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Genre
Single sheet verse
Subject (Topic)
Murder
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Published / Created:
[between 1680 and 1710?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Description:
In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; imprint below the last three; the columns are not separated by rules.
Publisher:
Printed by and for C.B. [Brown?] and sold by J. Walter, at the Hand and Pen in High Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and vertuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children, wickedly performed by a heathenish and blood-thirsty blackamore, their servant, the like of which cruelty and murther was never before heard of. To the tune of The lady's fall, &c. Enter’d according to order
Published / Created:
[between 1793 and 1796]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Tragical ballad, of the unfortunate love of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor
Description:
Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Man-woman relationships, Murder, Suicide, Courtship, Betrayal, Hunting, Hunting dogs, Horns (Communication devices)., and Wolves
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A tragical ballad of the unfortunate loves of Lord Thomas and fair Eleanor, together with the downfall of the brown girl
Published / Created:
[between 1775 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
"All ye youths of fair England,". - In six columns with the title above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules. - The same setting of type was issued both without an imprint and with a shorter imprint excluding "no. 4".
Publisher:
Printed and sold at no. 4, Aldermary Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Barnwell, George
Subject (Topic):
Murder, Criminal behavior, Prostitution, Young men, Conduct of life, Apprentices, Robbery, and Merchants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > An excellent ballad of George Barnwell : who was undone by a strumpet, who caused him to rob his master and murder his uncle
Published / Created:
[between 1775 and 1783?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Perjur'd ship-carpenter and Perjured ship-carpenter
Description:
Verse begins: "In Gosport of late there a damsel did dwell,".
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary Church [y]ard
Subject (Topic):
Murder, Rowboats, and Rowing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Gosport tragedy, or, The perjured ship-carpenter
Published / Created:
[1795?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Bloody brother
Description:
Verse - "Good Christian people all I pray,". - In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules.
Publisher:
Sold at no. 42, Long Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Incest, Murder, Defloration, Domestic relations, Brothers and sisters, and Gallows
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Leeds tragedy: or, The bloody brother
Published / Created:
[1775?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Constant lovers
Description:
Title above first two columns.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Barbados
Subject (Topic):
Love poetry, Parent and child, Cruelty, Merchants, Murder, Sailors, Ghosts, Letter writing, and Man-woman relationships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Yarmouth tragedy, or, The constant lovers
