The lady and the pye, or, Know thyself

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Title: The lady and the pye, or, Know thyself
Alternative Title: Know thyself
Creator: More, Hannah, 1745-1833, author
Published / Created: [1797]
Publication Place: London? and England London
Publisher: s.n.
Description: Verse - "A worthy squire of sober life,".
Signed at foot of the second column, above the single rule: Z. [i.e. Hannah More]
Entered in the Stationers’ Register 26 June 1797, according to G.H. Spinney, "Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition" (in Library, 4th series, volume 20:3 (December 1939), no. 102). Spinney does not record a broadside edition.
The illustration is from the same block as that on the title page of the pamphlet edition of the same work (ESTC T37463), issued in Hannah More’s Cheap Repository.
In two columns, with title and illustration above both columns, at foot of the second column, below a single rule, in italics, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall.
Mounted on leaf 68. 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.
Language: English

Genre: Poetry
Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts
Subject (Name): Adam (Biblical figure)
Eve (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic): Sparrows
Fall of man
Birds
Windows
Tableware
Table settings & decorations
Tablecloths
Subjects: Adam (Biblical figure) > Poetry
Eve (Biblical figure) > Poetry
Sparrows > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Fall of man > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Birds
Windows
Tableware
Table settings & decorations
Tablecloths

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