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.

The merry frolicks, or, the comical cheats of Swalpo, a notorious pick-pocket. And the merry pranks of Roger the clown.

Accession number
PML 8208.11
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
In this edition, the "or" in title is not followed by a comma, and only the first letter in the word "clown" is capitalized.
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