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The Plymouth tragedy: or, fair Susan's overthrow

Description: ESTC T42509 ; Verse - "Beautiful virgins of birth and breeding,". ; In four columns not separated by rules the title and woodcut are above the first two columns.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1750?
Call number: 289743
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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