The wanton virgins frightened, with the spy's downfal from the tree-top to the pond-bottom, or, The old man strangely surprized and bugbear'd by the black bandileers and buff-coats

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17124949

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Title: The wanton virgins frightened, with the spy's downfal from the tree-top to the pond-bottom, or, The old man strangely surprized and bugbear'd by the black bandileers and buff-coats
Alternative Title: Wanton virgins frighted
Old man strangely surprized and bugbear'd by the black bandileers and buff-coats
Published / Created: [between 1754 and 1783?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-Land [sic], London
Description: Verse - "You that delight in a jocular song,".
In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental 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 62. 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) : 20 x 34 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 74 OL1 v. 2

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Early works to 1800
Poetry
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1760
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Topic): Single women
Swimming
Nudes
Women
Lakes & ponds
Voyeurism
Trees
Subjects: Single women > Early works to 1800
Swimming > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Nudes
Women
Lakes & ponds
Swimming
Voyeurism
Trees
England > London > 1760

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 10465651
Object ID (OID): 17124949