A choice pennyworth of wit

Description

Title: A choice pennyworth of wit
Published / Created: [between 1736 and 1763?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold in Bow-Church Yard, London
Description: Verse in three parts begins: "Here is a pennyworth of wit,".
In five columns with the title above the first two and imprint below the last two; the columns are not separated by rules.
Full stop at end of title.
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.
Mounted on leaf 12. Copy trimmed.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
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 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Subject (Topic): Prostitution
Husband and wife
Adultery
Merchants
Wealth
Subjects: Prostitution > Early works to 1800
Husband and wife > Early works to 1800
Adultery > Early works to 1800
Merchants > Early works to 1800
Wealth > Early works to 1800

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