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.

Mother bunch's closet newly broke open : Containing, rare secrets of art & nature, tried and experienced by learned philosophers, and recommended to all ingenious young men and maids. Teaching them, in a natural way, how to get good wives and husbands. By our loving friend poor Tom, for the King, a lover of Mirth, but a hater of treason. Part the first.

Accession number
PML 8218.4
Published
[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, [between 1770 and 1790?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
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