The broken contract, or, The betrayed virgin's complaint

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Title: The broken contract, or, The betrayed virgin's complaint
Alternative Title: Betrayed virgin's complaint
Contributor: Bowley, Mary, printer.
Published / Created: [not before 1799?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed by M. Bowley, No. 96, Aldergate Street, London
Description: Verse begins: "You maidens all, I pray give ear,"
In four columns with the title and illustrations above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules; the imprint is at the foot of the last column, beneath a single rule.
In this edition the two woodcuts from left to right depic a child and a woman playing a piano.
Imprint below fourth column.
Mary Bowley is not recorded as printing before 1799. See Maxted, I. London book trade, 1775-1800.
Mounted on leaf 16. 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 32 cm
Language: English

Genre: Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1760
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Subject (Topic): English poetry
Pianos
Children
Subjects: English poetry > 18th century
Pianos
Children
England > London > 1760

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