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Description: ESTC N68216 ; Verse - "All you that delight in a jest that is true," - In four columns with the title above the first two columns; the columns are not separated by ornamental rules. Another broadside ballad with the same title begins "Behold near the borders of fair Dorsetshire."
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1760?
Call number: 289722
Provenance: Purchased from Francis Edward, 1953. With the bookplate of C. W. Dyson Perrins. Previously bound with other ballads and broadside printed materials in a red grained morocco binding. The items were disbound and cataloged separately, see call numbers 289716-289788. The binding was retained, see call number: 195358.
Dimensions: (oblong 1/2 sheet)
Associated people: Perrins, Charles William Dyson, (1864-1958,)
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