The politick squire, or, The highwaymen catch'd in their own play

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Title: The politick squire, or, The highwaymen catch'd in their own play
Alternative Title: Highwaymen catch'd in their own play
Published / Created: [between 1757 and 1784?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet Market
Description: Verse begins: "Come gentlemen, and hear this ditty,".
Printed in four columns with the woodcut and title above the first two; the imprint below the last two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments.
Dated from the address; see David Atkinson, "Street literature printing in Stonecutter Street (1740s-1780s)", Publishing history 78 (2018), 1-45.
Mounted on leaf 19. 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] page) : 20 x 32 cm
Language: English

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