THE JURY OF OLD WOMEN; / OR, / THE TRIAL OF A YOUNG GIRL'S CON- /SCIENCE.; [followed by 10 verses of poetry, the first nine of four lines each, the final verse with six lines].

[London?]: np, nd [ca. 1780-1825?]. Broadside verse printed on laid paper, 15 x 5 1/8 inches, 10 stanzas. At the head of the broadside is a small woodcut (2 1/2 x 1 7/8 inches) picturing a man and woman in 18th-century dress; below the text is a second small woodcut (1 x 1 1/8 inches) picturing a shoe and other domestic items. The verse is full of the laments of a newly married young woman who is worried she "marry'd a man and he's but half a blade." Some unconventional advice from her mother and an old woman results in the husband's display of his "sufficient and able" self before a jury of old women. Apparently not recorded in OCLC or ESTC. Some shallow chipping at edges, faint old tidelines and scattered foxing, a few typographical errors, including one or two letters printed upside down, but overall an attractive copy. Item #62771

The small woodcut at the head of the broadside was also used to illustrate the chapbook "The History of that celebrated Lady Ally Croaker," printed and sold at the London and Middlesex Printing Office, No. 81, Shoe Lane, Holborn, 1780. The printer and bookseller Thomas Sabine and his son were known to have had their business at this address from 1780 - 1825.

Price: $1,500.00