The perjur'd shepherd : Tune of, the Hay-Makers

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Title: The perjur'd shepherd : Tune of, the Hay-Makers
Alternative Title: Perjured shepherd
Published / Created: [between 1736 and 1763?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Printed at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard
Description: Verse begins: "Attend you nymphs and virgins,".
In three columns; the title and illustration above the first column; the imprint at foot of the third column, below a series of long dashes; the columns are not separated by rules.
Dating based on the imprint; 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 14. 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.) : 17 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Songs
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 18th century
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Topic): Songs, English
Shepherds
Shepherdesses
Sheep
Subjects: Songs, English > 18th century
Shepherds
Shepherdesses
Sheep
England > London > 18th century

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