The horse race, or, The pleasures of the course

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Title: The horse race, or, The pleasures of the course
Alternative Title: Pleasures of the course
Contributor: Hazard, Samuel, -1806.
Marshall, John, printer.
White, R., bookseller.
Published / Created: [Mar. 3, 1795 - May 1795]
Publication Place: Bath
Publisher: Sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) at Bath : By J. Marshall, at the Cheap Repositories, No. 17, Queen-street, Cheap-side, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-yard : R. White, Piccadilly, London; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country. Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers
Description: "Price an half-penny, or 2s. 3d. per 100, 1s. 3d. for 50, 9d. for 25."
Text and cut within printer's flowers frame.
In this edition line 35 of col. 2 includes: "health and money lost!", and the footnote has the spelling: "Lansdown".
The woodcut shows two riders with a leafy branch overhead; this has a bare twig protruding.
LWL copy imperfect: bottom portion of sheet including price and imprint wanting. Sheet trimmed within border.
Mounted on leaf 57. 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.) : 43 x 26 cm.
Language: English

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