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The flowing cann

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In two columns with the title in a ribbon atop a woodcut below stanza one. Stanzas 2 and 3 below image. A sailor at a seaside tavern (Jack Ocum) dances with a young woman as he holds his tankard. The fiddle music is played by a man who stands beside a woman in the tavern doorway. In the distance on the right is a sailing ship and along the shore, two men in a row boat.

  • Author: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
  • Uniform Title: [Oddities. Song]
  • Title: The flowing cann.
  • Published: [London : Sold by J. Pitts, Great Saint Andrew St. ; Sold by C. Sheppard, Lambert Hill, Doctors Commons, Publish’d Septr. 18th. 1790?]

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790.09.18.01

Acquired October 2015

 

The riot, or, Half a loaf is better than no bread…

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The riot, or, Half a loaf is better than no bread

First line reads: Come neighbours, no longer be patient and quiet.

  • Author: More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
  • Title: The riot, or, Half a loaf is better than no bread : In a dialogue between Jack Anvil and Tom Hod. To the tune of “A cobler there was,” &c.
  • Published: [London] : Sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London; by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository,) at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country, [1795]

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Acquired June, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.

The gin-shop, or, A peep into a prison

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The gin-shop, or, A peep into a prison

Following imprint: “Great Allowance will be made to Shopkeepers and Hawkers.”

  • Author: More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
  • Title: The gin-shop, or, a peep into prison.
  • Published: [Bath] : Sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) at Bath; by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repositories, No. 17, Queen-street, Cheap-side, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [1795]

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Digital Collection

Acquired June, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.