The children in the wood, or, The Norfolk gentleman's last will and testament

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Title: The children in the wood, or, The Norfolk gentleman's last will and testament
Alternative Title: Norfolk gentleman's last will and testament
Contributor: Evans, J
Published / Created: [between 1793 and 1796?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Evans, no. 41, Long Lane, West Smithfield
Description: Verse begins: "Now ponder well, ye parents dear,"
In five columns with the title over the first two and with six woodcuts, one to each column but with two to the fourth; the columns are not separated by rule; the imprint is at the foot of the last column, below a single rule.
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 19. 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 33 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Single sheet verse
Songs
Broadside poems Great Britain 18th century
Ballads Great Britain 18th century
Material: 6 ill. (woodcuts) ;
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Fighting
Abondoned children
Deathbeds
Jails
Subjects: Horseback riding
Fighting
Abondoned children
Deathbeds
Jails
Great Britain > 18th century

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