The wandering shepherdess

Description

Title: The wandering shepherdess
Published / Created: [between 1736 and 1783?]
Publication Place: London? and England London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Verse - "You that do know what to true love belong.". -
There is no full stop at the end of the title.
Title and three woodcuts are above the first two columns; the first woodcut depicts a shepherd with his crook, the second a hanged man, and the third a shepherdess also with crook; the columns of text are separated by columns of type ornaments; and there are two layers of clouds in the first woodcut.
The woodcuts are also found in editions with Bow Church Yard and Aldermary Church Yard imprints; the date is based on that; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157.
In this printing, the left edge of the first woodcut aligns with the "i" in "wandering" in the title. In another printing (ESTC N511170), it aligns with the space between "n" and "g".
Mounted on leaf 61. 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 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1750
Material: 3 woodcuts ;
Subject (Topic): Shepherds
Shepherdesses
Hangings (Executions)
Gallows
Dead persons
Subjects: Shepherds
Shepherdesses
Hangings (Executions)
Gallows
Dead persons
England > London > 1750

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