Rare Books
Children in the wood (Ballad)
- Description
- ESTC N68221 ; Verse - "Now ponder well you parents dear,". ; Also published under titles "The children in the wood ..." and "The history of the two children in the wood ...". ; In this edition, the text is in five columns, with the title and the woodcut above the first three columns. The first, second, and third columns are separated by lines of ornamental type, as well as the fourth and fifth columns. The woodcut displays two men fighting with swords.
- Date
- Printed in this present year. [1740?]
- Call number
- 289734
- 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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