Verse - "D'ang it! I be glad to zee ye al I vow,"., Includes a song, to the tune of "Alley Croker"; first line: "Up and down, round about, al the streets I paraded,"., In three columns with the title across the sheet; the columns are not separated by rules., First published in 1789 (and apparently also first performed that year; see ESTC T9977); Knight first appeared in London in the character of Jacob in Lee’s comedy in 1795; he may have performed the role in Bath prior to that., A footnote explains that the character of Jacob Gawkey is from Miss Lee's comedy, "The Chapter of Accidents"., Mounted on leaf 39. 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.
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse engraved below title: "The summer it was smiling all nature round was gay ... Song of Auld Robin Gray.", Dedication below verse: "To Mrs. Brereton this plate is inscrib'd, by her much obliged servant, Saml. Shelley.", and Mounted to 24 x 17 cm.
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Publish'd as the act directs, June 20th 1785, by S. Watts, No. 50 opposite Old Round Court, Strand
"Two men and two women, all tipsy, drink and dance in an ale-house, while beer gushes from a barrel whose spigot has been removed. Through a casement window a woman is seen running off with a joint of mutton on a dish. This John and his drunken wife Joan have thrown from the window."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Plate numbered '412' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Six numbered stanzas of verse arranged in three columns below title: John Appleby was a mans name and he liv'd near the sign of the kettle, his wife was call'd Joan Quiet, because she could scold but a little ...
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Published Novr. 20, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from song printed below on the same sheet., Plate numbered '482' in upper left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Thirty four lines of verse printed below image: I be come up to London, that whirligig place, To see Mother Goose on an odd wild-goose chase; so I quitted Tadcaster, and took to my heels, in the new flying waggon, that flies on broad wheels ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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Publish'd Feby. 1, 1808, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Verse begins: "I will tell you a story, a story anon,"., 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., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the imprint is at the foot of the last column, below a row of type ornaments; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Mounted on leaf 67. 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.
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Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London
"A pretty girl reclines on a sloping hayfield, a broken pitcher at her feet; a handome young haymaker points to the pitcher. Sixteen lines of verse are sung by 'sly Barney M'Cleary'. They end: For very soon after poor Kitty's disaster, The Devil a pitcher was 'whole' in Colerain."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Two columns of verse in letterpress below title: As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping, with a pitcher of milk from the fair of Colerain ..., and Plate numbered '507' in upper left corner.
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Publish'd Apr. 4, 1809, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"Scene in a lawyer's office with writing-desk, books, &c. An old man, flinching from a grotesque hairy Devil, who beckons him to Hell, is supported by a pretty young woman. On the wall are a print: 'Pilgrims Progress', a tiny figure surrounded by demons and flames; a notice inscribed 'Stamps'; and a pictorial '[Alm]anack'. On the chimney-piece a figure holds a (tilted) pair of scales and a candle gutters."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Two columns of verse in letterpress below title: Old Flam was a lawyer so grim, he married his maid, people say ..., Plate numbered '509' in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: John Hall 1805.
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Published 24 Augt. 1809 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Caption title., Directed by Aristide Bruant, proprietor, Cabaret du Mirliton., Illustrations chiefly by T. A. Steinlen., Includes songs (with music) by Aristide Bruant, contributions by Georges Courteline, Camille de Sainte-Crois, Oscar Méténier, etc., etc. theatrical notices, etc., No more published?, and Nos. 1-100 (1.-9. année) were issued from Oct.? 1885 to March 10, 1893.
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1885-1906] and Au Cabaret du Mirliton [etc.,
Subject (Topic):
French periodicals--History--19th century and French periodicals--History--20th century
Caption title., Directed by Aristide Bruant, proprietor, Cabaret du Mirliton., Illustrations chiefly by T. A. Steinlen., Includes songs (with music) by Aristide Bruant, contributions by Georges Courteline, Camille de Sainte-Crois, Oscar Méténier, etc., etc. theatrical notices, etc., No more published?, and Nos. 1-100 (1.-9. année) were issued from Oct.? 1885 to March 10, 1893.
Publisher:
1885-1906] and Au Cabaret du Mirliton [etc.,
Subject (Topic):
French periodicals--History--19th century and French periodicals--History--20th century
Caption title., Directed by Aristide Bruant, proprietor, Cabaret du Mirliton., Illustrations chiefly by T. A. Steinlen., Includes songs (with music) by Aristide Bruant, contributions by Georges Courteline, Camille de Sainte-Crois, Oscar Méténier, etc., etc. theatrical notices, etc., No more published?, and Nos. 1-100 (1.-9. année) were issued from Oct.? 1885 to March 10, 1893.
Publisher:
1885-1906] and Au Cabaret du Mirliton [etc.,
Subject (Topic):
French periodicals--History--19th century and French periodicals--History--20th century
