The story of sinful Sally, told by herself : Shewing how from being Sally of the Green she was first led to become Sinful Sally, and afterwards Drunken Sal, and how at last she came to a most melancholy and almost hopeless end; being therein a warning to all young women both in town and country

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Title: The story of sinful Sally, told by herself : Shewing how from being Sally of the Green she was first led to become Sinful Sally, and afterwards Drunken Sal, and how at last she came to a most melancholy and almost hopeless end; being therein a warning to all young women both in town and country
Creator: Sinful Sally
Contributor: Evans, John, active 1794-1799, bookseller.
Published / Created: [1796?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield, London
Description: Verse begins: "Come each maiden lend an ear,".
In four columns; the title and imprint are above the first two (imprint is in square brackets); the portrait is below the imprint, above the first column only; the columns are not separated by rules.
This title was entered in the Stationers' Register by John Marshall for the Cheap Repository on 1 February 1796, and may be a piracy by Evans, who had lost a lawsuit to Marshall in December 1795; Evans used this imprint until Easter 1796. See David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118.
Mounted on leaf 44. 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) : 24 x 33 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 74 OL1 v. 2

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1794
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Topic): Moralities, English
Women
Moral and ethical aspects
Subjects: Moralities, English > Early works to 1800
Women > Moral and ethical aspects > Early works to 1800
England > London > 1794

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Orbis Record: 10459020
Object ID (OID): 17124931