The life and death of the Duke of Berwick

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Title: The life and death of the Duke of Berwick
Published / Created: [between 1736 and 1763?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard, London
Description: Verse: Assist me ye muses, I pray lend your aid.
Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157.
Printed in three columns with a woodcut above the first, and the title above the first two; imprint at foot of the third, below a single rule; the columns are not separated by rules.
Mounted on leaf 29. 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.) : 36 x 24 cm. (obl. 1/2°)
Language: English

Genre: Poetry
Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems 1734
Woodcuts England London 1734
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Berwick, James Fitzjames, Duke of, 1670-1734
Shore, Jane, -1527?.
Subject (Topic): War
Death
Battle casualities
Heroes
Subjects: Berwick, James Fitzjames, Duke of, 1670-1734 > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Shore, Jane, -1527?.
War > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Death > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Battle casualities > Early works to 1800
Heroes > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
1734
England > London > 1734

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