The peace-botchers : a new, satyrical, political medley, being a parody on the celebrated one of Macheath's, in the Beggar's Opera

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Title
The peace-botchers : a new, satyrical, political medley, being a parody on the celebrated one of Macheath's, in the Beggar's Opera
Creator
Disconsolate Englishman
Contributor
Williams, John, active 1767-1772, publisher.
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Published / Created
[1762]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Sold by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, in Fleet-Street, and to be had at all the booksellers and print-shops, in London and Westminster
Description
Title from item.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
A song "O cruel, cruel, cruel case!"
With reference to the Treaty of Paris, 1763.
Printed on the same sheet as: 'A rum letter to a rum duke on a rum occasion by a rum Fogerum', [London?, 1762]; possibly intended to be separated.
Publisher's advertisement following imprint.
Not in NUC under title or pseudonym. Date in GK ca.1762. Williams in ESTC printers index at the Mitre in 1763. Not in ESTC or Firth cat. of other works. MH-H report this printed on the same sheet as 'A rum letter'; verified by exchange of xeroxes between ESTC/BL and ESTC/NA
Mounted to 39 x 28 cm.
Provenance
Marlborough Rare Books; May 1999;
Extent
1 sheet ; 1/4to.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
762.09.00.38+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires England London 1762
Broadside poems
Publishers' advertisements .
Subjects
England > London > 1762

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Orbis Record
4468685
Object ID (OID)
10713106

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