The midnight messenger, or, A sudden call from an earthly glory to the cold grave : in a dialogue between death and a rich man, who, in the midst of all his wealth, received the tidings of his last day, to his unspeakable and sorrowful lamentations. Tune- aim not too high &c.

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Lewis Walpole Library > The midnight messenger, or, A sudden call from an earthly glory to the cold grave : in a dialogue between death and a rich man, who, in the midst of all his wealth, received the tidings of his last day, to his unspeakable and sorrowful lamentations. Tune- aim not too high &c.

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Title: The midnight messenger, or, A sudden call from an earthly glory to the cold grave : in a dialogue between death and a rich man, who, in the midst of all his wealth, received the tidings of his last day, to his unspeakable and sorrowful lamentations. Tune- aim not too high &c.
Alternative Title: Sudden call from an earthly glory to the cold grave
Contributor: Evans, John, (active 1794-1799), printer, bookseller.
Published / Created: [1775?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sol by J. Evans, 41 Long-Lane
Description: Verse begins: "Thou wealthy man of large possessions here,".
Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118.
Printed in four columns with two woodcuts and the title above the first two; imprint at foot of the fourth column, below a single rule; the columns are not separated by rules.
Mounted on leaf 6. 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.) : 22 x 33 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 74 OL1 v. 2

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Early works to 1800
Portrait prints
Songs
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Subject (Topic): Death
Religious aspects
Christianity
Songs, English
Ballads, English
Dialogues, English
Skeletons
Hourglasses
Arrows
Subjects: Death > Religious aspects > Christianity
Death > Early works to 1800
Songs, English > 18th century
Ballads, English > 18th century
Dialogues, English > Early works to 1800
Death
Skeletons
Hourglasses
Arrows

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 10446623
Object ID (OID): 17124893