Elizabeth Jeffryes and John Swan condemned at Chelmsford-Assizes
Description:
"John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffryes in their cell at Chelmsford prison; he is wearing shackles, standing to front, with head turned to look to left, hands clasped; she is seated to left with her right elbow on a table, on which lie open book, bottle and glass, supporting her face; probably frontispiece to the sitter's Life and Trial"--British Museum online catalogue., Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Two columns of verse below title: Behold two wretches here replete with guilt! Lamenting sorely for the blood they spilt ...
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parlt., 1752, & sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Swan, John, -1752. and Jeffryes, Elizabeth, -1752.
"Scene in a London churchyard, lit by a waning moon. An old woman, wife of Thimble, a tailor, wearing a hooded shroud, emerges from a grave beside a spade, pickaxe, skulls, &c. She threatens with two bones the terror-struck sexton who sits on the ground. He had come 'To saw off her finger, and steal the ring'. She frightens him away. The refrain: 'With her roley, poley, gammon, and spinnage Heigho! says Thimble.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Caption title from letterpress text printed below image (plate mark 18.2 x 22.9 cm)., "Tune-Heigho! says Rowley.", Two columns of verse in letterpress below title: Thimble's scolding wife lay dead ; -Heigho! says Thimble ..., Sheet trimmed to within thread margin of plate mark on two sides., and Plate numbered '510' in upper left corner.
Publisher:
Published 16 Septr. 1809 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A layout using letterpress showing the interior of Westminster Hall, layed out for the trial of William Lord Byron for killing William Chaworth in a duel; trial was held in April 1765
Description:
Caption title. and Publication date based on date of the trial.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Westminster Hall (London, England). and Byron, William Byron, Baron, 1722-1798
Perjur'd ship-carpenter and Perjured ship-carpenter
Description:
Verse begins: "In Gosport of late there a damsel did dwell,"., In four columns, with title and illustration above the first two; imprint at the foot of the fourth column, below a single rule; the columns are not divided 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., Mounted on leaf 54. 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.