The honest miller of Glocestershire : a true ballad

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Title
The honest miller of Glocestershire : a true ballad
Alternative Title
Cheap Repository
Creator
More, Hannah, 1745-1833, author
Contributor
Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.
White, Richard, active 1795-1796, bookseller.
Hazard, Samuel, -1806, bookseller.
Published / Created
[1795 or 1796]
Publication Place
London and England London
Publisher
Sold by J. Marshall, and R. White, London. By S. Hazard, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country
Description
Caption title.
Verse begins: "Of all the callings and the trades".
Signed: Z, i.e. Hannah More.
In two columns with the title and woodcut above both; title, text and imprint within a border of typographical ornaments.
At head: Cheap repository.
Above imprint in italics, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall.
Price below imprint: [Within the border:] Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. [Below the border:] Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.-9d. for 25.
T his form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney).
Mounted on leaf 55. Copy trimmed.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Volume 1, leaf 55: Copy trimmed within border resulting in loss of imprint.
Provenance
One of three volumes of ballads purchased from P. Murray Hill by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
Extent
1 sheet ([1] p.) : 34 x 21 cm.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Ballads
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts
Material
1 woodcut ;
Subject (Topic)
Millers
Water mills
Bags
Subjects
Millers
Water mills
Bags

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
10431749
Object ID (OID)
17124738

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