The Swiss maid [etc.].

Date:
[between 1700 and 1799?]
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Description

Broadside featuring 4 poems in 2 columns of type with a woodcut at the head of each one. The first showing the Swiss maid, cattle and a cottage behind her. The other a romantic couple meeting in front of a barn, pigeons to one side, a sailing boat to the other. The poems are called: The Swiss maid, Rise gentle moon, Meet me by moonlight and Human mortality. Human mortality is about the ephemeral nature of human life ("Tobacco... grows green at morn, is cut down at eve") couched in rather npleasant tobacco smoking imagery. Printed by Pitts, printer, wholesale toy and marble warehouse, 6 Great saint Andrews Street, Seven Dials, London.

Publication/Creation

[London] : Pitts, [between 1700 and 1799?]

Physical description

1 broadside : illustrations ; 28 cm

References note

ESTC N493173

Contents

Swiss maid,.-- Rise gentle moon.-- Meet me by moonlight.-- Human mortality.

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