The delights of the bottle, or, The town-gallants declaration for women and wine : being a description of a town-bred gentleman, with all his intregues, pleasure, company, humor, and conversation / To a most admirable new tune, every where much in request.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692.

Series:

Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking songs--Texts--Early works to 1800.

Drinking songs.

Broadsides--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Broadsides.

England--London.

Genre:

Ballads -- England -- 17th century.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 1/2⁰

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, and R. Burton, and are to be sold at their shops in West-Smith-field, [1675]

Summary:

A ballad in praise of alcohol.

Notes:

"The first two stanzas were written originally by Thomas Shadwell for his opera Psyche, in 1675"--NUC pre-1956; Wing gives him as author, as well.

Place and date of publication from NUC pre-1956 imprints, and Wing.

Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set reel 3, Douce Ballads 1[106], appears to be a variant setting with punctuation and spelling differences; also this setting has no ornamental border; also, left margin and foot are cropped, with loss of text and imprint; first line of title has faded letters.

Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Microfilm. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Publications ; Oxford, England : Bodleian Photographic Service. 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S2841A

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCR14042.

OCLC:

63661388