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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The siege of Troy, or, The history of the Trojan wars : containing, the birth, life, glorious actions, and death of Hercules ... The valiant deeds of the famous Hector ... The rape of fair Helen ... And lastly, the arrival of Brute, in Britain, ... and the building Troy-Novant, now London.

Accession number
PML 8206.4
Published
[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow Lane, London, [between 1770 and 1790].
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Research by David Stoker suggests a general publication date range spanning from the 1770s to the 1780s for chapbooks bearing the "Aldermary Churchyard" and "Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Lane" imprints, with those bearing the street address "No. 4 Aldermary Churchyard" probably printed sometime after the mid 1770s.
Description
24 p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 16 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of Henry Cunliffe; autograph of John Heaviside; from the Toovey collection.
Binding
Beige cloth; PML8205-19 bound as a uniform set, with binder's title on spine: Minor historians.
Classification
Department