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[003678] [Broadside Ballad] A Dialogue Between W. And K., Previous to a Sale By Auction, of an Estate, at Swanbourne, on March 29th, 1877. No Place: No Publisher, 1877. First Edition. Folio. Unbound. Broadside. Good. Single sided printed ballad, approximately 125mm x 315mm in size

Lightly foxed, creased from old folds, couple of minor nicks to edges at folds, but fairly bright

A dialogue between W. and K. about a land sale, where W. notes that K. has enough money to buy the land over the local lord. K. states that W. couldn’t even afford the deposit and bemoans Radicals assailing his property rights. W. then advises K. that Death is at hand, and he would do better to retire and marry a widow, rather than a young maid, as “It may be that the Lass for lucre’s sake, To the old Man may in appearance take, But youth and beauty ’tis a shame to see, Grafted upon an old and sapless tree”

Swanbourne is in Buckinghamshire

Broadside Ballads Online: BOD628