Accession number
PML 8218.14
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 "o" in "cobler" on the t.p. is slightly larger than the the other letters; caption title on p. 2 is printed between a double and a single straight rule.
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.
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
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