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THE FORDINGBRIDGE HUNT.

THE FORDINGBRIDGE HUNT.

Publication details: Printed and sold by J. Pitts, 14. Great St. Andew Street seven dials [sic],[c. 1790],

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Bookseller Notes

A humourous ballad ridiculing some Fordingbridgers who were duped in to 'hunting' some hares which were only stuffed exemplars. The cant name for Fordingbridgers we learn is 'Blue-skins'. We have not located any other broadside printing of this ballad, or indeed this one. The text appeared in The Sporting Magazine as 'The Hare Hunters' in November 1809, but the imprint here makes this earlier (note the printer's carelessness with his own address).On the verso of the album leaf are 3 engravings of fashionable figures, apparently taken from the Pocket Book, For the Year 1773.

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[c. 1790],

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