The Peace Egg Book: an Anglo-Irish chapbook connection discovered - Research article: focus on traditional drama

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British Library. RB23a 17736(2). 8 pp. 165 x 101 mm. 6 illus. [Red and green hand coloured wash on the border.]

2: THE/PEACE EGG;/OR,/St. George's/ANNUAL PLAY,/FOR THE/AMUSEMENT OF YOUTH./PRESTON:/ PRINTED BY J. HARKNESS, 121, CHURCH STREET.

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E.C. Cawte Collection [Formerly in the Alex Helm Collection]. 8 pp. 167 x 106 mm. 6 illus. [Hand coloured cover in yellow, black, red, green and brown.]

Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, London Acc. No. P294. 8 pp. 168 x 102 mm. 6 illus. Cambridge University Library, Cat. No. XIX. 60.98c. 8 pp. 165 x 98 mm. 6 illus. [Hand coloured cover.]

3: THE/PEACE EGG,/OR,/St. George'S/ANNUAL PLAY,/FOR THE/AMUSEMENT OF YOUTH./PRESTON:/ PRINTED BY J. HARKNESS, 121, CHURCH STREET.

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Harris Public Library, Preston, p. 822. Pamphlets. 8 pp. 170 x 105 mm. 6 illus.

4: THE/PEACE EGG,/OR,/St. George'S/ANNUAL PLAY/FOR THE/AMUSEMENT OF YOUTH./PRESTON:/PRINTED BY J. HARKNESS, 31, CHURCH STREET.

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Toronto Public Library, Osbourne Collection of Children's Books. 8 pp. 170 x 96 mm. 6 illus.

Opie R115, Opie Collection, [Department of Rare Books], Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. 8 pp. 169 x 106 mm. 6 illus.

National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield. Long Item No. 214., [8 pp.?] c. 152 x 105 mm. [6 illus.?] [This item is a collation of handwritten text and cut up chapbook texts and illustrations.]

5: THE/PEACE EGG,/OR,/St. George'S/ANNUAL PLAY,/FOR THE/AMUSEMENT OF YOUTH./PRINTED BY J. HARKNESS [REST OF IMPRINT REMOVED]

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Yorkshire Archaeological Society Library, Cat. No. 53U5. 8 pp. 172 x 107 mm. 6 illus.

Leslie Shepard Collection (first copy). 8 pp. 170 x 105 mm. 6 illus. [Printed on blue tinted paper.]

Leslie Shepard Collection (second copy). 8 pp. 170 x 105 mm. 6 illus. [Cover title lettering, border and imprint are in faint red type.]

Oldham Library, Art Gallery and Museum. 8 pp. 173 x 108 mm. 6 illus. [Front cover is colour washed in red on the printer's border and over part of the door.]

Manchester Public Library, W. E. A. Axon Collection of Chapbooks. BR.398.5 C19. Item 11.8 pp. 175 x 103 mm. 6 illus.

Gerald Tyler Collection, incorporating material from Mrs. Wm. M. Mason. National Centre for English Cultural Traditions, University of Sheffield. Long Item File 214. 8 pp. 168 x 110 mm. 6 illus.

Halifax Public Library, Horsfall Turner Collection, P398/R4504. [Incomplete: pages 1, 2, 7 and 8 only.] 170 x 105 mm. [? Illus]. [Colour washed in red on front page borders.]

Opie R116, Opie Collection, [Department of Rare Books], Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. 8 pp. 174 x 109 mm. 6 illus.

Eddie Cass Collection. 8 pp. 176 x 111 mm. 6 illus. [Front cover is colour washed in red on the printer's border and over part of the door.]

Birmingham University Library, ML Special Collection. Selbourne Pamphlets PZ 6.P42. 8 pp. 180 x 110 mm. 6 illus. Original is an uncut sheet 340 mm x 220mm. [Front cover is part colour washed in red.]