Old age & death

Messenger of mortality, or, Life and death contrasted

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(1) Messenger of mortality, or, Life and death contrasted
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74892691
Description	First line reads: Death, Fair Lady, lay your costly robes aside. In three columns with a woodcut above.
Shelfmark	Crawford.EB.1996
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides Images > Pictures > Illustrations
Dates / events:	1820-1844 [Probable date printed] 1800-1900 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Ballads Woodcuts (prints) Mortality
Person / organisation:	Pitts, John, 1765-1844 [Printer]
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English ballads
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Description	Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
Attribution and copyright:	Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1800-1900 [Date printed]
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