The Windsor lady

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Title: The Windsor lady
Published / Created: [1775?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold at No. 42 Long-Lane
Description: Date of publication from ESTC.
Verse begins: "In Windsor famous town did dwell,".
In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.
Another edition with identical verse layout and woodcuts but with extended title is from Bow Church-yard.
Mounted on leaf 68. 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.) : 21 x 34 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Poetry
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 18th century
Material: 2 woodcuts ;
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Windsor (England)
Subject (Topic): Broadsides
Ballads, English
Single women
Courtship
Soldiers
Suicide
Daggers & swords
Fighting
Wounds & injuries
Crutches
Subjects: Broadsides > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
Ballads, English > 18th century
Single women > Early works to 1800
Courtship > Early works to 1800
Soldiers > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Suicide > Early works to 1800
Daggers & swords
Fighting
Wounds & injuries
Crutches
Windsor (England) > Poetry > Early works to 1800
England > London > 18th century

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