Title from item., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls., Three columns of verse below title: Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle, / He was all for love and a little for the bottle ..., Plate numbered '214' in lower left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: chairs -- Maps: wall-map of England -- Naval uniforms: officer's uniform., and Watermark: 1811.
Publisher:
Published 4th April 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A group of sportsmen stand amongst the gravestones in a churchyard cemetary aiming their guns at a flock of birds. Their hunting dogs run toward the birds. In a grave behind a tombstone (left), a gravedigger cowers in fear, a skull and pick axe beside him. In the distance the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral (?).
Alternative Title:
First of September
Description:
Caption title printed in letterpresss below etching., Imprint engraved below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 45 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 1st 1792 by J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Cemeteries, Game bird hunting, Gravedigging, Hunting dogs, Poultry, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
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
Title from text above image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Imperfect impression; partial loss of imprint., Two columns of quotations from the bible and other sources arranged around central image: She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. -I. Tim. 6 ..., Two columns of verse printed in letterpress below image: Death. Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside, no longer may you take glory in your pride ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Bible -- Literature -- I. Tim. 6., quotation -- Genesis III, quotation -- Bible, Eccl., quotation -- Bible, Job XXX, quotation -- Deut. 32., quotation -- Vices -- Ballads: 'Death and the Lady'., and Mounted to 37 x 23 cm.
Title from letterpress text below image., Questionable attribution to R. Newton from unverified data in local card catalog record., Imprint etched on plate, within image: [...?] W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St., Novbr. 20th, 1798., Publisher's advertisement below letterpress imprint: Of whom may be had Jacky Lloyd and Anna Davis., Seventeen stanzas of verse in letterpress below image: A doctor so prim, and a sempstress so tight, hob-a-nobb'd in some right marosquin ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Physicians -- Wedding feasts -- Lighting: Candles -- Dining rooms -- Tankards -- Literature: 'Alonzo the brave and the fair Imogine,' by Matthew Gregory Lewis -- Furniture: China -- Pictures -- Medicine: Bottles -- Animals: Cats., and Watermark: E & P 1794.
Publisher:
Published by William Holland, No. 50, Oxford-Street
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
Caption title., Title printed on either side of woodcut at top center. Text beneath woodcut: Tune - "Dash along.", In verse., Text in two columns. First line: Come all good people far and near, & listen unto me ..., A popular song on the Alehouse Act of 1828 and the Beerhouse Act of 1830., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by T. Birt, 10 Great St. Andrew-Street, Seven Dials
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