A country lady's journal, inthe days of Q. Elizabeth, contrasted with one of a modern fine lady of the present year

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Title: A country lady's journal, inthe days of Q. Elizabeth, contrasted with one of a modern fine lady of the present year
Published / Created: [not before 1742?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: s.n.
Description: Date of publication from internal evidence: a reference to the modern lady reading "Hoyle", presumably one of Edmond Hoyle’s books on whist or another game, the first of which was published in 1742.
Text in two sections: "Lady in Q. Elizabeth's time" and "Modern fine lady". First line begins: "Five o'clock.--Get up an hour sooner than usual".
Possibly a fragment or detached from larger work.
In two columns with title centered above both; columns are not separated by rules.
Mounted on leaf 14. 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.) ; 30 x 19 cm
Language: English

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