[BROADSIDE BALLAD] Chapter of Cheats. Or, the Roguery of all Trades.

A$500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Clerkenwell [London] : Printed and sold by J. V. Quick, 42 Bowling Green Lane, [c.1835]. Broadside, sheet size 245 x 200 mm, lithograph-printed on cheap paper; the text of the ballad is printed in two columns separated by a decorative border, with the title in bold, two woodcut illustrations, and publisher s imprint above; verso blank; fine condition. This English satirical ballad, which allocates a verse each to various professions lawyers, doctors, pawnbrokers, millers and grocers among them mocking them for their deceitful practices, was part of a sub-genre of ballads that proved extremely popular and circulated widely from around 1820 to the early 1840s, a period that roughly coincides with the later phase of the Industrial Revolution and the urbanisation of the rural poor. The theme of such ballads was a fairly universal one, meaning broadsides with songs of this type also had success in the North American market. The publisher of the present broadside, J. V. Quick, was active at his Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell address from around 1831. He later moved to premises in Seven Dials and Spitalfields. Roud Broadside Index 828 (for other variants but not this imprint) Not in the Bodleian Library (which holds six other broadsides with various versions of Chapter of Cheats )

• Binding: Hardcover

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