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- Published / Created:
- [between 1680 and 1710?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Description:
- In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; imprint below the last three; the columns are not separated by rules., Date range conjectural; other ballads with similar imprints are also undated; printer’s name conjectured from other imprints recorded by Wing., Verse begins: "In Rome a nobleman did wed"., In this setting line 24 begins with "straight"., Not in Wing., Mounted on leaf 52. Copy trimmed., Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1., and Sheet in two pieces repaired and mounted as one piece.
- Publisher:
- Printed by and for C.B. [Brown?] and sold by J. Walter, at the Hand and Pen in High Holborn
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and vertuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children, wickedly performed by a heathenish and blood-thirsty blackamore, their servant, the like of which cruelty and murther was never before heard of. To the tune of The lady's fall, &c. Enter’d according to order