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The mournful lady's garland

Description: ESTC T41471 ; First line: "True lovers all, both far and near,". ; This edition is not in numbered parts; the illustration is of a woman at a spinning wheel, with a hunting scene.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1750?
Call number: 289756
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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The Dorsetshire garland. Or, the beggar's wedding

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The United States of America : to all to whom these letters patent shall come

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Image of a letters patent certificate "No. 104996" issued to lithographer Louis Prang certifying he "invented a new and useful improvement in library shears" dated July 5, 1870; goddess Columbia with American flag and bald eagle at the center of a scene featuring the industrial and agrarian sides of the United States; woman at left cards wool near a spinning wheel with machinery and an industrial city behind her; man at right holds a hand scythe and watches another farmer harvest a field with a horse team and machinery; official seal and ribbon at bottom left.

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289728

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The two unfortunate lovers. Being a true relation of the lamentable end of John True and Susan Massie. Their lives this ditty doth relate, tho' they dy'd unfortunate. To the tune of, The bride's burial

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ESTC N68229 ; Verse - "Attend, you lovers, and give ear,". ; In this edition, the text is in five columns, with the title and woodcut above the first three columns. The first, second, and third columns are separated by plain rules, as are the fourth and fifth columns. The woodcut is of a funeral procession led by someone on horseback.

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The mournful lady's garland

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