- Published / Created:
- [between 1793 and 1796]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Great messenger of mortality
- Description:
- In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the imprint at foot of the third; the columns are separated by thick solid rules., Verse begins: "Fair lady lay your costly robes aside,", The verse earlier went under the title of 'The great messenger of mortality'., 'Death' precedes the first line., Imprint below third column., 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. 1.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41 Long-Lane, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Death, Grim Reaper (Symbolic character), Death (Personification), Hourglasses, and Spears
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Death and the lady, or, The great messenger of mortality
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