réf. 41475Boston: Sold at the Bible & Heart in Cornhill n. d. Ca 1785. 1st printing thus and evidently the 3rd US edition Evans 19401; Ford 3015; Rosenbach 101. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Edgewear & worming with some minor loss of text. Faint fold lines. Unobtrusive expert tissue mends. In lower margin in a period hand is inked: "Lycia Pratts Verses". A Fair - Good copy. Single sheet verse in thirty-eight stanzas triple column. First line: "Now ponder well you parents dear." Followed by two additional stanzas of verse entitled: "A Word of Advice to Executors." Crude woodcut of the fighting ruffians to the left of the sub-title. Folio. 12-1/2" x 8-1/8" A popular childhood ballad first registered at Stationers' Hall in 1595 the piece also subsequently published as "The Babes in the Woods." Shipton & Mooney record the first US edition as 1768 followed by the Heart & Crown imprint of the 1770s no copy located though see Rosenbach 64 then this Bible & Heart version ca 1785 date from Evans. A quite rare 18th C. US children's broadside. Sold at the Bible & Heart, in Cornhill unknown books