Verse begins: "Attend you nymphs and virgins,"., In three columns; the title and illustration above the first column; the imprint at foot of the third column, below a series of long dashes; the columns are not separated by rules., Dating based on the imprint; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 14. 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.
Publisher:
Printed at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard
Subject (Topic):
Songs, English, Shepherds, Shepherdesses, and Sheep
Caption titles., Two slip songs printed on one sheet, in two columns, each titled separately. Woodcut above title in first column., Printer's statement from first column. Additional printer's statements in second column following caption title: Printed & sold by J. Pitts, 6, Grea[t] Andrew Street, 7 Dials . Also below text in second column: Pitts, wholesale toy warehouse., In verse., First line of "The poor royal stranger": Ye fair of this island fam'd for commerce and arts ..., First line of "Britons claim her as your Queen!!": Britons! who have ever been ..., and Partially edge-mounted. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Pitts, printer and wholesale toy warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
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.
Caption title in letterpress below image., The illustration is by Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works. No. 180, v. 1, p. 202-204., First line of first recitative: Twas at the gates of Calais, Hogarth tells, where sad despair and famine always dwell ..., Date based on Tringham's location at Royal Exchange. The first recorded edition of Theodosius Forrest's cantata printed below, is 1759., Three columns of verses alternating Recitative and Air., and On page 145 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Printed for W. Tringham, under the North Piazza of the Royal Exchange, in Threadneedle-Street
A sailor (just returned, his dropped knapsack in the right foreground) supports his swooning wife, overcome at seeing him return, outside a thatched cottage, while a little girl and a little boy (broom in hand) on the left hurry up to help; a pig in the foreground, two lush trees in the yard, and a ship and sea in the background; illustration to a song., Title etched below image and above verses., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered '300' in lower left of plate., Three columns of verse, each 14 lines, below title: Bleak was the morn when William left his Nancy ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 17th June 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bags, Brooms & brushes, Children, Couples, Dwellings, Homecomings, Sailors, British, Ships, Swine, and Young adults
A slip-song - "O brave England’s forces!"., "In praise of James Butler, duke of Ormonde's campaigns in Spain against Cadiz and Vigo; after his banishment" (Foxon)., Foxon dates this "[1715/-]"; that is, no earlier than 1715 (the year of Ormonde’s banishment), but with no terminus ante quem specified., Mounted on leaf 43. 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Spain
Subject (Name):
Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688
Subject (Topic):
Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1747, Campaigns, Vigo Bay, Battle of, Spain, 1702, Naval warfare, Warships, and Sailing ships
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.
A clergyman baptizes a child who is submerged in a punch bowl, as his parents and another couple look on. Also on the table are two full glasses of punch
Description:
Title engraved on banner in the image., Twelve verses engraved in two columns below image, beginning: Come listen awhile, I will make you to smile, With a story that's certainly true ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Numbered in ms. top left: 16.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 16, 1787 by C. Sheppard, No. 19 Lambeth Hill, Doctors Commons
Under a large tree on the outskirts of a village, a Gypsy woman holds the hand of one of a pair of pretty, fashionably dressed young ladies as she tells her fortune. The young woman hides her face behind her fan. A little Gypsy girl glasps the skirts of her mother
Alternative Title:
Sweet little Gypsy
Description:
Title engraved below image., Thirty-four lines of verse in four columns printed below title: Come hither, ye girls, and attend to my call ..., Plate numbered "365" in lower left below image., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 5th Novr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Romanies, Clothing & dress, Fortune telling, Girls, and Women
