sheep together with/ the proceedings of the Sussex agricultural Society by Ed-/ mund Scott engraver to the Duke of York. Robinsons.