In four columns with the title and a woodcut above the first two; the first and second columns as well as the third and fourth columns are separated by ornamental rules., First line of verse: In Scarlet Town where I was bound., In this edition "Licensed and entered according to order" is in roman type and sandwiched by rules made up of cherubim in the main., Mounted on leaf 5. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Young men, Conduct of life, Young women, Love, and Funeral processions
Caption title., Dated at head: December, 28, 1784., The tickets could be had of William Ludlow, deputy clerk of the markets., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., An address to Lord Hood and Pitt expressing outrage at a riot of sailors in Westminster and the damage done to the tradesmen in the area, on top of the grinding taxes imposed by the Pitt admisitration., Signed: An independent shopkeeper., "Bond-Street, Friday evening, July 25, 1788.", Westminster election handbill., Not in ESTC., and Partial watermark. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, and England.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1788, Retail trade, Taxation, Public opinion, and Sailors
Title from text at top of sheet., A decree of the Common Council of Bristol signed: Cann., The wood-engraved of the Bristol city arms is between "Civitas" and "Bristol.", and For further information, consult library staff.
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
Art of painting and Short account of the most eminent painters both ancient and modern
Description:
Signatures: [pi]² a-h⁴ B-2Y⁴ 2Z²., Translation of: De arte graphica., Added title-page, engraved by S. Gribelin., Title page in red and black., Includes the original poem in Latin; translated from the French version of R. de Piles., 'A short account of the most eminent painters ... ' [by R. Graham] has special title-page., Errata: p. [356], Original panelled calf; it was quite probably a copy kept in the house in town and bequeathed to Lady Waldegrave. Mr. Harris Prior of Geneva, N.Y., also owns a copy of the edition of 1695, in which Horace Walpole's bookplate has been inserted., and Laid in is the lining paper of a copy of this edition in which Horace Walpole's bookplate had been inserted, owned by Harris Prior. No press mark was found. With four architectural sketches in pencil on front flyleaf.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Heptinstall for W. Rogers, at the Sun against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet
Title from first words of text. and Broadside concerning the health and safety regulations for an early balloon ascent in Germany. The rules drawn up by the city of Nuremberg in preparation for Jean-Pierre Blanchard's momentous balloon flight over the city on 12 November 1787 are listed.