[Collection of British broadsheet ballads printed by Henry Disley, 57 High Street, St Giles, London. 1860-1870s?]

Includes:

006. Old women's sayings

007. Strike of the journeymen tailors [1834?]

008. What shall we do for meat?

009. The funny divorce case [re Lady M and Charley]

010. Election of Dr Kenealy [Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, elected 1875]

011. The young woman's ABC

012. The great meeting in Hyde Park [1867]

013. Great meeting in Hyde Park on Monday, August 5th, 1867

014. Death of Louis Napoleon [at Chislehurst, 1873]

015. The dandy horse, or the wonderful velocipede [1860s]

016. Oxford and Cambridge boat race

017. The New Streets Act

018. The Litany for 1871

019. Holiday sprees

020. The new lights of America [Irishmen hoped to seek fortune in America, but are driven out]

021. Five and twenty shillings a week; we may be happy yet

022. The wedding of Louise and Johnny of Lorne [marriage of Lord Lorne to Princess Louise in 1871]

023. The opening of the Thames Embankment [July 1870]

024. The naughty wicked baker has got twelve months in quod

025. Farewell Moodie and Sankey [ca 1875]

026. John Bull's sentiments; or what I have been thinking [Captain Matthew Webb swims the English Channel; the 'Mistletoe' is wrecked. 1875]

027. The great Shah of Persia [1873?]

028. Have you seen the Shah? [1873?]

029. The fight for the championship; Wormald and victory! [Joe Wormald vs Andrew Marsden, 1866]

030. Arrival of the Duchess of Edinburgh [Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh marries Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, 23 January 1874]

031. Captain Jinks's dream; a conversation on the coming elections between Bill Gladstone and Ben Dizzy, written by John Embleton, author of "The political litany on the Irish Church question, &c" [William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli, 1874]

032. Duke of Edinboro's marriage [Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh marries Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, 23 January 1874]

033. A political thanksgiving for the great and glorious victory gained by the Liberals and the complete deafeat of the Tories!! [1874]

034. Freedom and reform [pro Gladstone, Beales and Bright]

035. An interesting picture of drunkennness

036. Great fight between Sayers & Heenan for the championship [1860, John C Heenan and Thomas Sayers, boxers]

037. Unlucky Madame Rachael [?charlatan beautician, imprisoned 1869-1872?]

038. The lamentation of a naughty colonel

039. Terrible accident on the ice in Regent's Park, and loss of 40 lives [1867]

040. The naughty lord and the gay young lady. Damages 10,000 pounds [last line uses the expression Lord December and Lady May to describe age difference]

041. The working man's rights [pro Gladstone and Bright, late 1860s?]

042. The funny he-she ladies [transvestites in Regent Square, Paddington, Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, Wakefield Street, investigated by Detective Chamberlain]

Quantity: 37 b&w art print(s).

Physical Description: Letterpress, mainly stuck to sheets 255 x 190 mm.

Provenance: From the collection of Kenneth Athol Webster.