[Drop-head title:] Jack's Fidelity.
London.
Printed and sold by Jennings, [s.d., c. 1810]
Dimensions 100 x 210 mm.
Single sheet, printed on one side only. Woodcut vignette to head. A trifle creased, evidence of earlier mounting to verso.
A rare survival of an early nineteenth-century slip sheet issue of Charles Dibdin's (1745-1814) song on the theme of a sailor with 'a wife in each port' who ultimately resolves to resist their advances having sworn fidelity to his 'Poll' at home.
The publishing house of John Jennings (fl.1782-1819) of Water Lane, Fleet Street was responsible for a prodigious output of cheap, popular printing in the first half of the nineteenth-century. Single song sheets such as the one present were available from as little as one half-penny, and read by an increasingly literate society.
OCLC and COPAC together locate a single copy at NLS.
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref: 32004
The publishing house of John Jennings (fl.1782-1819) of Water Lane, Fleet Street was responsible for a prodigious output of cheap, popular printing in the first half of the nineteenth-century. Single song sheets such as the one present were available from as little as one half-penny, and read by an increasingly literate society.
OCLC and COPAC together locate a single copy at NLS.
