Faithful friendship: or, Alphonso and Ganselo. To the tune of, Flying fame. ... Whether the following song is owing to the invention of the poet, or whether it is grounded upon history, I cannot say; ...

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Title: Faithful friendship: or, Alphonso and Ganselo. To the tune of, Flying fame. ... Whether the following song is owing to the invention of the poet, or whether it is grounded upon history, I cannot say; ...
Alternative Title: Alphonso and Ganselo to the tune of Flying fame
Published / Created: [1760?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: printed and sold in Bow-Church-yard
Description: Verse begins: "In stately Rome sometime did dwell".
In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.
Note within title: Note as the use of these old songs is very great in respect that many children never would have learn'd to read had they not took a delight in poring over fair Rosamond, Robin Hood ...
Mounted on leaf 40. Copy trimmed.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Volume 1, leaf 40: copy lacking imprint statement.
Provenance: One of three volumes of ballads purchased from P. Murray Hill by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : 26 x 35 cm.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 74 OL1 v. 1

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1760
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Subjects: England > London > 1760

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 10425321
Object ID (OID): 17124724