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No jest like a true jest, the Oxfordshire garland, or, A hue-and-cry after a scarlet pair of breeches ... to the tune of the Highland laddie
Title
No jest like a true jest, the Oxfordshire garland, or, A hue-and-cry after a scarlet pair of breeches ... to the tune of the Highland laddie.
Published
[London? : s.n., 175-?]
Physical Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Local Notes
BEIN Z17 00465: Ms. note at bottom of sheet. Armorial bookplates: Scrope Berdmore, D.D. Coll. Mert. Custos, 1790; [unidentified]; Henry C. Compton. Autograph: F. Madan, bought 1913. "Catalogue of books & manuscripts ... of the late F.G. Hilton Price," ([6] p., 1911) and 2 bookseller's letters from John & Edward Bumpus concerning sale of volume to F. Madan tipped-in on front free endpaper. No. 19 of 41 works bound together with binder's title: Oxfordshire election.
Notes
Caption title.
Election song from Oxfordshire parliamentary election of 1754.
Verse - "You wanton wives that lead loose lives."
Variant and related titles
No jest like a true jest, the Oxfordshire garland
Hue-and-cry after a scarlet pair of breeches
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 16, 2007
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
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