Unfortunate Miss Bailey
Subtitle: together with The Bailiff, an excellent parody upon unfortunate Miss Bailey
Publisher: Reproduced in the Isaiah Thomas printing office at Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts, from the original in the American Antiquarian Society.
Published: 1950
Place of publication: Sturbridge, Mass.
Language: eng
Other titles: Bailiff, a parody on Miss Bailey
Notes: Facsimile of a 19th century broadside originally printed in Boston, Mass., between 1810 and 1814. (Cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, no. 281.)

Date of imprint based on Brown University copy.

Two songs in four and six stanzas of verse, printed in two columns.

Unfortunate Miss Bailey, verses begin : A captain bold, in Halifax.

The Bailiff, a parody on Miss Bailey, verses begin : A player bold in Staffordshire.

Line of type ornaments at end of text.

Unfortunate Miss Bailey, attributed to George Colman. (Cf. Philbrick, Thomas L. "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258.