Standing Type in Dicey/Marshall Issues of The Berkshire Tragedy. (12th June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Atkinson, David
• Is Part Of: Library. Volume 21:Number 2(2020)
• Page Start: 216
• Page End: 225
• Publication Date: 2020-06-12
• Subjects: Bibliography -- Periodicals; Library science -- Periodicals; 010.5
• DOI: 10.1093/library/21.2.216
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0024-2160

Abstract

Abstract: This article considers six printings of the same ballad, The Berkshire Tragedy, by the same bookseller/printer, the Dicey/Marshall firm, which was the major producer of ballads in London throughout the mid-eighteenth-century. The results are rather startling and demonstrate that the ballad was kept in standing type through five different issues, in spite of a change from four-column to five-column format. These findings add to our knowledge of ballad production in the eighteenth century, and call into question the idea of ballads as ephemera.