The northern ditty, or, The Scotchman outwitted by a country damsel

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Title: The northern ditty, or, The Scotchman outwitted by a country damsel
Alternative Title: Scotchman outwitted by a country damsel
Creator: D’Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723
Published / Created: [between 1775 and 1783?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Printed and sold at no. 4, Aldermary Church Yard
Description: Verse -- "Cold and raw the North did blow,".
Anonymous. By Thomas D’Urfey.
In four columns with the title above the first two and a woodcut above the first; the columns are not separated by rules. - A variant has "no. 41, Aldermary Church Yard".
The body of the text is set entirely in italic type.
No full stop at end of title and first line of verse ends with a comma.
Dated from the address in the other printing (or issue); see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157.
Another printing (or issue), clearly from the same setting of type, has imprint "Printed and sold at no. 4, Aldermary Church Yard" (ESTC T206462).
Mounted on leaf 10. 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.) : 19 x 31 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Broadside poems
Single sheet verse
Woodcuts
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Subject (Topic): Man-woman relationships
Songs, English
Subjects: Man-woman relationships > Early works to 1800
Songs, English > 18th century

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