An Answer to Polly Peachum's ballad. The following lines being sent to the author as an answer to the foregoing ballad, he to shew what he publishd was not done out of malice to Polly Peachum, has annex'd them to this edition, having so much value for the female sex as to give them fair play to a fair woman

People / Organizations

• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed by")

Imprint

London : Printed by A. Moore near St. Pauls, [1728]

Publication year

1728

ESTC No.

T4400

Grub Street ID

272487

Description

1 sheet ; 1/2°.

Note

"Pray Sir, who are you," - A reprint of the reply included in 'A new ballad, inscrib'd to Polly Peachum' London, [1728], which satirized Lavinia Fenton's lovers

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious.

Uncontrolled note

See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43