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.

Simple Simon's misfortunes and his wife Margery's cruelty : Which began the very next morning after their marriage.

Accession number
PML 8219.2
Published
[London] : Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, [between 1770 and 1790?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Variant editions of this chapbook have "London" at the end of the imprint on t.p.
Vertical chain lines.
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