Tit for tat; or the merry wives of Wapping

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Title: Tit for tat; or the merry wives of Wapping
Alternative Title: Merry wives of Wapping
Published / Created: [1765?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold at the printing office in Stonecutter-street, Fleet Market
Description: Caption title above first two columns.
Date of publication from ESTC.
Verse - "All you that delight in a frolicksome song."
In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the third and fourth columns each contain a woodcut; the columns are not separated by rules.
Mounted on leaf 54. 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.) : 22 x 35 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Sexual behavior
Songs
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1765
Material: 4 woodcuts ;
Subject (Name): Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743.
Subject (Topic): Sailors
Adultery
Cuckolds
Ballads, English
Husband and wife
Women
Subjects: Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743
Sailors > Early works to 1800
Adultery > Early works to 1800
Cuckolds > Early works to 1800
Ballads, English > 18th century
Husband and wife > Early works to 1800
Women > Sexual behavior > Early works to 1800
England > London > 1765

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