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• Title:The five strange wonders of the world.
  
• Published/Created:[London] : Printed and sold in Bow-Church-Yard, London, [between 1736 and 1763?]
  
• Physical Description:1 sheet ([1] p.) : 4 woodcuts ; 36 x 28 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Mounted on leaf 44. Copy trimmed.
    Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
    
  • Provenance:One of three volumes of ballads purchased from P. Murray Hill by W.S. Lewis; July 1948.
    
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• Notes:Text begins: There are five strange wonders in the world. To hear a lawyer tell truth, to see a prodigal turn thrifty ...
  In three columns with the title and four woodcuts above all columns; the columns are not separated by rules; the imprint is at the foot of the third column, below a single rule.
  Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157.
  Printseller's announcement following imprint: Where may be had, the greatest choice of histories, old and new ballads, patters, &c. better printed than at any other place.
  
• Variant and related titles:There are five strange wonders in the world ...
  To hear a lawyer tell truth, to see a prodigal turn thrifty ...
  
• Format:Book
• References:English short title catalogue, N511054
  
• Subjects:Maxims--Early works to 1800.
  Horseback riding.
  Tobacco pipes.
  Dogs.
  Butcher shops.
  Fans (Accessories)
  
• Genre/Form:Broadsides.
  Woodcuts.
  
• Also listed under:England--London.