A young woman picking apples is watched by a youth who hides behind the tree and bushes on the right, his right hand over his heart; more trees in the background and the edge of a thatched cottage to left and a stream in the distance, right
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Below title is engraved a song of six verses in three columns that begins: On Richmond Hill there lives a lass, More bright than May-day morn ...
Publisher:
Published July 20th, 1794, by John Fairburn, map, chart & printseller, No. 146 Minories, London
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "Young lovers pray draw near, a story you shall hear,". - In four columns with the title over the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Lewis Walpole Library copy: Full imprint reads: "London : Printed and sold at Sympson's Warehouse, in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet-Market"., 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. 3.
Publisher:
printed and sold at Sympson's warehouse
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Merchants, Criminal behavior, Love, Letter-writing, Charity, Man-woman relationships, and Social life and customs
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "Kind gentlemen, will you be patient a while?". - Prefatory note and illustration taken from 'A collection of old ballads', 1723-25., Printed in five columns with the title, woodcut, and prose introduction above the first three; the columns are not separated lines of ornamental type., Full imprint reads: Northampton Printed for Robert Dicey; of whom may be had all sorts of old and new ballads, broad-sheets, histories, pictures cut in wood, and engrav'd on copper plate, &c. with finer cuts, much better printed, and cheaper than in any other place in England., Also available on microfilm. - Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1985. - 1 reel ; 35mm. - (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1491, no. 44) [For microfilm ask in Rare Books Room]., Mounted on leaf 38. Copy trimmed. In two pieces rejoined and repaired., 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 from ESTC., Verse in three parts: "Of all the merry frolicks"., In five columns with the title above the first two; one woodcut is above the first column depicting a man and the second depicting a demon is above the fourth column; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 17. 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 by M. Bowley, No. 96 Aldersgate Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Fathers and daughters, Parent and child, Courtship, Lifestyle, Deception, Man-woman relationships, Clergy, Love, and Demons
Werter clutches his head in anguish as he stands before Charlotte on a sofa supporting her head on one hand as she reaches out imploringly towards Werter. The pictures on the wall amplify the subject
Alternative Title:
Last interview
Description:
Title etched below image., Text below publisher's line: At length with the firm determined voice of Virtue she cried Werter, and he was awed by it, tearing himself from her arms., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 29 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14 Marylebone Street Golden Square
True love requited, or, The bailiffs daughter of Islington and Bailiffs daughter of Islington
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - Above the woodcut: "The young man's friends the maid did scorn," and below it: "There was a youth, and a well-beloved youth,". - In three columns with the title above the first two and the woodcut in the first; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Mounted on leaf 55. 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 Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Love, Man-woman relationships, Apprentices, and Social life and customs
Cliff, Jer. Jeremiah?, apothecary at Tenterdon, Kent
Call Number:
Osborn c158
Image Count:
500
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of several hundred primarily religious or lighthearted entries, including poetry, recipes, sermons, epitaphs, extracts, and a treatise on the months and phases of the moon. The manuscript contains verses copied from early 17th-century books, including Remains concerning Britain by William Camden and Josuah Sylvester's translation of Du Bartas's Divine weeks & works, as well as more contemporary works, such as The true-Bred Englishman and The mock-mourners, by Daniel Defoe. Several of the religious poems are anti-Catholic, while others focus on the subjects of women and love, Other entries include extracts from sermons of Hugh Latimer and colloquies of Erasmus; recipes, including some from Helmes Trismegistus; extracts from the Journal of Nathaniel Mist; and a lengthy treatise on the months, the phases of the moon, and astrological signs entitled The shepherd's kalendar, which is accompanied by illustrations of astrological signs; a shepherd reaching for the stars;and a diagram with moveable parts, held in place by a pin, and In addition to the illustrations accompanying the astrological treatise, the manuscript contains a drawing of the Virgin Mary titled "Taken oute of T. V. Monk of the holy Order of St. Benedict It shews their absurdity."
Description:
In English., The author's name appears on p. 2, where he writes, "Songs, Poems, Epitaphs, and some Fragments of Old Doctor Zatimers sermons taught above a hund and fifty year agoe all very diverting to young people all collected by me Jer: Cliff in the yeares 1697: 97:99:700: 701: 702:: & 703 to 1728.", Index at end of volume., Written on back flyleaf: Sarah Cliff Her Book July the 18 1741. Given her by her father., and Binding: vellum boards. Pen trials on both front and back covers.
