The politick lovers, or, The Windsor miser outwitted

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Title: The politick lovers, or, The Windsor miser outwitted
Alternative Title: Windsor miser outwitted
Published / Created: [between 1757 and 1784?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Printed and sold at Sympson's Warehouse, in Stonecutter Street, Fleet-Market
Description: Verse in three parts begins: "Of all the merry folicks".
In five columns; the title spans the first two columns; the imprint spans the foot of the third through fifth columns; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments.
Dated from the address; see David Atkinson, "Street literature printing in Stonecutter Street (1740s-1780s)", Publishing history 78 (2018), 1-45.
Mounted on leaf 66. 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] page) ; 21 x 34 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Resource Type: text
Subject (Topic): Courtship
Deception
Man-woman relationships
Subjects: Courtship > Early works to 1800
Deception > Early works to 1800
Man-woman relationships > Early works to 1800

Access: Public
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