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The midnight messenger, or, A sudden call from an earthly glory to the cold grave : in a dialogue

Published / Created:
[1775?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Sudden call from an earthly glory to the cold grave
Description:
Verse begins: "Thou wealthy man of large possessions here,"., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118., Printed in four columns with two woodcuts and the title above the first two; imprint at foot of the fourth column, below a single rule; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 6. 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 sol by J. Evans, 41 Long-Lane
Subject (Topic):
Death, Religious aspects, Christianity, Songs, English, Ballads, English, Dialogues, English, Skeletons, Hourglasses, and Arrows
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The midnight messenger, or, A sudden call from an earthly glory to the cold grave : in a dialogue between death and a rich man, who, in the midst of all his wealth, received the tidings of his last day, to his unspeakable and sorrowful lamentations. Tune- aim not too high &c.