Rare Books
The wanton wife of Bath. Tune of, Flying fame, &c. Licens'd and enter'd
- Description
- ESTC N68217 ; Verse - "In Bath a wanton wife did dwell,". ; In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two the columns are not separated by rules.
- Date
- 1715?
- Call number
- 289725
- 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,)
![A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and a virtuous lady, and the untimely end of their two children, wickedly perform'd by a heathenish black-a-moor, their servant, the like never heard of before. To the tune of Flying fame, [sic]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4EQ3J54%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
