The Sorrows of Yamba: or, The Negro woman's lamentation ...

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Title
The Sorrows of Yamba: or, The Negro woman's lamentation ...
Alternative Title
Cheap Repository
Negro woman's lamentation
Contributor
Marshall, John (Printer), bookseller.
White, Richard, active 1795-1796, bookseller.
Hazard, Samuel, -1806, bookseller.
Published / Created
[1795?]
Publication Place
London and England London
Publisher
Sold by J. Marshall (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts) No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheap-side, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, and R. White, Piccadilly; by S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository at Bath, and by all booksellers ...
Description
BEIN: In case: 52 cm.
Verse - "In St. Lucie's distant isle,".
At head of title: Cheap repository.
In three columns separated by columns of type ornaments (chiefly a single ornament repeated); the title spans all three columns; the illustration is above the second column. All within a border of type ornaments.
Price from imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100, 1s. 3d. for 50, 9d. for 25.
A ballad.
In this edition, "Cheap Repository" is set in parentheses in the top border of type ornaments, and "J. Marshall", "London", "S. Hazard", and "Bath" are in uppercase roman. In another edition (ESTC N3953), "Cheap Repository" is not in parentheses, and is set below the top border, separated from the title by a swelled rule, and the words quoted are set in uppercase italics.
At foot of the third column in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall.
Mounted on leaf 49. Sheet trimmed; wanting imprint statement.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Provenance
One of three volumes of ballads purchased from P. Murray Hill by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
Extent
1 sheet ([1] p.) : 45 x 29 cm.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Broadside poems
Material
ill. (woodcut) ;

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
3457102
Object ID (OID)
17124936

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