Caption title., Verse begins: "Of all the callings and the trades"., Signed: Z, i.e. Hannah More., In two columns with the title and woodcut above both; title, text and imprint within a border of typographical ornaments., At head: Cheap repository., Above imprint in italics, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall., Price below imprint: [Within the border:] Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. [Below the border:] Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.-9d. for 25., T his form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney)., Mounted on leaf 55. 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 Volume 1, leaf 55: Copy trimmed within border resulting in loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Marshall, and R. White, London. By S. Hazard, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country
Verse begins: "Of a worthy London 'prentice"., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118, In four columns, with the title and illustration above the first two; the imprint is under the last two columns, below a single rule; the columns are not separated by rules., Cf. ESTC no. T36639 with imprint: Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-lane, West-Smithfield, London., Mounted on leaf 70. 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 by J. Evans, No. 41 Long-Lane, London
Countryman's description of their several trades and callings
Description:
Verse begins: "Last week in Lent I came to town"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., The second woodcut is also found in ’A song in praise of the leather-bottle’ printed in Canterbury (ESTC T49424), probably printed by James Abree who was active between 1717 and 1768., Mounted on leaf 58. 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.
Verse begins: "My friend I would have you take my advice,"., In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by lines of ornamental type. Toward the foot of column two begins "The maiden's answer."., Date conjectured by cataloguer based on other editions of this work., Imprint below last column, separate by a single rule., In this edition, the illustration above the second column is of a man and a woman seated, bodies touching, with no tree. In another edition with an almost identical imprint (ESTC N70831), the illustration depicts a man and a woman standing, slightly apart, with a tree next to the man., 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. 1.
Publisher:
Sold at Sympson's printing-office, in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet-Market
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Man-woman relationships, Marriage, Bachelors, Single women, Men, Social life and customs, Eating & drinking, Driniking vessels, Tobacco pipes, and Women
Verse - "You subjects of England, come listen a while;"., In three columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Date of publication from ESTC., Mounted on leaf 64. 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:
s.n.
Subject (Name):
William III, King of England, 1650-1702
Subject (Topic):
Kings and rulers, Horseback riding, Hunting, Deer, and Bloodhounds
Verse - "A worthy squire of sober life,"., Signed at foot of the second column, above the single rule: Z. [i.e. Hannah More], Entered in the Stationers’ Register 26 June 1797, according to G.H. Spinney, "Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition" (in Library, 4th series, volume 20:3 (December 1939), no. 102). Spinney does not record a broadside edition., The illustration is from the same block as that on the title page of the pamphlet edition of the same work (ESTC T37463), issued in Hannah More’s Cheap Repository., In two columns, with title and illustration above both columns, at foot of the second column, below a single rule, in italics, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall., Mounted on leaf 68. 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:
s.n.
Subject (Name):
Adam (Biblical figure) and Eve (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Sparrows, Fall of man, Birds, Windows, Tableware, Table settings & decorations, and Tablecloths
Anonymous. By Thomas Deloney., Verse begins: "When as King Henry rul'd this land,", In five columns, with the title and illustration above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules; the imprint is at the foot of the last column, below a single rule., 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 39. 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 Church Yard
Subject (Name):
Henry II, King of England, 1133-1189 and Clifford, Rosamond, -1176?
Subject (Topic):
Kings, Queens, Mistresses, Chalices, Daggers & swords, and Veils
Delahoy, James, approximately 1757-approximately 1835], author, printer
Published / Created:
[not after 1785?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Dedicated to the sisterhood of the rotundos
Description:
Verse begins: "Dear Aunt, my mother's hoop is come,"., In two columns, with the title spanning both at head and the imprint spanning both at foot, below a single rule made of long dashes; all within a border of type ornaments., Text signed at end: J.D., Dedication text precedes title: Dedicated to the Sisterhood of the Rotundos., Pricing statement below imprint: (Price one penny)., According to an account of James Delahoy’s daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Omer Delahoy, he was active in Blackfriars until moving to Deptford, where his earliest imprints are dated 1786. See the entry Elizabeth Omer Delahoy in Nonconformist and Dissenting Women (https://www.nonconformistwomenwriters1650-1850.com/printers-and-booksellers-1690-1825/delahoy-elizabeth-omer)., Mounted on leaf 46. 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 by J. Delahoy at his New Oddity Shop, No. 36, Waterlane, Black-Friars
Verse - "A noble young 'squire that liv'd in the west,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the first and second as well as the third and fourth columns are separated by ornamental rules., Range of publication dates from the Bodleian Library Ballads database., In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the first and second as well as the third and fourth columns are separated by lines of ornamental type. Imprint below ornamental line in third and fourth columns., 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. 2.