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An excellent ballad of King John and the abbot of Canterbury. To the tune of, The king and lord abbot
- Description
- ESTC T33696 ; Range of publication dates from the Bodleian Library Ballads database. ; Verse - "I will tell you a story, a story anon,". ; Printed in four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two with lines of ornamental type between the first two columns as well as the third and fourth columns.
- Date
- Between 1711 and 1769
- Call number
- 289757
- 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 broadsheet
- Associated people
- Perrins, Charles William Dyson, (1864-1958,)
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