Death and the lady, or, The great messenger of mortality

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Title: Death and the lady, or, The great messenger of mortality
Alternative Title: Great messenger of mortality
Contributor: Evans, John, 1753-1820, printer.
Published / Created: [between 1793 and 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41 Long-Lane, London
Description: In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the imprint at foot of the third; the columns are separated by thick solid rules.
Verse begins: "Fair lady lay your costly robes aside,"
The verse earlier went under the title of 'The great messenger of mortality'.
'Death' precedes the first line.
Imprint below third column.
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 27. 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.) : 25 x 32 cm
Language: English

Genre: Poetry
Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1795
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Subject (Topic): Death
Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)
Death (Personification)
Hourglasses
Spears
Subjects: Death > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)
Death (Personification)
Death
Hourglasses
Spears
England > London > 1795

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