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The merry broom-field: or, the West Country wager. To a new tune. Licens'd according to order
- Description
- ESTC N3858 ; Verse - "A noble young 'squire that liv'd in the West".
- Date
- 1760?
- Call number
- 289760
- 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
- (1/2 sheet)
- Associated people
- Perrins, Charles William Dyson, (1864-1958,)


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