‘I Was Taught to Expect Wit, Wisdom and Gold’
[OLD MAID.]
Six lithograph plates with verses below: ‘When I was a girl of eighteen years old ...’. c. 1835?
Folio, c. 390 x 280 mm, unpaginated, no title-page, six unsigned black and white lithographs; a little creasing, small tear (without loss) to outer edge of third plate; very good, untrimmed; stitched with a pink silk ribbon, with the original drab front wrapper; creased and with a few chips to edges.
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Six lithograph plates with verses below: ‘When I was a girl of eighteen years old ...’.
Apparently unrecorded – an attractive illustrated edition of a popular slip-ballad, here reduced to eight verses of the original thirteen.
When I was a girl of eighteen years old,
I was scornful as scornful could be;
I was taught to expect wit, wisdom and gold,
And nothing else would do for me ...
The flamboyant fashions on display here, with ballooning leg-of-mutton sleeves and heavily-decorated headwear, suggest a date in the mid-1830s.