The Berkshire lady : in four parts

Description

Title: The Berkshire lady : in four parts
Published / Created: [between 1775 and 1783]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Printed and sold at No. 4, Aldermary Churchyard
Description: Verse begins: "Batchelors of e'ery station,"
Above first line: Part 1.
In five columns undivided by rules; title and woodcut above the first two columns.
Another printing of the edition recorded in ESTC T200945 (with no full stop after "lady" in the title), and N70792; that they are of the same setting is evidenced by damaged letters and other typographical indicia.
Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157.
Mounted on leaf 9. 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] page) : 22 x 32 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1800
Material: 1 woodcut ; and blue-tinted laid paper.
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Topic): Women
Conduct of life
Heiresses
Lawyers
Bachelors
Subjects: Women > Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
Heiresses > Early works to 1800
Lawyers > Early works to 1800
Bachelors
England > London > 1800

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