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Lewis Walpole Library
Subject (Topic)
Murder
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Published / Created:
[between 1680 and 1710?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Description:
In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; imprint below the last three; the columns are not separated by rules.
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
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and vertuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children, wickedly performed by a heathenish and blood-thirsty blackamore, their servant, the like of which cruelty and murther was never before heard of. To the tune of The lady's fall, &c. Enter’d according to order
Published / Created:
[between 1701 and 1800?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Description:
Caption title above woodcut.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and virtuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children
Published / Created:
[between 1754 and 1783]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Alternative Title:
Tragical ballad, of the unfortunate love of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor
Description:
In three columns with the title above the first two; a woodcut is in middle of the second column; imprint is below the third column; the columns are not separated by rules.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Man-woman relationships, Murder, Suicide, Courtship, Betrayal, Decapitations, Dead persons, and Daggers & swords
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A tragical ballad of the unfortunate loves of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor : together with the downfal of the brown girl
Published / Created:
[between 1793 and 1796]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Tragical ballad, of the unfortunate love of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor
Description:
Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Man-woman relationships, Murder, Suicide, Courtship, Betrayal, Hunting, Hunting dogs, Horns (Communication devices)., and Wolves
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A tragical ballad of the unfortunate loves of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor, together with the downfall of the brown girl
Published / Created:
[between 1761 and 1788]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Range of publication dates from the Bodleian Library Ballads database.
Publisher:
printed and sold by Thomas Saint
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Man-woman relationships, Murder, Suicide, Courtship, and Betrayal
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A tragical ballad on the unfortunate love of Ld Thomas and fair Eleanor: together with the downfal of the Brown girl. To a pleasant tune, call'd Lord Thomas, &c.
Published / Created:
[between 1775 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
"All ye youths of fair England,". - In six columns with the title above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules. - The same setting of type was issued both without an imprint and with a shorter imprint excluding "no. 4".
Publisher:
Printed and sold at no. 4, Aldermary Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Barnwell, George
Subject (Topic):
Murder, Criminal behavior, Prostitution, Young men, Conduct of life, Apprentices, Robbery, and Merchants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > An excellent ballad of George Barnwell : who was undone by a strumpet, who caused him to rob his master and murder his uncle
Published / Created:
[approximately 1781]
Call Number:
781.00.00.33
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Donellan, John, -1781. and Boughton, Theodosius Edward Allesley, Sir, 1760-1780.
Subject (Topic):
Murder, Clothing & dress, and Interiors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Captain Donallan rincing the bottle after poisoning Sir Theodosius Boughton [graphic].
Published / Created:
[1800?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Wittam miller
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Murder
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Berkshire tragedy, or, The Wittam miller : being an account of his murdering his sweetheart, &c.
Published / Created:
[not before 8 September 1782]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Essex
Subject (Topic):
Murder, Deaths head, Skull & crossbones, Hourglasses, and Banners
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Essex hue and cry being a true, particular, and exact account of that barbarous, bloody, cruel, and inhuman murder ...
Published / Created:
[between 1775 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Perjur'd ship-carpenter and Perjured ship-carpenter
Description:
Verse begins: "In Gosport of late there a damsel did dwell,".
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church [y]ard
Subject (Topic):
Murder, Rowboats, and Rowing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Gosport tragedy, or, The perjured ship-carpenter
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