Advice to Chloe

Description

Title: Advice to Chloe
Contributor: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker.
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher.
Published / Created: [1740?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: G. Bickham
Description: Title from item.
A slip-song, earlier known as "Chloe monita" and also known as "Old Darby and Joan" and "Damon's advice to Chloe" - "Dear Chloe while thus beyond measure".
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate numbered '24'.
Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional four stanzas below.
Opening words: Dear Chloe, while thus beyond measure ...
Plate from: G. Bickham's, The Musical entertainer, v.1.
Plate number erased from this impression.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. 1; May 1954.
Extent: 1 score ([1] p.) : sheet 29 x 19 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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