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., Verse - "Lord Thomas he was a bold forester,"., In three columns with the title and woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., In this edition line 3 of title is printed in roman type., Imprint below thrid column., Mounted on leaf 74. 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.
Range of publication dates from the Bodleian Library Ballads database., Verse - "Lord Thomas he was a bold Forester,"., In this edition, the text is in four columns, with the title and two woodcuts (one of a man; the other of a woman) above the first two columns. The first and second columns are separated by lines of ornamental type, as are the third and fourth columns., Mounted on leaf 73. 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 Thomas Saint
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Man-woman relationships, Murder, Suicide, Courtship, and Betrayal
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.
A scrapbook of advertisements, broadsides, single sheet verse, newspaper clippings, with some manuscript materials laid in, somewhat organized topically, with material covering over a 95-year period, from the 1740s to 1838, but mostly dating from the last quarter of the 18th century. Topics included are: Gallantry, matrimony, conjurers and fortune tellers, clubs and societies, places of entertainment, spectacles such as exotic animals, curiosities of nature, freaks, etc. ; sporting events; advertisements for apparel; medical remedies and cosmetics; plays, ballets, and performances; obituaries and accounts of strange deaths; schools for gentlemen; balloon flights; puppets, mechanical inventions; comic poetry, epigrams, epitaphs, odes, ballads; jokes; accounts of ghosts and spiritual magic; auctions; religion; want ads; cooking; army recruiting; real estate; advertisements for books; strange accounts of bizarre crimes; traps; fire-fighting; accounts of the Thames; tobacco ads; shoes; public notices; election posters; fugitives from justice; wills and last testaments; lottery ads; notices relating to the Bonapartes; and other ads and reports including a print of a mummy
Description:
In English, with some entries in French., Title assigned by cataloger., Signed on inside front cover: "Beauchamp 1837.", and Imperfect impression of "A view of the menagerie in the King's Private Road," with bottom half of plate missing; laid in; not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and France
Subject (Topic):
Ballooning, Beauty, Personal, Clothing and dress, Entertainment events, Freak shows, Ghosts, Lotteries, Medical instruments and apparatus, Menageries, Sports, Violent crimes, Social life and customs, and Foreign public opinion, British
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Verse begins: "In London once lived a beautiful dame,"., Eight stanzas in two columns with the title and six woodcuts centered at head., Lewis Walpole Library copy: sheet trimmed; imprint statement wanting., Mounted on leaf 42. 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.
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Verse begins: "All you now are passing by,"., In two columns with woodcut and title centered above both., Mounted on leaf 48. 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:
s.n.
Subject (Topic):
Last words, Death's head, Skull & crossbones, Hourglasses, and Flags
Caption title., Title continues: which was committed on Sunday last, in White Post Lane, near East Ham, in the county of Essex, upon Richard Moss, a youth only 14 years of age, who was robbed and murdered by a footpad., In one column with title and woodcut above; no rules or onamental type present., Date of publication conjectured based on date of the crime 8 September 1782. The murderer was executed on 10 March 1783., First line: Sunday last the following bloody murder was committed upon the body of an unhappy youth, without the least provocation ..., Mounted on leaf 33. 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:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
England and Essex
Subject (Topic):
Murder, Deaths head, Skull & crossbones, Hourglasses, and Banners
Verse begins: "All you that delight in merriemnt,", In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Imprint below fourth column., Another printing (ESTC T207047), apparently from the same setting of type, has no imprint., 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., 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. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at No. 4 Aldermary, Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Man-woman relations, Moral and ethical aspects, Seduction, Pregnancy, Weddings, Shoemakers, and Eating & drinking
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Verse begins: "As I was riding to market"., In one column with title and one woodcut above verse and a second woodcut below verse., Mounted on leaf 29. 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.
