Signed Z., i.e. Hannah More. Verse begins: "Two gardeners once beneath an oak,". In two columns separated by a double rule; woodcut and title span the columns. At foot of the second column, below a double rule, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall. A pamphlet edition of this work, using the same woodcut, was published as part of the Cheap Repository; not in G.H. Spinney, ’Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.’ In Library, 4th series, volume 20:3 (December 1939), 97; Spinney records that the title was entered in the Stationers’ Register on 4 April 1797. Copy trimmed, perhaps removing an imprint and reference to the Cheap Repository? Mounted on leaf 56. 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.
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