The tavern kitchen fray, or, A dialogue between Nell and her mistress

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Title: The tavern kitchen fray, or, A dialogue between Nell and her mistress
Alternative Title: Dialogue between Nell and her mistress
Published / Created: [between 1754 and 1783?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Printed and sold at the Printing-Office, in Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, London
Description: Verse begins: "In a tavern kitchen, the cook's territories,".
In three columns with the title above the first two and the woodcut above the first; the imprint at foot of the third, below a row of type ornaments; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments.
There is no punctuation at the end of the title.
Dated from the address; 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 52. 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) : 23 x 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1760
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Topic): Broadsides
Ballads, English
Taverns (Inns)
Household employees
Women
Social conditions
Man-woman relationships
Subjects: Broadsides > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
Ballads, English > 18th century
Taverns (Inns) > Early works to 1800
Household employees > Early works to 1800
Women > Social conditions > Early works to 1800
Man-woman relationships > Early works to 1800
England > London > 1760

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