The merry cuckold and kind wife

Description

Title: The merry cuckold and kind wife
Published / Created: [1795?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Printed by Wise and Co. no. 89, Rosemary-Lane
Description: Verse - "Oh! I went into the stable, and there for to see ..."
Caption title.
Another printing or issue (ESTC T206415) is from the same setting of type, but has imprint "Printed by Wise and Co. no. 89, Rosemary-Lane"; the spacing between stanzas in the third column is smaller in that one. In this one, the first line of the second column aligns with the line beginning "And there I saw" in the third column. Both have the same type ornaments between the columns, and the same typographical errors: "dc" (for "do") in line 9 of the second column, and "llke" (for "like") in line 3 up in the third column.
Date based on the date assigned to ESTC T206415.
In three columns with the title and woodcut (divided into two compartments) above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules.
Lewis Walpole Library copy: Sheet trimmed; imprint statement wanting.
Mounted on leaf 5. Copy trimmed.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
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
Woodcuts England London 1795
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Subject (Topic): Domestic relations
Husband and wife
Adultery
Subjects: Domestic relations > Early works to 1800
Husband and wife > Early works to 1800
Adultery > Early works to 1800
England > London > 1795

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