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The cruel cooper of Ratcliff

Description: ESTC N68226 ; Verse - "Near Ratcliff-Cross lived a Cooper there". ; In this edition, the text is in four columns with the title above the first two columns. There is a woodcut above the first column of a man standing with a hose wrapped around his left arm. The text is not separated by any rules.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1770?
Call number: 289766
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: 22 x 31 cm (obl.1/2 sheet)
Associated people: Perrins, Charles William Dyson, (1864-1958,)
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289731

The cruel cooper of Ratcliff

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