> The ending of the entry -- Asbbeel, 133-7; B.A. 384. -- looks like a
> library classification number, or numbers, but the question is, Which
> library (or libraries)? I'll (obviously) try to chase this further, and
> if I click, let everyone know.
With help from Patrick McManus and especially the JWalker, I can now expand
"Asbbeel, 133-7".
The reference is to Henry Ashbee?, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, p. 133.
I found a raw OCR of this, which almost makes sense.
Linked from:
http://www.immortalia.com/html/bibliography/1877-85-ashbee-bibliography/index.htm
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[Dans "Les Bijoux du Petit Neveu de l'Arétin" les gravures
sont ce qu'il y a de mieux. Le texte est peu élégant et très
dévergondé.]*
Cfee astotoot'ö Caïunet af Cftoúe ê>mtgö; A beautiful,
bothering, laughter, provoking, collection of spiflicating,
flabbergasting smutty ditties, now first printed, among
which will be found the:-Great Plenipotentiary!! A
most outrageously good amatory stave. Oh, Miss Tabitha
Ticklecock ! ! ! A slashing smutty ballad. The Magical
Carrot or the Parsley Bed Katty O'More, or the Root !
My Mot's in the Lock ! two famous flash parodies. Roger
in all its Glory ! ! ! The Smutty Billy Black ! A truly
delicious chaunt. The Lost Cow ! ! ! Or, the Bulling
Match under the Tree. The Glass Eye ! A right down
regular rummy ditty, never before printed The Soft
Fart ! A capital flash stave. Peggy and the Ball Cock ;
or thawing the Water Works! Beetroots! Beetroots!
My Woman is a Rummy Whore ! Going a Nesting !
The Essence of Lanky^Doodle! ! ! The Pego Club!
The Height of Impudence, or the T-d & the Muffin
An out-and-out ditty. The Invisible Tool ! The Randy
Dinner! The Tremendous Tail! The Butcher's Boy
with a Mot is Gone, &c, &c.
Small 8vo. ; pp. 48 (?) ; the verso of the title page gives us
"W. West, Printer, 57, Wych Street, Strand."
* See the introduction.
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Which leaves B.A. 384, which I ought to be able to decode by going back to
the main site.
Still no nearer getting my paws on a copy, but.
Robin
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