Wandering young, gentlewoman's garland and Cat-skin
Description:
Verse in five parts begins: "You fathers and mothers and children also,"., Imprint address is enclosed within parentheses., In four columns with the title over the first two; imprint below the last two, below a single rule; the columns are not separated by rules., 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 76. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
(Printed and sold at No. 41 Long-Lane, West-Smithfield, London,)
Subject (Topic):
Fathers and daughters, Parent and child, Household employees, and Education
Wanton virgins frighted and Old man strangely surprized and bugbear'd by the black bandileers and buff-coats
Description:
Verse - "You that delight in a jocular song,"., In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 62. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-Land [sic], London
Subject (Topic):
Single women, Swimming, Nudes, Women, Lakes & ponds, Voyeurism, and Trees
Verse - "In Bath a wanton wife did dwell,"., What appears to be the same setting of type was also issued with imprint: Sold at no. 42, Long Lane; dated from that address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157. Appearance of woodcut suggests this issue preceded one with imprint., In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 63. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
J. Evans?
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Topic):
Repentance, Women, Moral and ethical aspects, Heaven, and Gates
Caption title., First line: On Friday night 24th ult. a murder was committed at a place about 6 miles from the town of Watford, Herts. ..., Printed in four columns. With two large woodcuts beneath the title illustrating the murder and the discovery of the body. A third, smaller woodcut depicting the burial of the victim appears in the lower right, above a poem with the heading "A copy of verses": A horrid deed I will relate, but newly brought to light, a deed so foul and barbarous, you've seldom heard the like ..., The Radlett murder, also know as the Elstree murder. The victim was William Weare was murdered by John Thurtell, who owed him a gambling debt, and his accomplices Joseph Hunt and William Probert., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Catnach, printer, 2, Monmouth-Ct., 7 Dials, London
Subject (Geographic):
England, Hertfordshire., and England.
Subject (Name):
Weare, William, -1823., Thurtell, John, 1794-1824., Hunt, Joseph, active 19th century., and Probert, William, -1825.
Caption title., Date based on publisher John Pitts's street address. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 151., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: A poor soul sat sighing beneath a tall tree ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Pitts, No. 14, Great Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Title page in red and black., With a half-title., In this edition the last line of the Dunciad is correctly numbered 620., Horizontal chain lines., Signatures: [A]², B-E⁸, F⁴ (F4 blank), ²A-H⁸, I²., and One of ten volumes rebound in mottled calf by Riviere for Sir William Fraser (1826-1898), three of which are added volumes not Horace Walpole's. With Horace Walpole's bookplate 1 and press-mark K.5.22 in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763 (marked 9 vols. but only 7 were sold); moved to the Glass Closet. Also with bookplates of Sir William Fraser, Beverly Chew, and James Wyckoff.
Playbill advertising a performance at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham which principally takes the form of an apology announcing that the lead of the evening's entertainment, Italian opera singer Angelica Catalani (1780-1849), is unable to attend due to ill health. The soprano's appearance had been much publicised by the local press, hence the need to justify her absence by publishing a communication by the attending doctor
Alternative Title:
Mr. Bartley most respectfully begs leave to inform the public ...
Description:
Caption title. and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
[J]onathan Knott, printer, Birmingham
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Theatre Royal (Birmingham, England), Catalani, Angelica, 1780-1849., Centlivre, Susanna, 1667?-1723., and Birch, Samuel, 1757-1841.
A mock playbill concerning the trial of Queen Caroline., Printed in letterpress., "Places to be taken at the Great House in Pall Mall or at the theatre. No money returned. Vivant rex et regina.", and Mounted on page 22 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
