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EPHEMERA - PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT A collection of 28 broadside ballad sheets, including; The Unhappy Lady of Hackney; The Crafty London 'Prentice, or Bow Bells; The Wanton Wife of Bath; Ralph and Nell's Ramble to Oxford, [c.1820]; and others, including scottish watercolour album, one manuscript leaf, etc. (small quantity) image 1
EPHEMERA - PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT A collection of 28 broadside ballad sheets, including; The Unhappy Lady of Hackney; The Crafty London 'Prentice, or Bow Bells; The Wanton Wife of Bath; Ralph and Nell's Ramble to Oxford, [c.1820]; and others, including scottish watercolour album, one manuscript leaf, etc. (small quantity) image 2
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EPHEMERA - PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT
A collection of 28 broadside ballad sheets, including; The Unhappy Lady of Hackney; The Crafty London 'Prentice, or Bow Bells; The Wanton Wife of Bath; Ralph and Nell's Ramble to Oxford, [c.1820]; and others, including scottish watercolour album, one manuscript leaf, etc. (small quantity)

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EPHEMERA, PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT

A collection of 28 broadside ballad sheets, including: The Unhappy Lady of Hackney; The Crafty London 'Prentice, or Bow Bells; The Wanton Wife of Bath; Ralph and Nell's Ramble to Oxford, printed in 4 columns, 19 with one or two woodcut illustrations, 3 laid down, oblong folio (255 x 360mm.), 2 printed by J. Evans, others by J. Pitt, [c.1800-1820]--[AUCTION CATALOGUE] Particulars of Very Valuable... Estates... Situated in and Near Tottenham Court Road, in the County of Middlesex... Which Will be Sold by Winstanley and Sons... Tuesday 19th [-20th] June, 1827... in 52 Lots, 12 pages, one folding lithographed plan (short holes at fold), disbound, [June, 1827]--Album of 26 good watercolour views of Scotland and a few of England, including Loch Lomond, Ben Nevis, Oban, Braemar Castle, Bridge at Dunkeld, Brodick, a few loose, morocco gilt with metal clasp, olbong 8vo (155 x 225mm.), [late nineteenth/early twentieth century]--Two incunabular leaves (folio cxxiiii-viii) printed by Anton Sorg from a work by Otto von Passau, 1480--Leaf from an illuminated manuscript Antiphonal, on vellum, black ink on 6-line staves in red ink, capitals in red, one large initial in colours on a gilt background (50 x 55mm.), with decoration (including central cartouche enclosing Medici balls) in lower margin, this and initial probably added later or overpainted, 375 x 262mm., [Italy, c.1500]; and other miscellaneous material, including Garrick's bookplate, several London trade billheads, an envelope with an ink sketch of a woman holding a letter and a penny red stamp franked Dublin, 28 February 1858 on upper panel, a couple of bookbinder's tickets, chapbooks, etc. (small quantity)

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