EEBO link. This broadside describes several methods for replacing "seacole" with bricks of earth, dung, turf, or heath mixed with straw or woodchips and burned alongside coal. This method promises to save families from burning doors, chairs, etc.
What's interesting to me is that the illustration serves as a guide on how to intersperse the bricks in this coal fire. But given that the central illustration appears to have been cut off from another source, I wonder whether these illustrations are original. All the same, the diagrammatic use of illustrations for such a desperate need strikes me emotionally. This nation still had the technology to print broadsides, but not the fuel to survive the winter.
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