The tempele [sic] wedding, or, Love at first sight

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Title: The tempele [sic] wedding, or, Love at first sight
Alternative Title: Temple wedding
Tempele wedding
Love at first sight
Published / Created: [between 1775 and 1783?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard
Description: Verse begins: "In London fair city a young man and a maid,".
In three columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; imprint at the foot of the third column, below a single rule; the columns are not separated by rules.
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 53. 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) : 21 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Poetry
Early works to 1800
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1775
Material: 3 woodcuts ;
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Ballads, English
Courtship
Marriage
Household employees
Merchants
Husband and wife
Man-woman relationships
Subjects: Ballads, English > 18th century
Courtship > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Marriage > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Household employees > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Merchants > England > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Husband and wife > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Man-woman relationships > Poetry > Early works to 1800
England > London > 1775

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