Accession number:
PML 8218.11
Published:
[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London, [between 1770 and 1790?]
Description:
24 p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 16 cm.
Credit:
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes:
Woodcut on t.p. shows two men at a table, accompanied by a woman who stands at left holding a carafe.
In this edition, "Church Yard" and "Bow Lane" are not hyphenated, and single straight rules are printed above and below the woodcut on t.p.
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.
Variant Title:
Mirth in abundance
Provenance:
Bookplate of Henry Cunliffe; autograph of John Heaviside; from the Toovey collection.
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