[Rarebooks] fa: BROADSIDE BALLADS ca 1802-1870

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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A NIGHT IN A LONDON WORKHOUSE. London: Disley, Printer, 57 High-street, St. Giles, [ca. 1870]. Printed broadside, measuring 250 x 185 mm (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in). Some light spotting and creasing, else clean and sound. Bodleian no. Harding B 13(154). An original antique broadside, not a reproduction.
A colorful description of the daily/nightly routine of a mid-Victorian London workhouse (bathwater that "looks like dirty mutton broth," etc.), complete with street slang and suitably awkward metre. Henry Disley had worked for the famous broadside and ballad publisher James Catnatch before setting up his own printing shop in St. Giles, the hub of the broadside trade in the nineteenth century. Described as "the pre-eminent printer of murder broadsides," Disley flourished there from 1860-1878,  but as this ballad was reprinted in Curiosities of Street Literature in 1871, the original must have appeared sometime before that year.

GARIBALDI'S FAREWELL TO ENGLAND. Garibaldi's Farewell to England. [London?: n.p., n.d., but circa 1864.] Printed broadside measuring 258 x 187 mm (ca. 10 x 7 1/2 in). Early stains/soiling to the right edge, scattered light spots, small closed tear to the upper edge. An original antique broadside, not a reproduction.
A broadside ballad commemorating the triumphal visit of Giuseppe Garibaldi to England in 1864. The British treated the general as something of a Victorian-era rock star, as evidenced by the numerous Garibaldi-induced fads and fashions cited in the song: Garibaldi sprats and crabs, Garibaldi pork-pie hats, trousers, boots and bustles, "And blooming girls with rings and curls, / Whose minds are now bewilderin', / Will have you'll find, in nine months time, / Lots of Garibaldi children." Uncommon: not in Bodleian Broadside Ballads.

Three REGENCY-ERA POLITICAL BROADSIDE BALLADS 1802-1830
SONG. Coventry: Printed by J. Turner, Bookseller and Stationer, High-Street, [1802]. Printed broadside on laid paper, measuring 313 x 123 mm (ca. 12 1/4 x 5 in). Light creases and spotting, small hole to upper-right corner, short closed tear to lower edge, expert paper repair to verso. A bit of ephemera from the notorious Coventry balloting of 1802, a parliamentary election enlivened by riots, bribery and charges of corruption. The song sides with the more radical Blue faction supporting William Wilberforce Bird and Peter Moore against rival candidates Francis Barlow and Nathaniel Jefferys. The latter, the Prince of Wales’s jeweler, is associated in the ballad with Judge Jeffery, "The Father of the Star Chamber, or ancient Bastile, the great stain of English Liberty." In the event, Bird and Moore lost the election, but Jefferys was unseated a year later "for want of a proper qualification."
HODGSON FOR EVER! A New Song. Newcastle: J. Clarke, Printer [ca. 1830]. Measuring 282 x 220 mm (ca. 11 x 8 3/4 in); some creases, chipping to the edges, short tear along center crease, light toning and spotting, ink comment ("Not one of the Dent Hodgsons") in upper margin. [WITH] Hodgson for Ever! A New Song, by William Robinson, Poet. Newcastle: T. Kay, Printer, Castle-street [ca. 1830]. Measuring 210 x 105 mm (ca. 8 1/2 x 4 1/4 in); mild toning, mounted on early backing paper. Two different songs with the same title, from two different publishers, both supporting the Liberal candidate John Hodges against the sitting Whig Sir Matthew White Ridley and the Tory Cuthbert Ellison in the general election of 1830. The latter song is of particular interest as much of it is written in the local "Geordie" dialect: "Let M— and C— gan to the deel, / For them we dina care, / Then we will shout loud as we can— / Hodgson, for evermare! / Up an' ware them a', &c."

GOIN' OBER DE MOUNTAIN. Preston [U.K.]: John Hawkins, Printer, [circa 1840s]. Broadside ballad measuring 250 x 90 mm (ca. 9 7/8 x 3 5/8 in); woodcut illustration. A variant of this unenlightened, early nineteenth-century "coon" song whose popularity is attested to by the fact that here it is being reprinted in Lancashire, England, about as far away from "ole Virginny" as one can imagine. Mild browning to the edges, mounted on early backing paper. 

SEVEN VICTORIAN BROADSIDE BALLADS.
Seven nineteenth-century broadside ballads; various sizes: smallest measuring 215 x 73 mm (ca. 8 1/2 x 3 in), largest measuring 257 x 90 mm (ca. 10 x 3 5/8 in); mild toning, occasional light creasing, other defects as noted. 
The Quaker. Liverpool: Kiernan, Printer. Woodcut illustration.
Bonny Light Horseman. [Manchester:] Swindells, Printer. Woodcut illustration. Chip torn from top margin, browning to lower edge.
Sandy the Waterloo Man. Norwich: Printed by Lane and Co. Bridewell Alley, St. Andrew's. Woodcut illustration.
Duncan Campbell. Preston: Harkness, Printer, 121 Church Street. Woodcut illustration. Soiling to the edges.
Harvest Hymn. Norwich: Printed by Lane and Co. Bridewell-Alley.
Corin's Profession; or, The Song of Constancy. Norwich: Printed and Sold by Lane & Walker, St. Andrew's.
Cherry Cheek Patty. Norwich: Printed and Sold by Lane & Walker, St. Andrew's.