Broadside ballad by Charles Dibdin, with an etched headpiece showing the interior of a tavern with a one-legged pensioner holding a beer tankard decorated with an anchor (center), singing the song, while a maid holds a mug to another who has lost both arms (left). On the right two men play a game (draughts?) at a table. On the wall behind them is another broadside 'Poor Jack', also about a sailor with words by Dibdin. On the windows at the entrance of the tavern are postings advertising rum and gin. Several are dressed in the uniform of Greenwich pensioners
Description:
Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses: " ... written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The oddities.", Lettered with the artist's initials in the one-legged pensioner's hat and with his full name on the edge of the table on the right., Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, by Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, where may be had, price 6d. plain and 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Bachelors' Hall, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Barber's Wedding, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibding and others. In Fores's exhibition may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides of illustration., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English --England --Texts., Beauty culture --England --London --Poetry --Early works to 1800, Hairdressing --England --London --Poetry --Early works to 1800., and Women --England --London --Humor --Poetry --Early works to 1800.
BEIN: Imperfect: upper margins bled, with loss of page numbers; front. bound at end., A satire on the negotiations for adjusting the differences with Spain, between Sir Robert Walpole and Horatio Walpole, and Sir Thomas Fitzgerald., Price on title page: (Price Sixpence.), Mounted on leaf 54. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Thompson
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Baron, 1678-1757. and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745.
Bonny baker chous’d in his bargain and Somersetshire damsel beguiled
Description:
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) S4653
Publisher:
Printed for J. Blare, at the sign of the looking-glass on London Bridge
Subject (Topic):
Bakers and bakeries --England --Poetry --Early works to 1800., Ballads, English --England --Texts., Cuckolds --England --Poetry --Early works to 1800, and Illegitimate children --England --Poetry --Early works to 1800.
Caption title from ballad: The Barber's wedding. The text of the ballad is printed in letterpress below the plate (plate mark 17.7 x 24.9 cm.)., Publisher's announcement at the bottom of sheet after imprint: ... where may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: barbers -- Barber shops -- Trades: fishwives -- Fish baskets -- Public houses -- Drunkenness -- Pictures amplifying subject: playbill for Romeo and Juliet., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Caption title., Date based on publisher J. Jennings's activity dates. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 107., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: When absent from her ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Jennings, No. 13, Water-lane, Fleet-street, London
Caption title., Verse begins: "Of all the callings and the trades"., Signed: Z, i.e. Hannah More., In two columns with the title and woodcut above both; title, text and imprint within a border of typographical ornaments., At head: Cheap repository., Above imprint in italics, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall., Price below imprint: [Within the border:] Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. [Below the border:] Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.-9d. for 25., T his form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney)., Mounted on leaf 55. 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 55: Copy trimmed within border resulting in loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Marshall, and R. White, London. By S. Hazard, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country
Caption title., Date from entry for Carrall in British Book Trade index., In verse., First line: Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside ..., Woodcut image: a scene in a room with two windows and a table with a lighted candle. On the right Death wearing a crown and holding an arrow and hourglass stands next to a lady who is holding her child's hand. Beside the child stands a gentleman (doctor). On the ground at Death's feet are a shovel and emblems of power(?)., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Carrall, printer, Walmgate, York
Subject (Topic):
Death, Death (Personification), Children, Hourglasses, Mothers, and Physicians