Death of the Fox/I Saw Her at the Fancy Fair/The Thorn

1840. A Trio of Broadside Ballads [Broadside]. [Ballads]. [Great Britain]. Death of the Fox/I Saw Her at the Fancy Fair/The Thorn. [England, S.n., c.1840]. 9-3/4" x 7-1/2" triple-text broadside in two columns, backed onto 10-1/2" x 7-1/2" sheet, verse texts, each below headline, woodcut image of a fox hunter on horseback at head of left-hand column, woodcut image of three ladies in a parlor at head of right-hand column. Light browning, heavier browning to edges of upper and lower margins. $350. * This broadside has three ballad texts. The Death of the Fox describes a fox-hunt from the fox's point of view. A man is lovestruck at the sight of a "dear girl" in I Saw Her at the Fancy Fair. In The Thorn, a man, about to propose, vows to be true to his intended. He would never, he promises, stick her bosom with a thorn. No copies listed on Library Hub. OCLC locates a copy at UCLA. We located another copy at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Roud Folk Song Index 358, V12373, 13885.