Barbara Allen's cruelty, or, The young man's tragedy : with Barbara Allen's lamentation for her unkindness to her lover, and her ownself [sic]. Licensed and entered according to order

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Title: Barbara Allen's cruelty, or, The young man's tragedy : with Barbara Allen's lamentation for her unkindness to her lover, and her ownself [sic]. Licensed and entered according to order
Alternative Title: Young man's tragedy
Published / Created: printed in this present year [1760?]
Publication Place: Newcastle
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: In four columns with the title and a woodcut above the first two; the first and second columns as well as the third and fourth columns are separated by ornamental rules.
First line of verse: In Scarlet Town where I was bound.
In this edition "Licensed and entered according to order" is in roman type and sandwiched by rules made up of cherubim in the main.
Mounted on leaf 5. Copy trimmed.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Provenance: One of three volumes of ballads purchased from P. Murray Hill by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : 19 x 33 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 74 OL1 v. 1

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Early works to 1800
Broadside poems 1760
Woodcuts England London 1760
Single sheet verse
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Topic): Young men
Conduct of life
Young women
Love
Funeral processions
Subjects: Young men > Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
Young women > Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
Love > Early works to 1800
Funeral processions
1760
England > London > 1760

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Orbis Record: 10293550
Object ID (OID): 17124689