- Published / Created:
- [between 1680 and 1710?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Description:
- In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; imprint below the last three; the columns are not separated by rules., Date range conjectural; other ballads with similar imprints are also undated; printer’s name conjectured from other imprints recorded by Wing., Verse begins: "In Rome a nobleman did wed"., In this setting line 24 begins with "straight"., Not in Wing., Mounted on leaf 52. Copy trimmed., Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1., and Sheet in two pieces repaired and mounted as one piece.
- Publisher:
- Printed by and for C.B. [Brown?] and sold by J. Walter, at the Hand and Pen in High Holborn
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and vertuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children, wickedly performed by a heathenish and blood-thirsty blackamore, their servant, the like of which cruelty and murther was never before heard of. To the tune of The lady's fall, &c. Enter’d according to order
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1701 and 1800?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Description:
- Caption title above woodcut., Date range conjectural., Verse begins: "In Rome a nobleman did wed"., In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules., In this setting line 24 begins with "and"., Mounted on leaf 51. 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 (Geographic):
- Rome (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and virtuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children
- Published / Created:
- printed in this present year [1760?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Young man's tragedy
- Description:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Barbara Allen's cruelty, or, The young man's tragedy : with Barbara Allen's lamentation for her unkindness to her lover, and her ownself [sic]. Licensed and entered according to order
- Published / Created:
- [between 1775 and 1783]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Verse begins: "Batchelors of e'ery station,", Above first line: Part 1., In five columns undivided by rules; title and woodcut above the first two columns., Another printing of the edition recorded in ESTC T200945 (with no full stop after "lady" in the title), and N70792; that they are of the same setting is evidenced by damaged letters and other typographical indicia., 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 9. 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:
- Printed and sold at No. 4, Aldermary Churchyard
- Subject (Topic):
- Women, Conduct of life, Heiresses, Lawyers, and Bachelors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Berkshire lady : in four parts
5.
- Published / Created:
- [1800?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Wittam miller
- Description:
- Caption title., Date of publication from English short title catalogue., Verse begins: "Young men and maidens all give"., In five columns with the title above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 8. 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:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Murder
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Berkshire tragedy, or, The Wittam miller : being an account of his murdering his sweetheart, &c.
- Published / Created:
- [1750?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Verse - "A sailor courted a farmer's daughter,". - In four columns with the title and an ornamental rule above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 53. 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):
- Courtship, Man-woman relationships, Young men, Conduct of life, Young women, Sailors, and Wealth
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Goodhurst garland. In three parts
- Published / Created:
- [1788?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Epistle to his friend Billy on a visit to his Mamma in Somersetshire
- Description:
- Caption title., Verse begins: "Haste my dear Billy Pitt,"., Date of publication from English short title catalogue., Twelve stanzas numbered with roman numerals arranged in two columns with title centered above., Westminster election handbill., Lewis Walpole Library copy: Ms. inscriptions inserted into and below title. "Woods" inserted after Admiral in title and "A Westminster electioneering song" inserted below title., Mounted on leaf 1. Copy trimmed with loss of first word in title: The., Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3., and Ms. inscriptions inserted into and below title. "Woods" inserted after Admiral in title and "A Westminster electioneering song" inserted below title.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Political campaigns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The admiral's lamentation, or, An epistle to his friend Billy, on a visit to his Mamma in Somersetshire. To the tune of "Come let us prepare,".
- Published / Created:
- [1790?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Lady's policy
- Description:
- In five columns with the title and two woodcuts (one framed) above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules and the final two columns are in italic., A song in five columns: "There was a kinght [sic] was drunk with wine ...", Mounted on leaf 4. 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):
- Songs, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The baffled knight, or, The lady's policy
- Published / Created:
- [1795 or 1796]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Description:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The old man, his children, and the bundle of sticks : a fable
- Published / Created:
- [between 1757 and 1784?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Windsor miser outwitted
- Description:
- Verse in three parts begins: "Of all the merry folicks"., In five columns; the title spans the first two columns; the imprint spans the foot of the third through fifth columns; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Atkinson, "Street literature printing in Stonecutter Street (1740s-1780s)", Publishing history 78 (2018), 1-45., Mounted on leaf 66. 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 Sympson's Warehouse, in Stonecutter Street, Fleet-Market
- Subject (Topic):
- Courtship, Deception, and Man-woman relationships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The politick lovers, or, The Windsor miser outwitted