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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.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
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,)
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