The fair in an uproar, or, The dancing-doggs : as they perform in Mr. Pinkeman's new opera in Bartholomew Fair

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Title: The fair in an uproar, or, The dancing-doggs : as they perform in Mr. Pinkeman's new opera in Bartholomew Fair
Alternative Title: Fair in an uproar
Dancing-doggs
Contributor: Luttrell, Narcissus, 1657-1732.
Morphew, John, publisher.
Published / Created: [1707?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers Hall
Description: Caption title.
Publication date from Foxon.
Verse begins: 'Tis well we live in such a fickle place, Where Novelty was ever follow'd more than Grace ... One Foll makes many, if't be really so, Monkies and Monsters are the best to show.
"Price 2 d."--Following imprint.
"Beware of wretched halfpenny wooden cuts."--Below imprint.
With a large woodcut below the title and preceding the letterpress text: Madamoiselle Javellot is shown on stage flanked on either side by chandeliers wtih her performing dogs in costumes in front and a musician in the background, left, behind the curtain.
Provenance: Sold at Forum Auctions, 27 September 2018, lot 192. Purchased through Jarndyce; September 2018.
Extent: 1 sheet (1 page) : 34 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Poetry
Poems
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England 1707
Material: 1 illustration ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: text
Subject (Name): Pinkethman, William, -1725
Bartholomew Fair.
Subject (Topic): Opera
Theater
Animals in human situations
Dogs
Fairs
Musicians
Theater curtains
Trained animals
Subjects: Pinkethman, William, -1725 > Poetry
Bartholomew Fair
Opera
Theater
Animals in human situations
Dogs
Fairs
Musicians
Theater curtains
Trained animals
England > 1707

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