"A man dressed in a smock and neckerchief weeps as a well dressed woman, dabbing her eye, reads from a slip ballad."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title engraved above image., Plate numbered 'No. 13' in upper right corner., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Four lines of text below image: As laughter is often excited by the most simple causes, so frequently is weeping, in this instance the hard and obdurate features, that would be callous to real sufferings, melts at the fancied sorrows of a village love ballad., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: country ballads.
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Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Bateman's tragedy and Godly warning to all maidens
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Date of publication from ESTC., Verse, known as 'Bateman's tragedy' - "You dainty dames so finely fram'd,". - In four columns, with the first and second as well as the third and fourth columns separated by ornamental rules; the title and first woodcut are above the first two columns while the second woodcut is above the third and fourth columns., Mounted on leaf 69. 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.
BEIN 2012 +230: Ms. puzzles tipped on versos of "Homeward bound" and "Hundred years ago." From the collection of Edward G. Levy., A collection of 18 broadside ballads published in Philadelphia, New York and Boston from about 1850 to 1890., All are undated and without music; publisher information appears on 15 of the 18 ballads, composer information on 5., Publishers: Thomas M. Scroggy (Philadelphia), A.W. Auner (Philadelphia), H.J. Kehr (Philadelphia), H. De Marsan (New York), Horace Partridge (Boston)., Composers: Francis F. Eastlack (The great know nothing song), John L. Zieber (The paupers), George Bombarger (Indian maid of the chapparal), Gus Williams (Mygel Snyder's bardy), Dave Brahm, (Market on Saturday night; [words by Ed. Harrigan]), and "Dr. H.H. Sterling, Sterling's ambrosia"--Printed at end of ballad with title "Ambrosial song."
A collection of 232 broadside ballads, pamphlets, and songs mounted, or laid in, in three volumes, mostly from the 18th century with a few possibly in the first years of the 19th century. All trimmed but some do include an imprint including some from Bath, Salisbury, Newcastle, Liverpool, Northampton, and perhaps Canterbury
Description:
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts (v. 2 and v.3) or Old English ballads (v.3).
A collection of 232 broadside ballads, pamphlets, and songs mounted, or laid in, in three volumes, mostly from the 18th century with a few possibly in the first years of the 19th century. All trimmed but some do include an imprint including some from Bath, Salisbury, Newcastle, Liverpool, Northampton, and perhaps Canterbury
Description:
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts (v. 2 and v.3) or Old English ballads (v.3).
A collection of 232 broadside ballads, pamphlets, and songs mounted, or laid in, in three volumes, mostly from the 18th century with a few possibly in the first years of the 19th century. All trimmed but some do include an imprint including some from Bath, Salisbury, Newcastle, Liverpool, Northampton, and perhaps Canterbury
Description:
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts (v. 2 and v.3) or Old English ballads (v.3).
