Caption title., Anonymous. By Hannah More., This form of imprint was used between May 1795 and January 1796 (Spinney)., Verse begins: Near Lechlade town, in Glostershire ..., This edition has all except the price within a border consisting of intertwined ropes, one of leaf-like ornaments, the other of open ornamental dots; the words "Cheap Repository" interrupt the border in the center at the top; the two columns of text are separated by a vertical double rule., Below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price below the border: Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.---1s. 3d. for 50.---9d. for 25., Above imprint and below text, in italics: Entered at Stationers Hall., Entered in the Stationers' Register to Hannah More, 31 August 1795., The woodcut shows a family sitting by a fire at night in a room with a candle., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3 (no. 35)., Mounted on leaf 26. 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:
Sold by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, at no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country
Title from letterpress text below image., Questionable attribution to R. Newton from unverified data in local card catalog record., Imprint etched on plate, within image: [...?] W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St., Novbr. 20th, 1798., Publisher's advertisement below letterpress imprint: Of whom may be had Jacky Lloyd and Anna Davis., Seventeen stanzas of verse in letterpress below image: A doctor so prim, and a sempstress so tight, hob-a-nobb'd in some right marosquin ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Physicians -- Wedding feasts -- Lighting: Candles -- Dining rooms -- Tankards -- Literature: 'Alonzo the brave and the fair Imogine,' by Matthew Gregory Lewis -- Furniture: China -- Pictures -- Medicine: Bottles -- Animals: Cats., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Publisher:
Published by William Holland, No. 50, Oxford-Street
"A broadside satirising the Jacobite Alderman William Benn, who was involved in a drunken fight with another alderman at a London City feast because the former had proposed to the health of the Young Pretender; with an etching showing in the foreground Benn on the ground, holding in his right hand a bottle, his wig is pulled off by a dog, on the right another alderman, attacking Benn with a raised bottle, in the background a group of people looking on; with engraved title and inscriptions, and with letterpress title and verses in three columns, and with two vertical and one horizontal segment of type ornament."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wars broke out in the city
Description:
Caption title., Broadside illustrated with an etching at top of sheet (plate mark 20.3 x 33.1 cm)., First line: Draw near, ye sober citizens., and Temporary local subject terms: Animals: dog wearing a collar "Charls's [sic] Breed" and chains -- Drunken battle with wine bottles -- Bottles: wine bottles used as weapons -- Hospitals of Bethlem and Bridewell -- Gold chains -- City of London feast -- Ass's ears on William Benn -- Envelope -- Aldermen.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766. and Benn, William, 1702-1755
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, Jacobites, Dogs, and Wigs
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
Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English --England --Texts., Beauty culture --England --London --Poetry --Early works to 1800, Hairdressing --England --London --Poetry --Early works to 1800., and Women --England --London --Humor --Poetry --Early works to 1800.
Bonny baker chous’d in his bargain and Somersetshire damsel beguiled
Description:
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) S4653
Publisher:
Printed for J. Blare, at the sign of the looking-glass on London Bridge
Subject (Topic):
Bakers and bakeries --England --Poetry --Early works to 1800., Ballads, English --England --Texts., Cuckolds --England --Poetry --Early works to 1800, and Illegitimate children --England --Poetry --Early works to 1800.
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Engraved broadside with six stanzas of verse, 2 staves of music for flute at the bottom of sheet, and an illustration above title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female costume, 1720.
Caption title below vignette., Place of publication transposed from end of imprint line., Woodcut vignette at top of sheet., Poem with three stanzas., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by R. Walker, near the Duke's Palace
Caption title., "Price to gentlemen, 2d. Tradesmen and servants, 1d."--Preceding imprint statement., "Tune, O' a the airts the wind, &c.", First lines read: Ye noblemen and gentlemen / Who're come to join the fun, / To see the races o'er again, / And nymphs upon the town., and Numbered in black ink "88" lower left corner. For further information, consult library staff.