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The Suffolk miracle or, the relation of a young man, who after his death appeared to his sweet-heart, and carryed her behind him forty miles, in two hours time, and was never seen after, but in the grave. To the tune of, My Bleeding Heart, &c

Description: ESTC N68223 ; Verse - "A Wonder strange as e'er was known,". ; In this edition, there are four columns of text, with the title and two woodcuts above the first two columns. The first and second columns are separated by a line of ornamental type, as are the third and fourth. The woodcut above the first column is of a woman and the second column has a woodcut of a man standing with a cane. ; Range of publication dates from the Bodleian Library Ballads database.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: Between 1711 and 1769
Call number: 289741
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.

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