In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Caption title., Verse begins: "Young women, if you draw near awhile", Dated from the address; see see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736 1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157, at p. 157., In four columns, not separated by rules; title and illustration are above the first two columns; the imprint is at the foot of the fourth column., Mounted on leaf 10. 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.
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
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Cf. Caroline of Dartmouth : a celebrated new song / composed by Mr. Dignum., Possibly a fragment or detached from larger work., Six stanzas arranged in a single column with title centered above. No rules or ornamental type appear on sheet., Mounted on leaf 11. 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.
A slip-song - "Why, fair maid, in ev'ry feature,". - The imprint comes immediately after the title. - The "lady" is Lady Charlotte Campbell., Mounted on leaf 71. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Verse begins: "English blankets and broad cloths,"., Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Between the title and the poem proper, spanning both columns, are four lines of introductory verse: John Malcolm, merchant, on the Green, | I' th' good old town of Aberdeen; | sells the following useful things, | to suit both beggars, lords, and kings.", In two columns, separated by an ornamental rule; signed at the foot of the second column: "John Malcolm, on the Green"; imprint at foot, spanning both columns, below a wavy ornamental rule., Signed below second column: John Malcolm, On the green., Mounted on leaf 17. 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 by J. Hammond, (at his office, ) St. Martin's Lane, five doors below the church
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
Caption title., 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., Verse begins: "There was a rich man, who had treasures great,"., In three columns with the title centered above all three and the imprint below the third column; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 18. 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.
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
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