The jovial batchelor
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Description
- Title
- The jovial batchelor
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1775?]
- Publication Place
- London and England London
- Publisher
- Sold at Sympson's printing-office, in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet-Market
- Description
-
Verse begins: "My friend I would have you take my advice,".
In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by lines of ornamental type. Toward the foot of column two begins "The maiden's answer.".
Date conjectured by cataloguer based on other editions of this work.
Imprint below last column, separate by a single rule.
In this edition, the illustration above the second column is of a man and a woman seated, bodies touching, with no tree. In another edition with an almost identical imprint (ESTC N70831), the illustration depicts a man and a woman standing, slightly apart, with a tree next to the man.
Mounted on leaf 62. 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.) : 22 x 27 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Poetry
Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts - Material
- 2 woodcuts ;
- Subject (Geographic)
- England
- Subject (Topic)
-
Man-woman relationships
Marriage
Bachelors
Single women
Men
Social life and customs
Eating & drinking
Driniking vessels
Tobacco pipes
Women - Subjects
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Man-woman relationships > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Marriage > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Bachelors > England > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Single women > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Men > Social life and customs > 18th century > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Eating & drinking
Driniking vessels
Tobacco pipes
Women
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 10432978
- Object ID (OID)
- 17124745