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The princely lovers garland
- Description
- ESTC T44329 ; Verse - "Once I read a noble volume,". ; In five columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first three the columns are not separated by rules. ; Final line reads literally: "He is ace, borrinp royal sir,n.". ; Supposed printers' names from the Bodleian Library Ballads database. ; Place and date of publication conjectured by cataloguer.
- Date
- 1720?
- Call number
- 289763
- 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 31 cm (oblong broadsheet)
- Associated people
- Perrins, Charles William Dyson, (1864-1958,)
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