Title from item., A slip-song, earlier known as "Chloe monita" and also known as "Old Darby and Joan" and "Damon's advice to Chloe" - "Dear Chloe while thus beyond measure"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '24'., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional four stanzas below., Opening words: Dear Chloe, while thus beyond measure ..., Plate from: G. Bickham's, The Musical entertainer, v.1., and Plate number erased from this impression.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in partial loss of plate numbering., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate., For voice and keyboard instrument., Plate numbered '1[8]' in upper right corner., Opening words: What Cato advises, most certainly wise is ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: countermark E., and Plate number partially cut off.
A design within a decorative cartouche, suggestive of a proscenium arch: A well dressed young man stands in the center of a room in the prison in which are five other figures. On the left, a ragged unshaven man in a striped garment is sitting on a bale, a small woman stands beside him. Behind them is a table with a mug on it. On the floor near the man's foot lies a paper inscribed "Sceen [sic] 4. Nation's debts". On the young man's left, another prisoner is sitting on a bench. In front of him is another bench with a carafe of gin and a glass on it. He is the singer of the song. Behind him stands a little boy with a flagon of beer in his left hand. The turnkey in the background holds an open book and is pointing to a page marked "Garnish(?)".
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Title from item., Probably based on Hogarth's Rake's progress, plate 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music for voice on two staves with interlinear words. Additional six stanzas below., Plate numbered '26' in upper right corner., Opening words: Welcome, welcome brother debtor ..., Plate from: Bickham, G. The musical entertainer, v.2., and Plate number erased from this impression.
Title from item., Plate numbered '5' in lower left corner., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional stanza below. Part for flute at foot of page., Opening words: By masons art ye aspiring dome, in various columns shall arise ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v.1., Watermark., and Plate number erased from this impression.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Plate numbered '45' in upper right corner., Dedication below title: To the Right Honble the Lord Walpole these four plates are humbly inscribd [sic]., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music for voice on two staves with interlinear words., Opening words: Fill ye bond wth [sic] flowing measure ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v. 2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate number erased from this impression.
Title from item., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional three stanzas below. Part for flute at foot of page., Plate numbered '42' in upper right corner., "To ye tune of ye Black Joke"--Lower right corner of plate., Opening words: Whence comes it that ye shining great, to titles born and awful state ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, volume1., Watermark: countermark E., and Annotation in an unidentified hand at bottom of sheet, recto.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music for two voices on three staves with interlinear words. Additional four stanzas below., Plate numbered '22' in upper right corner., Opening words: Here's to thee my boy, my darling, my joy ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, v.2., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate number erased from this impression.
