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The bloody gardener's cruelty ; or, the shepherd's daughter betray'd
- Description
- ESTC N68771 ; Verse - "Come all you constant lovers, and to me lend an ear,". ; The text is in three columns, not separated by rules. The title and two woodcuts are above the first two columns. The first woodcut is of a man and woman standing side-by-side next to a woman in a heart held by some man. The second woodcut pictures a bird with a branch in its beak.
- Date
- 1750?
- Call number
- 289749
- 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
- 20 x 28 cm (oblong 1/2 sheet)
- Associated people
- Perrins, Charles William Dyson, (1864-1958,)
