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An excellent ballad of St. George and the dragon

Description: ESTC T33697 ; Imprint suggested by cataloger. ; Verse - "Why should we boast". ; In four columns with the title and the woodcut above the first two; the first and second columns are separated by a line of ornamental type as well as the third and fourth.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1750?
Call number: 289732
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 broadsheet
Associated people: Perrins, Charles William Dyson, (1864-1958,)
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