The Leeds tragedy: or, The bloody brother

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Title: The Leeds tragedy: or, The bloody brother
Alternative Title: Bloody brother
Published / Created: [1795?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold at no. 42, Long Lane
Description: Verse - "Good Christian people all I pray,". - In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.
Date of publication from ESTC.
Mounted on leaf 69. 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 31 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1795
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Topic): Incest
Murder
Defloration
Domestic relations
Brothers and sisters
Gallows
Subjects: Incest > Early works to 1800
Murder > Early works to 1800
Defloration > Early works to 1800
Domestic relations > Early works to 1800
Brothers and sisters > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
Gallows
England > London > 1795

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