Caption title, on either side of woodcut showing a naked woman holding the hand of a child, also naked., Place and date of publication based on provence: formerly bound in a collection of chapbooks published in Lichfield in the 1770s., First line: The diversions of this meeting is expected to be very splendid; and, for the better information of the votaries at the shrine of Venus ..., Five lines of verse on either side of woodcut: [The] sportsmen who are free and willing, To feel, you're welcome for a shilling ... This is what we call a trade., A broadside advertising the services and skills of woman and brothels, with some prices., Not in ESTC., and Broadsides printed on laid paper and mounted in an album bound in red, quarter-leather morocco with Cockerell-marbled boards and vellum corners, with black-leather, gilt-stamped spine label. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, England., and London.
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Prostitutes, Prostitution, Children, and Unmarried mothers
Caption title., Date from entry for Carrall in British Book Trade index., In verse., First line: Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside ..., Woodcut image: a scene in a room with two windows and a table with a lighted candle. On the right Death wearing a crown and holding an arrow and hourglass stands next to a lady who is holding her child's hand. Beside the child stands a gentleman (doctor). On the ground at Death's feet are a shovel and emblems of power(?)., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Carrall, printer, Walmgate, York
Subject (Topic):
Death, Death (Personification), Children, Hourglasses, Mothers, and Physicians
Verse begins: "A good old man, no matter where,"., In two columns, separated by a column of type ornaments; the title and imprint span the columns at head and foot; there is a row of type ornaments abov the imprint; all within a border of type ornaments., Price below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price an half-penny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.-9d. for 25., This form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney)., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, ’Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.’ In Library, 4th series, volume 20:3 (December 1939), 17., Description based on imperfect impression., Mounted on leaf 11. Copy trimmed with loss of imprint at the foot and "Cheap Repository" at the top., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Subject (Topic):
Fables, English, Christian life, Conduct of life, Families, Children, Fuelwood, and Older people