The pretty green-coat boy's garland

Description

Title: The pretty green-coat boy's garland
Published / Created: [between 1783 and 1796?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Sold at No. 42, Long Lane
Description: Title ends without a mark of punctuation.
Verse begins: "You pretty young maidens and batchelors swe".
In four columns with the title above the first two; imprint at foot of the fourth below a single rule; the columns are not separated by rules
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 67. 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) ; 22 x 31 cm
Language: English

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

Access: Public
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