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1738rif. WRCAM16147London 1738. 7pp. Woodcut frontispiece. Folio. Later wrappers. Minor tears at folds of leaves else good. First edition first issue. An extremely attractive 18th-century British ballad critical of Walpole's dealing with Spain. The full-page woodcut shows the Spanish king pulling the tale of the British lion which is about to mount a cart and be led away by a group of clerics harnessed to the wagon. The text attacks the British conciliation with Spain in 1738-39 and suggests that "you excise them in land I'll excise them by sea" in other words buccaneering. unknown books
1795rif. 28043London 1795 1795. The only recorded edition. ESTC T204804 recording a single copy at Cambridge which contains the same apothecary's stamp. OCLC and COPAC record that same copy; Roud Folk Song Index V1851; and see Broadside Ballads Online at the Bodleian Library which also notes the apothecary's stamp. Paper repaired on the verso; some soiling and smudges; chipped in the upper margin with some loss but only to the blank margins; two small remains of mounting tape on the verso in the upper margin; a rare survival. Broadside 36 x 12 cm woodcut headpiece. Nine four-line stanzas. Attractive oval stamp in the lower margin of Peter Henry Chymist. A typical doggerel poem and somewhat bawdy written in the form of a slip ballad which begins "You young men all both far and near / Listen a while and you shall hear / Take care you're not drawn in a snare / By the girls that do love brandy / Wack Fla la &c." And in the fourth stanza: "'Tis on your backs girls you must lie / Pray which of you would this deny / A dish of tea or brandy." Etc. [London, 1795?] unknown books
rif. 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
rif. 12420BBBerlin, Insel (= Insel-Bücherei Band 2006), 2018. 8°, 78 S., mit einer ganzseitig farbig illustrierte Titelseite sowie zahlreichen ganzseitigen Farbabbildungen, farbig illustr. original Pappband (Hardcover), Sonderausgabe Rückdeckel und Einbandkanten mit vereinzelten, dünnen, winzigkleinen Beschabungen, sonst aber ein sehr schönes, frisches, sauberes Exemplar mit ebensolchem Rücken.
2013rif. 55263Island, 2013. Auflage: Standard Version CD CD
1992rif. 55154Atlantic, 1992. CD CD
1991rif. 29102Teldec, 1991. 9031-72025-2 1 CD CD
2002rif. 51114Traumton, 2002. 4464 CD Digipack
1997rif. 54539Beaux, 1997. 4444 CD CD
1997rif. 54559Beaux, 1997. 4444 CD CD
2004rif. 54082FNM, 2004. 0263 2 DVD DVD
1989rif. 53970Time Life, 1989. RRC-G02 CD CD
rif. 50071Warner Rec., 2019. 2 CD CD
1989rif. 53127Elektra, 1989. CD CD
1995rif. 53581Zyx, 1995. 20343-2 CD CD
1991rif. 48431Prestige, 1991. OJCCD-298-2 CD CD
2014rif. 49575Naive, 2014. NV832011 CD Digipack
1990rif. 54226Island Records, 1990. 260604 CD CD
rif. 52901Air Music And Media, [o.J.]. AMU048 2 CD CD
2002rif. 54421Columbia, 2002. 506226-2 CD CD
1988rif. 54040A & M Records (Universal Music), 1988. 395224-2 CD CD
1991rif. 3119219Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1991. VIII, 317 Seiten. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].
1997rif. 38452ABFreies Schauspiel Ensemble Franfurt, um 1997. CD, Laufzeit: ca. 1 Std., im original Jewel Case und mit dem original booklet, sehr guter Zustand
1826rif. 014495T. Davison, Whitefriars 1826. 1.Auflage Dieser Ausgabe Goldgeprägter Ganzlederband Gut, Schön, Solide
1810rif. 174973London: printed and sold by J. Pitts c. 1810. An ephemeral broadside ballad detailing the story of Jane Shore a mistress of Edward IV and a popular cultural reference for many centuries. Shore's heavily fictionalized story featured many elements considered to have mass appeal in the era: a sexually voracious woman a relationship that transcended social hierarchies and an ending that punished transgressive behaviour. In Mrs. Jane Shore the eponymous character is described as a married woman who became King Edward's concubine and "lived in the court/With lords and ladies of great sort". Whilst she had influence over the King she ensured "to help the people that were poor" and "sav'd their lives condemned to die". Regardless her infidelity ultimately led to her social disgrace and she died in a ditch in East London. As detailed in the ballad urban mythology claimed that her unfortunate death gave the Shoreditch district its name. Ballads such as this were sung in a variety of communal spaces including pubs lodging houses and the streets and typically took criminal or socially deviant behaviour as their subject. In their own time broadside ballads were believed "to foster immorality and to glorify crime" O'Brien p. 16. More recent interpretations appreciate their literary and social value and consider that "their job was to voice tensions to work over the contradictions of human life" Gammon p. 237. Landscape single sheet 362 x 252 mm printed in columns. A little chipped at the edges but overall a well-preserved copy of a fragile publication. Vic Gammon "Song Sex and Society in England 1600-1850" Folk Music Journal vol. 4 no. 3 1982; Ellen L. O'Brien "'The Most Beautiful Murder': The Transgressive Aesthetics of Murder in Victorian Street Ballads" Victorian Literature and Culture vol. 28 no. 1 2000. unknown
