Verse begins: "A good old man, no matter where,"., In two columns, separated by a column of type ornaments; the title and imprint span the columns at head and foot; there is a row of type ornaments abov the imprint; all within a border of type ornaments., Price below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price an half-penny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.-9d. for 25., This form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney)., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, ’Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.’ In Library, 4th series, volume 20:3 (December 1939), 17., Description based on imperfect impression., Mounted on leaf 11. Copy trimmed with loss of imprint at the foot and "Cheap Repository" at the top., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Subject (Topic):
Fables, English, Christian life, Conduct of life, Families, Children, Fuelwood, and Older people
Verse begins: "Come gentlemen, and hear this ditty,"., Printed in four columns with the woodcut and title above the first two; the imprint below the last two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Atkinson, "Street literature printing in Stonecutter Street (1740s-1780s)", Publishing history 78 (2018), 1-45., Mounted on leaf 19. 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 and sold in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet Market
Verse -- "You gallant beaus of pleasure,". -, In five columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first three; the imprint spans the bottom of the last two, below a series of long dashes; the columns are separated by columns of ornamental rules and type ornaments., 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. 2.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Husband and wife, Money, Prostitution, Wealth, Swine, Dogs, Chickens, Roosters, and Birds
