Caption title., A broadside with a collection of songs., In verse., Price following imprint: Price twopence., and Backed with cloth and mounted to 61 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Catnach, 2 Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Caption title., Date based on publisher J. Jennings's activity dates. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 107., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: In Ireland so frisky, with sweet girls and whisky ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Jennings, No. 15, Water-lane, Fleet-street
Caption title., Date based on publisher T. Evans's activity dates. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 66., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: There was an ancient fair, O she lov'd a neat young man ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., Date based on publisher J. Jennings's activity dates. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 107., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: I sigh and lament me in vain ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Jennings, No. 15, Water Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.
Caption title., Date based on publisher J. Jennings's activity dates. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 107., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: When absent from her ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Jennings, No. 13, Water-lane, Fleet-street, London
In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two and a woodcut near the foot of the third; the columns are not separated by rules., Verse begins: "Part I. Country John's unfortunate ramble to London; or, the tricks of a town jilt" begins with "You young men that down in the country dwell,"., Date from ESTC., Mounted on leaf 20. 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.
In two columns with the title in a ribbon atop a woodcut below stanza one. Stanzas 2 and 3 below image. A sailor at a seaside tavern (Jack Ocum) dances with a young woman as he holds his tankard. The fiddle music is played by a man who stands beside a woman in the tavern doorway. In the distance on the right is a sailing ship and along the shore, two men in a row boat
Alternative Title:
Oddities. Song
Description:
Title from item., One of the songs from Charles Dibdin's 'The oddities', first presented in 1789., First line reads: A sailor's life's a life of woe., Imprint transposed from above around lower edge of image and from the bottom of the sheet., Anonymous. By Charles Dibdin., and Not in ESTC.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Pitts, Great Saint Andrew St. ; Sold by C. Sheppard, Lambert Hill, Doctors Commons
Verse -- "You gallant beaus of pleasure,". -, In five columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first three; the imprint spans the bottom of the last two, below a series of long dashes; the columns are separated by columns of ornamental rules and type ornaments., 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 27. 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:
Sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Husband and wife, Money, Prostitution, Wealth, Swine, Dogs, Chickens, Roosters, and Birds
Verse begins: "In a tavern kitchen, the cook's territories,"., In three columns with the title above the first two and the woodcut above the first; the imprint at foot of the third, below a row of type ornaments; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., There is no punctuation at the end of the title., 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 52. 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 at the Printing-Office, in Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Taverns (Inns), Household employees, Women, Social conditions, and Man-woman relationships