Roman charity

Description

Title: Roman charity
Published / Created: [1750?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: s.n.
Description: Date of publication from ESTC.
Verse begins: "In Rome I read a nobleman".
In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules.
Title ends in semicolon.
Mounted on leaf 39. 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.) : 25 x 36 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1750
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Subject (Topic): Broadsides
Ballads, English
Fathers and daughters
Soldiers
Spears
Breasts
Subjects: Broadsides > Early works to 1800
Ballads, English > 18th century
Fathers and daughters > Early works to 1800
Soldiers
Spears
Breasts
England > London > 1750

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