The history of Mother Shipton.

Accession number: 
PML 8208.15
Published: 
[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, [between 1770 and 1790?]
Description: 
24 p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 16 cm.
Credit: 
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes: 

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.

Variant Title: 

Mother Shipton

Provenance: 
Bookplate of Henry Cunliffe; autograph of John Heaviside; from the Toovey collection.
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