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Chapbooks, English - Early works to 1800

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    Tom Thumb's folio; or, a new penny play-thing for little giants. To which is prefixed, an abstract of the life of Mr. Thumb, And An Historical Account of the Wonderful Deeds he performed. Together with Some Anecdotes respecting Grumbo the Great Giant.

    | Date: 1786
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    Joe Miller's jests. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, and most pleasant short stories in the English Language. The greater Part of which are taken from the mouth of that facetious gentleman whose name they bear.

    | Date: [1770?]
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    The whole life, and conversation, birth and parentage, and education of Richard Mosely, aged about sixteen years old, for the murther of his own grandmother Mary Payton, in the parish of Sedgely in Staffordshire. ... Who was executed ... on Saturday the 12th April. Together with his tryal ... held at Stafford, on Thursday and Friday, the 3d and 4th of ... April, 1707. ...

    | Date: 1707]
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    Tom Long, the carrier.

    | Date: [1780?]
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    A strange and wonderful relation of the old woman That was drowned at Ratcliff-Highway, a fortnight ago. Whereunto is added the old woman's legacies, a little before her death. Part the second.

    | Date: [1780?]
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