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[GODWIN, William (1756-1836?) or HOLLCROFT, Thomas (? -?). Gaffer Gray; or, the misfortunes of poverty: a Christmas ditty...London: printed for M. J. Godwin...1816 [cover title].
16° (119 x 90mm). Initial plate with imprint: printed for Tho. Hodgkins, Hanway Street, May 26. 1806, 3 pages of text, 12 pages of illustrations with 4-line stanza below, all printed on one side of the sheet. Engraved throughout, uncoloured, (some offsetting). Side stitched in original grey-brown printed wrapper, advertisements on lower cover. Provenance: Doheny (note from the bookseller Maxwell Hunley laid in). A & M no.41.
A late binding-up of the original sheets, which had been published in 1806 under the name of the Godwins' manager. Authorship is uncertain.
16° (119 x 90mm). Initial plate with imprint: printed for Tho. Hodgkins, Hanway Street, May 26. 1806, 3 pages of text, 12 pages of illustrations with 4-line stanza below, all printed on one side of the sheet. Engraved throughout, uncoloured, (some offsetting). Side stitched in original grey-brown printed wrapper, advertisements on lower cover. Provenance: Doheny (note from the bookseller Maxwell Hunley laid in). A & M no.41.
A late binding-up of the original sheets, which had been published in 1806 under the name of the Godwins' manager. Authorship is uncertain.