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The history of Lawrence Lazy. : Containing, his birth and slothful breeding ; how he served the shoemaker his wife, the squire's cook, and the farmer ; which by the laws of Lubberland, was accounted high treason. His arraignment and trial ; and happy deliverance from the many treasons laid to his charge.

Accession number
PML 8208.1
Published
[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, [between 1770 and 1790?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
In this edition there is a comma after "Containing" and the titlepage woodcut depicts a man sleeping by a haystack.
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