British BalladABAA
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1738WRCAM16147London 1738. 7pp. Woodcut frontispiece. Folio. Later wrappers. Minor tears at folds of leaves else good. First edition first issue. An extremely attractive 18th-century British ballad critical of Walpole's dealing with Spain. The full-page woodcut shows the Spanish king pulling the tale of the British lion which is about to mount a cart and be led away by a group of clerics harnessed to the wagon. The text attacks the British conciliation with Spain in 1738-39 and suggests that "you excise them in land I'll excise them by sea" in other words buccaneering. unknown books
179528043London 1795 1795. The only recorded edition. ESTC T204804 recording a single copy at Cambridge which contains the same apothecary's stamp. OCLC and COPAC record that same copy; Roud Folk Song Index V1851; and see Broadside Ballads Online at the Bodleian Library which also notes the apothecary's stamp. Paper repaired on the verso; some soiling and smudges; chipped in the upper margin with some loss but only to the blank margins; two small remains of mounting tape on the verso in the upper margin; a rare survival. Broadside 36 x 12 cm woodcut headpiece. Nine four-line stanzas. Attractive oval stamp in the lower margin of Peter Henry Chymist. A typical doggerel poem and somewhat bawdy written in the form of a slip ballad which begins "You young men all both far and near / Listen a while and you shall hear / Take care you're not drawn in a snare / By the girls that do love brandy / Wack Fla la &c." And in the fourth stanza: "'Tis on your backs girls you must lie / Pray which of you would this deny / A dish of tea or brandy." Etc. <br/><br/> [London, 1795?] unknown books
41475Boston: Sold at the Bible & Heart in Cornhill n. d. Ca 1785. 1st printing thus and evidently the 3rd US edition Evans 19401; Ford 3015; Rosenbach 101. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Edgewear & worming with some minor loss of text. Faint fold lines. Unobtrusive expert tissue mends. In lower margin in a period hand is inked: "Lycia Pratts Verses". A Fair - Good copy. Single sheet verse in thirty-eight stanzas triple column. First line: "Now ponder well you parents dear." Followed by two additional stanzas of verse entitled: "A Word of Advice to Executors." Crude woodcut of the fighting ruffians to the left of the sub-title. Folio. 12-1/2" x 8-1/8" <br/><br/>A popular childhood ballad first registered at Stationers' Hall in 1595 the piece also subsequently published as "The Babes in the Woods." <br /> <br />Shipton & Mooney record the first US edition as 1768 followed by the Heart & Crown imprint of the 1770s no copy located though see Rosenbach 64 then this Bible & Heart version ca 1785 date from Evans. <br /> <br />A quite rare 18th C. US children's broadside. Sold at the Bible & Heart, in Cornhill unknown books
