The crafty London apprentice, or, bow-bells

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Title: The crafty London apprentice, or, bow-bells
Alternative Title: Bow-bells
Published / Created: [1736 through 1763]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard, London
Description: In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by rules.
Verse begins: "You London dames, that love to range"
Imprint below the third and fourth columns.
Date from ESTC.
Mounted on leaf 23. 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.) : 20 x 33 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Humor
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 18th century
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
England
London
London (England)
Subject (Topic): Broadsides
Prostitution
Apprentices
Women
Moral and ethical aspects
Social conditions
Men
Sex
Prostitutes
Abused children
Social life and customs
Subjects: Broadsides > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
Prostitution > England > London > Early works to 1800
Apprentices > Early works to 1800
Women > Moral and ethical aspects > Early works to 1800
Women > England > London > Social conditions > Early works to 1800
Men > Moral and ethical aspects > Early works to 1800
Sex > Humor > Early works to 1800
Prostitutes
Prostitution
Abused children
London (England) > Social life and customs > 18th century
England > London > 18th century

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