The famous flower of serving-men, or, The lady turned serving man

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Title: The famous flower of serving-men, or, The lady turned serving man
Alternative Title: Famous flower of serving men
Lady turned serving man
Creator: L. P. (Laurence Price), active 1625-1680?, author
Published / Created: [between 1783 and 1796?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Sold at No. 42 Long Lane
Description: Verse begins: "You beauteous ladies great and small,"
Anonymous. By Laurence Price. See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Another edition (ESTC R176942) is signed "L.P.".
In four columns with the title and two framed square woodcuts above the first two; the first woodcut is of a figure in profile, the second of a figure looking front; the columns are not separated by rules.
Imprint below last column, in square brackets.
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.
Mounted on leaf 42. 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: Poetry
Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Subject (Topic): Household employees
Cross-dressing
Cross dressing
Subjects: Household employees > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Cross-dressing > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Cross dressing

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