Fun in an alley, or, The footman trapp'd.

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Title: Fun in an alley, or, The footman trapp'd.
Alternative Title: Footman trapp'd
Published / Created: [between 1736 and 1763]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold in Bow-Church-Yard, London
Description: Verse begins: "Come all you young gallants that's passing along,"
In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments.
The range of dates and printers’ names are from the Bodleian Library Ballads database; see also David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157.
Imprint below fourth column.
Mounted on leaf 49. 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 34 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Ballads
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 18th century
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Subject (Topic): Prostitution
Paternity
Domestics
Love
Gifts
Foundlings
Baskets
Subjects: Prostitution > Early works to 1800
Paternity > Early works to 1800
Domestics > Early works to 1800
Love > Early works to 1800
Gifts > Early works to 1800
Foundlings > Early works to 1800
Baskets
England > London > 18th century

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