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CHAPBOOK. The Most Diverting New Riddle-Book, with agreeable solutions, adorned with 59 beautiful cuts for the entertainment of youth. Dublin: printed by Bart. Corcoran, No. 23 Arran-Quay, where may be had the greatest assortment of ballads, penny-books, pictures (126) black and coloured, & c. & c. [cover title] n.d. [c.1785].
Half-sheet 8° (147 x 93mm). Collation: [A4] A few manuscript interpolations. Stock metal-cut (?) vignette on front cover, the seven following pages illustrated with "ladder" woodcuts running down the left-hand margins, picturing solutions to the riddles. Provenance: "Miss Isabelle Cobbatt's (?) Ballad."
Unrecorded. Not in ESTC. Some riddles contain double-entendres not solely intended "for the entertainment of youth".
Half-sheet 8° (147 x 93mm). Collation: [A4] A few manuscript interpolations. Stock metal-cut (?) vignette on front cover, the seven following pages illustrated with "ladder" woodcuts running down the left-hand margins, picturing solutions to the riddles. Provenance: "Miss Isabelle Cobbatt's (?) Ballad."
Unrecorded. Not in ESTC. Some riddles contain double-entendres not solely intended "for the entertainment of youth".