The unfortunate lovers, or, John True and Susan Mead

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Title: The unfortunate lovers, or, John True and Susan Mead
Alternative Title: John True and Susan Mead
Published / Created: [between 1736 and 1783?]
Publication Place: London? and England London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Verse begins: "Attend, ye lovers, and give an ear".
In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments.
The left woodcut is found in other broadsides with Bow Church Yard and Aldermary Church Yard imprints; the date range is that covering both imprints; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157.
Susan’s surname appears in other editions as either Massie or Mease.
Mounted on leaf 60. Copy trimmed.
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] page) : 21 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Songs
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1760
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Topic): Couples
Cemeteries
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Skulls
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Couples
Cemeteries
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Skulls
Staffs (Sticks)
England > London > 1760

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