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• Title:[British broadside ballads from the 18th century].
  
• Production:[England], [between 1700 and 1800]
  
• Physical Description:3 volumes ; 43 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio 74 OL1
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
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• Notes:Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts (v. 2 and v.3) or Old English ballads (v.3).
  Purchased by W.S. Lewis July 1948 from Peter Murray Hill.
  
• Summary:A collection of 232 broadside ballads, pamphlets, and songs mounted, or laid in, in three volumes, mostly from the 18th century with a few possibly in the first years of the 19th century. All trimmed but some do include an imprint including some from Bath, Salisbury, Newcastle, Liverpool, Northampton, and perhaps Canterbury.
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Broadsides--England.
  Ballads, English--England.
  Songs--England.
  
• Genre/Form:Broadside poems.
  Ballads.
  
• Also listed under:England.