Love in a tub; or,--The merchant outwitted by the vintner.
Subtitle: An excellent old song. Shewing--how a young vintner in London, fell in love with a rich winemerchant's daughter, and how they fun'd the old man ..
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49260
Publisher: Sold [by Samuel and Ebenezer Hall?] at the printing office in Salem: where may be had (by the groce, dozen, or single) the following other ballads ...
Published: 1772
Place of publication: [Salem, Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Deception in literature; Love -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes
Notes: Verse in twenty-one stanzas; first line: Let every one who to mirth is inclin'd

The imprint is the same as one used occasionally by Samuel and Ebenezer Hall in 1772 and 1773; cf. Tapley, Harriet S. Salem imprints, 1768-1825, 1927, p. 311-312

Text in two columns; printed area measures 29.7 x 17.9 cm

Booksellers' advertisement, listing fifteen ballad titles, appears within ornamental border below second column

Not in Evans or Bristol

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49260)