The bloody gardener's cruelty, or, The shepherd's daughter betray'd.

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Title: The bloody gardener's cruelty, or, The shepherd's daughter betray'd.
Alternative Title: Shepherd's daughter betray'd
Shepherd's daughter betrayed
Contributor: Evans, John, active 1794-1799, printer, bookseller.
Published / Created: [between 1793 and 1796?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Evans, no. 41 Long-lane, Westsmithfield, London
Description: Caption title.
First verse - "Come all you constant lovers, and to me lend an ear,"
In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the imprint is below the last column, under a single rule composed of long dashes.
Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118.
Mounted on leaf 12. 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.) : 21 x 27 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Poetry
Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1800
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Topic): Marriage
Social aspects
Parental consent
Murder
Arranged marriage
Doves
Nets
Elk
Subjects: Marriage > Social aspects > Great Britain > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Marriage > Parental consent > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Murder > Great Britain > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Arranged marriage > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Doves
Nets
Elk
England > London > 1800

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