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: [ca. 1760?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold in Stonecutter Street, Fleet-Market
Description: Date of publication supplied by cataloger.
Verse begins: "Come all you young gallants that's passing along,"
Imprint below fourth column.
In this edition, the imprint reading is "Stonecutter Street, Fleet-Market"; the heading "John’s Confession" (middle of last column) is in roman type; and the first three words of the first line are "Come all you". In another edition (ESTC N1343), the reading is "Stonecutter-street, Fleet Market"; "John’s Confession" is in italics; and the first three words are "Come all ye".
In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by lines of ornamental type.
Mounted on leaf 50. 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.) : 18 x 32 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Ballads
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1760
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Subject (Topic): Prostitution
Paternity
Household employees
Love
Gifts
Foundlings
Subjects: Prostitution > Early works to 1800
Paternity > Early works to 1800
Household employees > Early works to 1800
Love > Early works to 1800
Gifts > Early works to 1800
Foundlings > Early works to 1800
England > London > 1760

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