Correct list of the sporting ladies, who are just arriv'd at these races

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Title: Correct list of the sporting ladies, who are just arriv'd at these races
Published / Created: [approximately 1780]
Publication Place: Lichfield, England?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Caption title, on either side of woodcut showing a naked woman holding the hand of a child, also naked.
Place and date of publication based on provence: formerly bound in a collection of chapbooks published in Lichfield in the 1770s.
First line: The diversions of this meeting is expected to be very splendid; and, for the better information of the votaries at the shrine of Venus ...
Five lines of verse on either side of woodcut: [The] sportsmen who are free and willing, To feel, you're welcome for a shilling ... This is what we call a trade.
A broadside advertising the services and skills of woman and brothels, with some prices.
Not in ESTC.
Provenance: In an album with the bookplate of Martin & Josephine Orskey; signed and dated by Martin Orskey, 1963 with note "bound by Bernard Middleton".
Extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 29 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Woodcuts England 1780
Broadsides
Brit tracts
Material: 1 wood engraving ;
Resource Type: text
still image
Subject (Geographic): England
England.
London.
Subject (Topic): Brothels
Prostitutes
Prostitution
Children
Unmarried mothers
Subjects: Brothels > England > Early works to 1800
Prostitutes > England > Early works to 1800
Prostitution > England
Children > England > London
Unmarried mothers
Prostitutes > England > London
England > 1780
Brit tracts > 1780

Access: Public
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