[Rarebooks] fa: BROADSIDE BALLADS - Nautical, Galvanic, etc. - ca. 1795-1840

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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2 BROADSIDE STREET BALLADS ca 1795 King John and the Abbot + The Slighted Father
Two large, relatively early broadside ballads: KING JOHN, AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY [London: 1795?] and THE SLIGHTED FATHER, OR THE UNNATURAL SON JUSTLY RECLAIMED [London: 1796?]. Possibly by the same printer. Measuring ca. 30 x 19 cm and 30 x 22 cm. Tipped onto card, light soiling and creasing; the first with a small hole at center-right, the second with a short closed edge-tear at upper-right.
The first, inspired by King John's notorious penchant for confiscating church property, is an English folk song dating back to at least the 16th century. The second, on the ever-popular theme of cruel and ungrateful children, begins, "A Wealthy man of late, we hear, / Liv'd in the midst of devonshire..."


4 BROADSIDE BALLADS on NAUTICAL THEMES ca. 1840s - Life on the Ocean Waves, etc.
Four Victorian broadside street ballads having to do with sailors, the loves they left behind, storms at sea, etc. Various sizes (ca. 24 x 9 cm); ca. 1840s; woodcut illustrations.
A Life on the Ocean Wave. Liverpool: W. MCall, Printer… Shops & Hawkers supplied. Mounted at the corners on paper, with another broadside on the reverse: The Scaffold. [n.p.]. Dust-soiling. "Hark to the clinking of the hammers, / Hark to the driving of nails, / The men are erecting a gallow, / In one of her Majesty's gaols..."
Death of Parker. Preston: Harkness, Printer, 121 Church Street.
The Sailor Boy and his Faithful Mary. Preston: [Harkness,] Printed at 121 Church-street.
Lovely Nancy. [Manchester:] Swindells, Printer.


THE GALVANIC RING - STREET BALLAD BROADSIDE ca. 1845 re. GALVANISM
It cures the old, it cures the young,
It makes maids to dance and sing,
It makes lazy folks to go to work,
Does this Galvanic Ring.

The Galvanic Ring. Preston: Harkness, Printer, 121 Church Street, [ca. 1845]. One sheet, ca 25x10 cm; woodcut illustration with [later?] hand-coloring. A Victorian broadside extolling the virtues of this popular cure-all of the period. Perhaps intended ironically.

But this is the greatest cure of all, a man condemned to die,
Bought a Magic Ring, and saved his life, for the knot the[y] could not tie;
A man drove back the new police, another queered the judge,
And a thousand other things will prove the Galvanic Ring's no fudge.