The jovial batchelor[ca. 1775?]engVerse begins: "My friend I would have you take my advice,".In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by lines of ornamental type. Toward the foot of column two begins "The maiden's answer.".Date conjectured by cataloguer based on other editions of this work.Imprint below last column, separate by a single rule.In this edition, the illustration above the second column is of a man and a woman seated, bodies touching, with no tree. In another edition with an almost identical imprint (ESTC N70831), the illustration depicts a man and a woman standing, slightly apart, with a tree next to the man.Mounted on leaf 62. Copy trimmed.Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.