Below imprint: (Price two shillings.)., Signatures: [A]⁴ B-M⁴ N² [$2 signed]., Not in ESTC., Possibly by John, Lord Hervey (1696-1743). Cf. Maioli, R. Eighteenth-Century studies, volume 54, number 2, winter 2021. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press., LWL 49 1608 33:5: Horace Walpole's marks., LWL 49 1608 33:5: Omitted from Horace Walpole's list of contents of this volume., and Mottled calf, with Horace Walpole's manuscript list of contents.
At the Old Theatre by the Portsmouth and Plymouth Company
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., Date from manuscript notation., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 11.
Caption title., A version of this song appeared in The Gentleman's bottle companion (1768)., In verse., First line: Not far from town a country squire ..., Not in ESTC., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title etched at top of plate above image., A satire against Walpole. See Foxon., Verse: "Who be de noble lady dere ..."., Letterpress broadside poem printed, illustrated with hand-colored etching at top of sheet (plate mark 21.3 x 32.2 cm.)., Lewis Walpole Library 741.04.07.01+: Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: White Hall -- Buildings: Treasury -- Personifications: Justice -- Britannia (Symbolic character)., and Unidentified watermark.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, April the 7th 1741, and sold by J. Tinney, at the Golden Lion, in Fleet-Street, and at the print and pamphlet-shops
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Dated in lower left corner of plate: March [the] 2 1740., 'Price six pence.', Letterpress broadside poem printed, illustrated with etching (plate mark 20.8 x 32.8 cm) at top of sheet, Verse - "Who be dat de box do sit on?"., An engraved cartoon, with verses, in answer to the print "The motion.", Against Walpole., Watermark: watermark and countermark., Tentatively attributed on verso to George Bickham by the curator., and 1 print on laid paper : etching ; plate mark 20.8 x 32.7 cm., on sheet 32 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster-Row, 1741. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., Argyle, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743., Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743., and Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750.
Interleaved throughout., Occasioned by the founding of the Magdalen Hospital, London., Dedication signed: Harris.--cf. Harris's list of Covent Garden ladies., and Imperfect: Leaf A1 torn in lower fore-edge with loss of some text.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Fleming, opposite Norfolk-Street, Strand
Riot, Half a loaf is better than no bread, and Come neighbours, no longer be patient and quiet
Description:
Caption title below woodcut., Signed: Z. [i.e. Hannah More]., The sheet is headed: "Cheap repository"., First line reads: Come neighbours, no longer be patient and quiet., In two columns with a woodcut above the title., At foot of second column, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall., Beneath imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers., "Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100. - 1s 3d. for 50. - 9d. for 25.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) 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
Nothing got by cheating and Miller there was, and he liv'd at his Mill
Description:
Caption title., Signed at end of text: Z [i.e. Hannah More]., A Cheap repository broadsheet., Date from Spinney., Beneath border at foot, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall., Verse begins: A Miller there was, and he liv'd at his Mill ..., Price below imprint: "Price an Half-penny, or 2s, 3d, per 100, 1s, 3d, for 50, 9d. for 25.", Unlike most copies of the Cheap repository tracts published by Hazard and Marshall, this one does not have the phrase: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by S. Hazard (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts) at Bath; by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repositories, No. 18, Queen-Street, Cheap-Side and No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard, by R. White, Piccadilly, London; and by all booksellers, newsmen and hawkers, in town and country
Caption title., Date based on inclusion of 'Wottington', perhaps a variant spelling of Samuel Worthington, Mayor of Nottingham in 1800/1., An apparently satirical Nottinghamshire slip song, perhaps produced during an enclosure dispute (‘Have BURGESS's the Time forgot, When Worshipper's of Mammon; Combined to seize that happy Spot, We hold as RIGHT of Common?'), which groups the names of several local worthies (such as Mayors Hawksley and Hunt) 'as An Auctioneer's old Books, Waste Paper, Rotten Leather'., In verse., First line: The mighty contest now is done, And Nottingham in slav'ry ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
