The blink-ey'd cobler

Description

Title: The blink-ey'd cobler
Published / Created: [between 1775 and 1783?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary, Church Yard
Description: Verse begins: "All you that delight in merriemnt,"
In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.
Imprint below fourth column.
Another printing (ESTC T207047), apparently from the same setting of type, has no imprint.
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 11. 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.) : 22 x 30 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Poetry
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England 18th century
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Subject (Topic): Man-woman relations
Moral and ethical aspects
Seduction
Pregnancy
Weddings
Shoemakers
Eating & drinking
Subjects: Man-woman relations > Moral and ethical aspects > Early works to 1800
Seduction > Poetry
Pregnancy > Poetry
Weddings
Shoemakers
Eating & drinking
England > 18th century

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