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

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

No jest like a true jest : being a compendious record of the merry life and mad exploits of Capt. James Hind, the great robber of England. Together with the close of all at Worcester, where he was hanged, drawn, and quartered, for high treason, against the Common Wealth, on September 24, 1652.

Accession number
PML 8207.15
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, the title page vignette shows a single horseman and the last word of the first line of the imprint is "Church".
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.
Classification
Department