Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "In summer-time when leaves grow green,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 33. 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 by L. How
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Brigands and robbers, Broadsides, Bows (Archery)., Arrows, Spears, and Forests
Date from ESTC., Verse - "Come you gallants all, to you I call,". - In four columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 36. 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.
Illustration to printed verses: A man and wife, both in fur hoods, &c, stand outside a small hut in a snow scene. She threatens him with her fists. In the background a reindeer draws a sleigh
Alternative Title:
Lock'd jaw and frost-bitten nose and Locked jaw and frost-bitten nose
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Text in letterpress immediately following title: (The Music sold by Messrs. Goulding and Co. New Bond Street.)., Three columns of verse in letterpress near lower portion of sheet: A youth took a wife, for joy or for strife..., and Plate numbered in upper left corner: 502.
Publisher:
Publish'd Dec. 1, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A slip song with the refrain "Derry down, down, &c" addressed to constituents of Middlesex to vote for independent radical candidates George Byng and Sir Francis Burdett in the upcoming local election of 1802
Alternative Title:
Independent electors of Middlesex
Description:
Caption title., In verse., First lines: Rouse, rouse, freedom's sons! all your efforts unite, Make choise of tried men, Independedt, upright; ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Abraham, Clement's Lane
Subject (Name):
Byng, George, 1764-1847., Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844., and Great Britain. Parliament
Above the engraved poem, an illlustration shows an angry-faced Jove seated in the clouds surrounded by gods and goddesses including Apollo, seated with his lyre and Momus in a hester's cap with bells. Jove holds a fist full of thunderbolts as he glares at the petition at his feet. In the background is a circular temple ablaze with rays of light. Above Pegasus leaps from Mount Helicon
Description:
Title from item., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., and "The constitutional song of the Anacreontic Society, sung by the Chairman or his deputy after the supper which followed the fortnightly concert." See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Music, Societies, etc.--, Gods, Greek, and Petitions
Caption title in letterpress below image., Letterpress broadside song illustrated with etching (design 15.5 x 25 cm) at top of sheet. Title on plate: "Totus mundus agit histrionem." Signed in lower right corner: Tho. Booth sculp., Dated by Stephens 1725 from the British Museum impression that lacks the song and imprint., Sheet trimmed close to design and letterpress resulting in minor loss of title., "To the tune of Gossip Joan.", Sixteen stanzas of song in three columns below title: Ye peers, ye cits and beaux who haunt pit, box and gall'ry ..., Describes a fight between two actresses, Kitty Clive and Peg Woffington, which took place in 1746 when Henry IV was performed at Drury Lane, as related by Thomas Davies in his Dramatic miscellanies, 1784, v. 1, p. 231-3. The subjects in the print were identified by Horace Walpole (1717-1797) in his copy of Davies' Miscellanies., Temporary local subject terms: Theaters: Green Room, Drury Lane -- Actors: Owen MacSwinney and James Raftor., and Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd persuant to act of Parliament, Jan. 29, 1746, by G. Foster on Ludgate-Hill, and sold at the print and pamphlet shop in London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, and Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Verse begins: "You mortals all who deal unjust,"., In four columns with the title above the first two and the imprint below the fourth column; the columns are separated by rules of ornamental type., Mounted on leaf 32. 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 the Printing offices, Stonecutter Street, Fleet Market
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Incest, Fathers and daughters, Pregnancy, Apprentices, and Social life and customs
"A fashionably dressed man (left) regards apprehensively a young woman (right) who holds out her fists as if sparring; he makes as if to depart. Both have Jewish features and curling hair. On the wall are three boxing pictures: 'The Game Chicken', half length, flanked by men sparring. The Jew relates with Jewish pronunciation his attempts to find a wife. Miss Devy jilted him, Miss Rachel's father sold watches and rings: 'And dere vas nothing to do but buy de ring out of her fader's shop - but ve couldn't agree about de price . . .' Then Miss Moses: 'Her Broder vash mighty rich, and got money in de shtocks, He vashn't so vulgar to get it by trade, but taught de great people to spa and to box.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls; plate numbered in lower left corner: 434., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Fourty-three lines of verse arranged in two columns below image: First, dere vash Miss Devy, pretty Miss Devy ..., and Watermark: Ivy Mill 1812.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 12, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
