The beautiful shepherdess of Arcadia

Description

Title: The beautiful shepherdess of Arcadia
Published / Created: [1760?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane
Description: In four columns, with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by a line of ornaments.
Full stop after "daughter" in first line of verse
Verse begins: "There was a shepherd's daughter."
Date from ESTC.
Mounted on leaf 6. Copy trimmed.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Provenance: One of three volumes of ballads purchased from P. Murray Hill by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.): 20 x 34 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems 1760
Woodcuts England London 1760
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Subject (Topic): Young men
Conduct of life
Young women
Love
Courtship
Knights
Shepherdesses
Subjects: Young men > Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
Young women > Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
Love > Early works to 1800
Courtship
Knights
Shepherdesses
1760
England > London > 1760

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