Dame Andrews : a ballad

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Description

Title
Dame Andrews : a ballad
Alternative Title
Cheap Repository
Creator
More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Contributor
Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.
Hazard, Samuel, -1806, bookseller.
White, Richard, active 1795-1796, bookseller.
Published / Created
[1795 or 1796]
Publication Place
London and England London
Publisher
Sold by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, at no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country
Description
Caption title.
Anonymous. By Hannah More.
This form of imprint was used between May 1795 and January 1796 (Spinney).
Verse begins: Near Lechlade town, in Glostershire ...
This edition has all except the price within a border consisting of intertwined ropes, one of leaf-like ornaments, the other of open ornamental dots; the words "Cheap Repository" interrupt the border in the center at the top; the two columns of text are separated by a vertical double rule.
Below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price below the border: Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.---1s. 3d. for 50.---9d. for 25.
Above imprint and below text, in italics: Entered at Stationers Hall.
Entered in the Stationers' Register to Hannah More, 31 August 1795.
The woodcut shows a family sitting by a fire at night in a room with a candle.
This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3 (no. 35).
Mounted on leaf 26. 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.) : 32 x 19 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Broadsides
Ballads
Woodcuts England London 1795
Material
woodcut ;
Subject (Topic)
Candles
Fireplaces
Sewing
Reading
Subjects
Candles
Fireplaces
Sewing
Reading
England > London > 1795

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
10422617
Object ID (OID)
17124710

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