Crude-Ditties

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In quarter red leather with grey boards, titles in black ink with border, corners very lightly bumped. No title to spine. Internally, yellow endpapers, title page with woodcut, 34 pp, with 24 rather close to the bone ditties! many on fellow notables! Published anonymously but Philip Yorke. (COPAC list copies of 1795, 1798 as well as this, the 1802) (Libri Walliae 5637) Poem Titles are: Journey to Maryport JUne 1778. To Colonel Myddelton, of Gwaynynog 1782. Garthewin. Prologue to Henry the Fifth 1786. With a Hard Cottenham Cheese 1791. To Mrs H with a load of bricks and a Goose 1791. Mrs H's Answer to the foregoing. A New Brick Porch. To a Lady with some Snuff. Abergele. The Puppy turn'd Cat, and the Cat, return'd Puppy a Mountain Tale. A Sonnet. Old W..te. Inscription. A Welsh Lady. An Extempore. On a Hatter. Descriptions several portraits John Henshaw 1791. John Nicholas 1791. William Williams 1793. A Black. Jane Ebbrell 1793. Thomas Jones. Edward Prince 1792. etc. YORKE , PHILIP, published variously and on succeeding to the estate he showed himself an enlightened landlord, using his income of £7,000 a year in embellishment of hall and grounds, purchase of adjoining properties, mineral development, and scientific farming.