King John and the abbot of Canterbury

Description

Title: King John and the abbot of Canterbury
Published / Created: [between 1754 and 1783]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London
Description: Verse begins: "I will tell you a story, a story anon,".
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.
In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the imprint is at the foot of the last column, below a row of type ornaments; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments.
Mounted on leaf 67. 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.) : 21 x 34 cm
Language: English

Genre: Songs
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1760
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Subject (Topic): Kings
Crowns
Scepters
Monks
Beads
Subjects: Kings
Crowns
Scepters
Monks
Beads
England > London > 1760

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