Caption title., Verse begins: "In a cottage embosom'd within a deep shade,", In one column with title and engraved plate above; no rules or decorations present., Imprint below column. Printer statement following imprint: M'Creery, printer., Artist's signature in plate: Matthew Haughton del. et sculp., Mounted on leaf 13. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Published by E. Rushton, Liverpool, August, 1799, and sold by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly, London
Caption title., Anonymous. By Hannah More., This form of imprint was used between May 1795 and January 1796 (Spinney)., Verse begins: Near Lechlade town, in Glostershire ..., This edition has all except the price within a border consisting of intertwined ropes, one of leaf-like ornaments, the other of open ornamental dots; the words "Cheap Repository" interrupt the border in the center at the top; the two columns of text are separated by a vertical double rule., Below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price below the border: Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.---1s. 3d. for 50.---9d. for 25., Above imprint and below text, in italics: Entered at Stationers Hall., Entered in the Stationers' Register to Hannah More, 31 August 1795., The woodcut shows a family sitting by a fire at night in a room with a candle., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3 (no. 35)., Mounted on leaf 26. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, at no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country
In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the imprint at foot of the third; the columns are separated by thick solid rules., Verse begins: "Fair lady lay your costly robes aside,", The verse earlier went under the title of 'The great messenger of mortality'., 'Death' precedes the first line., Imprint below third column., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118., Mounted on leaf 27. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41 Long-Lane, London
Subject (Topic):
Death, Grim Reaper (Symbolic character), Death (Personification), Hourglasses, and Spears
In three columns with largest woodcut and title above all three; columns are separated by rules., Verse begins: "God rest you merry gentlemen,", 'Carol I' precedes first line., Contains four carols: 'God rest you merry gentlemen'; 'The moon shines bright'; 'The first good joy our Mary had'; 'When Joseph was an old man'., Roman Catholic ornaments surround text: Virgin Mary mother of our blessed saviour, Mary Magdalen who washed our saviours feet, Susanna, Elizabeth mother of John the Baptist, Mary mother of James, Queen Esther., Mounted on leaf 28. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Davenport, 6 George's Court, St. John's-lane, West Smithfield
Text begins: "Young and old, rich and poor, male and female, to prepare for their latter end ..., Last line: Necessary for all Christian families who have the least regard for their future salvation to have in their houses., Three woodcuts depict personifications of death and the crucifixion of Jesus., Mounted on leaf 30. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Topic):
Death, Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)., Death (Personification)., Crucifixions, Skeletons, Spears, Hourglasses, and Scythes
In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Verse begins: "True churchmen all, I pray behold & see,", Imprint below third and fourth columns., Date conjectured by cataloger based on other conjectured dates in ESTC., The title alludes to the prose compilation of trials and dying speeches first published under the same title in 1660., Mounted on leaf 31. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet-Market
Verse - "Awake! awake! O England,"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the first and second as well as the third and fourth columns are separated by ornamental rules., Date of publication suggested by cataloger., Mounted on leaf 32. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Topic):
Judgment of God, Solar eclipses, Death's head, and Skull & crossbones
Sweet William's dream on his wedding night with the sudden death and burial of those noble lovers
Description:
Verse - "As it fell out upon a day,"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Imprint below last column., 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 38. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-Lane, Loudon [sic]
Verse begins: "In stately Rome sometime did dwell"., In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Note within title: Note as the use of these old songs is very great in respect that many children never would have learn'd to read had they not took a delight in poring over fair Rosamond, Robin Hood ..., Mounted on leaf 40. Copy trimmed., Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1., and Volume 1, leaf 40: copy lacking imprint statement.
Verse begins: "Come all you young gallants that's passing along,", In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., The range of dates and printers’ names are from the Bodleian Library Ballads database; see also David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Imprint below fourth column., Mounted on leaf 49. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Bow-Church-Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Paternity, Domestics, Love, Gifts, Foundlings, and Baskets
