A true list of the sporting ladies

Description

Title: A true list of the sporting ladies
Published / Created: [ca. 1780]
Publication Place: Lichfield, England?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Caption title.
Place and date of publication based on provence: formerly bound in a collection of chapbooks published in Lichfield in the 1770s.
First line: Miss Pure, a very neat and clean-heeled Filly, from Black Mary's Hole, near London ...
A broadside with a simple woodcut above the title, advertising the services and skills of woman, Miss Jenny Foreyard, Cleopatra Tickleback, Diana Trapes, Polly Trim, Jenny Spruce, and Lucy Pleasant.
Not in ESTC.
Broadsides printed on laid paper and mounted in an album bound in red, quarter-leather morocco with Cockerell-marbled boards and vellum corners, with black-leather, gilt-stamped spine label. For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: In an album with the bookplate of Martin & Josephine Orskey; signed and dated by Martin Orskey, 1963 with note "bound by Bernard Middleton". Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 26 June 2019, lot 203, purchased through Jarndyce; June 2019.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] page) : 31 x 18 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Woodcuts England 1780
Broadsides
Brit tracts
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Resource Type: text
still image
Subject (Geographic): England
England.
London.
Subject (Topic): Prostitutes
Prostitution
Couples
Subjects: Prostitutes > England > Early works to 1800
Prostitution > England
Couples > England > London
England > 1780
Brit tracts > 1780

Access: Public
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