Patient Grissel : an excellent ballad

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Title: Patient Grissel : an excellent ballad
Creator: Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600
Published / Created: [1750?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: s.n.
Description: In title comma follows the word 'ballad'.
Date of publication and author from ESTC. Attributed to Thomas Deloney.
Verse begins: "A noble Marquis, as he was hunting,".
In three columns with the title and woodcut above the first; the columns are separated by rules.
Based on book 10, novel 10 of the 'Decamerone' by Giovanni Boccaccio.
Mounted on leaf 12. 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 28 cm.
Language: English

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