c.1700 Old Song in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads IV (1897) 247: Go home, ye Fop [...] And for half a Crown a Doxey get, But seek no more a partridge here .at partridge, n.
1876 ‘My Wife She Wasn’t The Ticket ’ Jolly Old Boys Comic Song Book 335: [song title].at not the ticket (adj.) under ticket, n.1