A choice pennyworth of wit

Description

Title: A choice pennyworth of wit
Contributor: John Evans & Co., printer, bookseller.
Published / Created: [between 1791 and 1803?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Evans and Co. 41 Long-lane West-Smithfield
Description: Verse in three parts begins: "Here is a penny-worth of wit".
Printed in five columns with the title and imprint above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.
Full stop at end of title and no punctutation at end of the first line of verse.
Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118.
Mounted on leaf 13. Copy trimmed.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Provenance: One of three volumes of ballads purchased from P. Murray Hill by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 22 x 35 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Subject (Topic): Prostitution
Husband and wife
Adultery
Merchants
Wealth
Subjects: Prostitution > Early works to 1800
Husband and wife > Early works to 1800
Adultery > Early works to 1800
Merchants > Early works to 1800
Wealth > Early works to 1800

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