Love in a barn, or, Right country courtship

Description

Title: Love in a barn, or, Right country courtship
Alternative Title: Right country courtship
Published / Created: [between 1775 and 1783]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
Description: Verse begins: "Come all ye brisk country girls,".
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 spanning the first two, and the illustration above the first; imprint at foot of the last column, below a single rule; the columns are not separated by rules.
Mounted on leaf 76. 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 30 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Songs
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England 1775
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Subject (Topic): Courtship
Milking
Cows
Subjects: Courtship > Early works to 1800
Milking
Cows
England > 1775

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