The old man and young wife
Subtitle: together with "Money makes the mare go."
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Other titles: Money makes the mare go; London servant maiden with wit and beauty bright; Traveller stopt at a widow's gate; Traveller stopped at a widow's gate
Notes: Two poems.

Money makes the mare go, attributed to George Colman, Jr. in 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.

American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. III, no. 15, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 24.5 x 22.0 cm.

Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.

Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 192