Date of publication from ESTC., Verse begins: "Young lovers, for love I'd not have you despair,"., Printed in four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental type., Mounted on leaf 8. 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.
Verse -- "Cold and raw the North did blow,"., Anonymous. By Thomas D’Urfey., In four columns with the title above the first two and a woodcut above the first; the columns are not separated by rules. - A variant has "no. 41, Aldermary Church Yard"., The body of the text is set entirely in italic type., No full stop at end of title and first line of verse ends with a comma., Dated from the address in the other printing (or issue); see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Another printing (or issue), clearly from the same setting of type, has imprint "Printed and sold at no. 4, Aldermary Church Yard" (ESTC T206462)., Mounted on leaf 10. 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.
Verse - "A noble lord of high renown"., n four columns with the title above the first two; imprint at foot of the fourth column, below a single rule; the columns are not separated by 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., Another printing or issue (ESTC T43171) does not have the imprint., No full stop at end of title., Mounted on leaf 58. 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.
Verse begins: "A good old man, no matter where,"., In two columns, separated by a column of type ornaments; the title and imprint span the columns at head and foot; there is a row of type ornaments abov the imprint; all within a border of type ornaments., Price below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price an half-penny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.-9d. for 25., This form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney)., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, ’Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.’ In Library, 4th series, volume 20:3 (December 1939), 17., Description based on imperfect impression., Mounted on leaf 11. Copy trimmed with loss of imprint at the foot and "Cheap Repository" at the top., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Subject (Topic):
Fables, English, Christian life, Conduct of life, Families, Children, Fuelwood, and Older people
Caption title., In verse; without the music., On the omission of Queen Caroline's name from the liturgy., First line: Don't I look a man of sense ..., "Price One Penny."--Below imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "Kind gentlemen, will you be patient a while?". - Prefatory note and illustration taken from 'A collection of old ballads', 1723-25., Printed in five columns with the title, woodcut, and prose introduction above the first three; the columns are not separated lines of ornamental type., Full imprint reads: Northampton Printed for Robert Dicey; of whom may be had all sorts of old and new ballads, broad-sheets, histories, pictures cut in wood, and engrav'd on copper plate, &c. with finer cuts, much better printed, and cheaper than in any other place in England., Also available on microfilm. - Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1985. - 1 reel ; 35mm. - (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1491, no. 44) [For microfilm ask in Rare Books Room]., Mounted on leaf 38. Copy trimmed. In two pieces rejoined and repaired., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Verse begins: "Attend you nymphs and virgins,"., In three columns; the title and illustration above the first column; the imprint at foot of the third column, below a series of long dashes; the columns are not separated by rules., Dating based on the imprint; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 14. 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 at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard
Subject (Topic):
Songs, English, Shepherds, Shepherdesses, and Sheep