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

The witch of the woodlands, or, The cobler's new translation. : Here Robin the cobler for his former evils is punish'd bad as Faustus with his devils.

Accession number
PML 8219.1
Creator
L. P. (Laurence Price), active 1625-1680?
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
Anonymous. By Laurence Price.
Vertical chain lines.
In this edition, the first line of the imprint on title page ends, "Church Yard"; woodcut on page 19 of a prancing horse, facing left, with a series of three designs made up of type ornaments at foot of page, and with the page number printed in round brackets.
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