The Gosport tragedy, or, The perjured ship-carpenter

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Title: The Gosport tragedy, or, The perjured ship-carpenter
Alternative Title: Perjur'd ship-carpenter
Perjured ship-carpenter
Published / Created: [between 1775 and 1783?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church [y]ard
Description: Verse begins: "In Gosport of late there a damsel did dwell,".
In four columns, with title and illustration above the first two; imprint at the foot of the fourth column, below a single rule; the columns are not divided by rules.
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 54. 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: Poetry
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 18th century
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Subject (Topic): Murder
Rowboats
Rowing
Subjects: Murder > Poetry
Rowboats
Rowing
England > London > 18th century

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