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chapbooks, english1
cockfighting1
conduct of life1
conversion1

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Cowper, William1
Cowper, William (1731-1800)1
Hazlem, Robert, D. 17791
Ryley, John1
Whittington, Richard, 1357?-14231

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The house that Jack built : to which is added some account of Jack Jingle, showing by what means he acquired his learning, and in consequence thereof got rich, and built himself house : Adorned with cuts

[ca.1823]

Frontispiece and last leaf are mounted on inside of covers. Publication date based on watermark dated 1821 in another copy. Space left in title at end of justified line where "a" (before "house") ...

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The remarkable story and sudden death of a cock-fighter who died on the pit hill as he was about to descend into a coal-pit : Together with a copy of verses upon the occasion, by the famous poet, William Cowper, Esq

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

[ca. 1810]

Title vignette. Cowper's poem (1st line: Where Humber pours its rich commercial stream) first published in The Arminian Magazine, Jan. 1783 (p. 51-53) under title: A tale founded on a fact. "The f...

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