The rakish husband's garland

Description

Title: The rakish husband's garland
Contributor: Evans, John, 1753-1820, printer, bookseller.
Published / Created: [between 1793 and 1796?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield
Description: Verse -- "You gallant beaus of pleasure,". -
In five columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first three; the imprint spans the bottom of the last two, below a series of long dashes; the columns are separated by columns of ornamental rules and type ornaments.
Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118.
Mounted on leaf 27. 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) : 22 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1795
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Topic): Ballads, English
Husband and wife
Money
Prostitution
Wealth
Swine
Dogs
Chickens
Roosters
Birds
Subjects: Ballads, English > 18th century
Husband and wife > Early works to 1800
Money > Early works to 1800
Prostitution > Early works to 1800
Wealth > Early works to 1800
Swine
Dogs
Chickens
Roosters
Birds
England > London > 1795

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