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
New map of Rome showing its ancient and present situation
Description:
BEIN 1973 Folio 10: Sheet measures 52 x 61.2 cm. Bookplate of José M. Rodriguez. No. 20 of 63 maps bound together., Plan view Rome, Italy with relief shown pictorially., Oriented with north towards left., "I. Harris, sculp.", and Bar scales in "500 paces containing half an Italian mile" and "528 paces being half an English mile."
Publisher:
By Christopher Browne at the Globe near the west end of St. Pauls
Title from accompanying List of plates published by Boydell., Alternative title etched below image., "From the original drawing, in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire.", "No. 115"--Lower left corner., Plate published in: Liber veritatis, or, A collection of two hundred prints / engraved by Richard Earlom from the original drawings owned by the Duke of Devonshire. London: Boydell and Co., 1777., The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., See Object file for copy of the correspondence between E. Manwaring and W.S. Lewis., and Probably one of the set owned by Horace Walpole and later dispersed. See A.T. Hazen, Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no 3669.
Publisher:
Published Septr 1st. 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682
Subject (Topic):
Views, Colosseum (Rome, Italy), and Triumphal arches