IMAGE
[Collection of British broadsheet ballads printed by Henry Disley, 57 High Street, St Giles, London. 1860-1870s?]
- Date
- 1860 - 1830 - 1880
- By
- Disley, Henry, active 1860-1883
- Reference
- Eph-B-WEBSTER-Ballads-006/042
- Description
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.
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- No access restrictions
- Part of
- [Collection of ephemera, handbills, fliers, collected by Kenneth Athol Webster. 1800-1920] / [Collection of British broadsheet ballads. 1800-1870s?]
- Format
- 37 b&w art print(s), Ephemera, Letterpress works, Fliers (Printed matter), Letterpress, mainly stuck to sheets 255 x 190 mm.
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