A broadside with seven verses in letterpress below an engraving, representing three Red Indian Chiefs in their national costumes -- "The Stalking Turkey", "The Pouting Pidgeon", "The Man killer". This satire written on the occasion of the arrival in London of three chiefs of the Cherokee Nation, on an embassy to the Court of George III, and the impression these envoys produced on the English
Description:
Caption title., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Bowditch's annotations on mounting sheet., Annotated in an unknown hand below verse., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm; some damage to edges and lower corners.
Publisher:
Sold by the author, opposite the Union Coffee-House, in the Strand, near Temple-Bar, and by all the print and pamphlet seller[s]
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Verse begins: "When first I came to London town,"., In two columns with the title in four lines centered above both; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 55. 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.
Caption title., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: -- Cards, bills, &c. cheap and neatly printed., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: Ye wives of Britain's Isle resent the suff'rings of our Queen ..., Printed on same sheet with another slip song: A new song. Royal Caroline. Tune, -- Soldiers gratitude., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Catnach, printer, 2, Monmouth-Court
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Title from text printed in letterpress above image., Imprint statement in letterpress near lower edge of sheet., Active datesof publisher according to British Museum catalogue: ca. 1814-1815., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record: 1817., Three columns of verse in letterpress below image: Come all you merry jades, who love to play the game ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by T. Batchelar, 115 Long Alley, Moorfields
Title printed below design on the plate and continuously on the sheet below plate mark., Three columns of verse in 17 stanzas below title: Young Damon and Phyllis whose hearts were entwined, Who felt for each other a flame, Oft talked of the vows that ought lovers to bind ..., Parody of a ballad of the same title in The Monk by M.G. Lewis., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: parlor -- Architectural details: wainscot -- Wedding feast -- Emotions: fear -- Food: suckling pig -- Roasted poultry -- Table-settings -- Reference to Charles Few., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1798 [date mostly trimmed].
Publisher:
Published 4th June 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Verse begins: "Henry our royal King would ride a hunting,"., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., In four columns with the title above the first two and imprint below the last two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Mounted on leaf 5. 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.
Princely song of King Richard, sirnamed Cordelion, and of his bold courage and lamentable death
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC., "A noble Christian warrior,". - In five columns with the title, prose introduction and woodcut above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules., Full imprint statement reads: Northampton, Printed by William Dicey, of whom may be had all sorts of old and new ballads, broadsheets, histories, copper plates, pictures cut in wood, &c. much better printed, and cheaper than at any other place in England., 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. 2.
An illustrated handbill describing the execution of Joseph Wall, former Governor of Goree, for unlawful execution in 1782 of Serjeant B. Armstrong. The large woodcut illustration depicts the punishment devised by Wall and shows the victim being whipped by presumably enslaved "black men" described in detail in the verses below
Description:
Caption title., Printed in two columns., Partially in verse; the short description of Wall's execution is followed by a six stanza poem, with the heading "A copy of verses on the melancholy occasion.", Publisher's advertisement following imprint: - Where may be had, price 6d. the Trial of Governor Wall, including a biographical account of his life, and the whole particulars of his execution., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Davenport, 6, George's Court, St. John's Gate, London
Subject (Name):
Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802,
Subject (Topic):
Punishment & torture, Whipping, and Enslaved people
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Title from first two lines of verse., Mounted on leaf 4. 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.
"God above that made all things,". - In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; imprint at the foot of the third, below a single rule; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Mounted on leaf 46. 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 and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow Lane, London
Subject (Topic):
Drinking of alchoholic beverages, Tobacco pipes, Drinking vessels, Wine, Bottles, and Smoking
