Lot 37
37
BROADSIDES -- The Dreadful Wreck of the Steamer, London, Emigrant Ship in the Bay of Biscay, London: H. Disley, [n.d.], 254 x 185mm., double column in verse, with woodcut vignette -- Condemnation of 7 Sailors for Murder on board the ship "Flowery Land", London: H. Disley, [n.d.], 254 x 185mm, double column in verse, with prose introduction explaining how the sailors had been indicted at the Old Bailey for murdering their captain and other members of the crew before scuttling the ship -- Maid and the Magpie/True Blue, [London: H. Disley, n.d.], 254 x 185mm., two poems each in one column, the former about a sailor's girl who flirts with a parson while he is away at Gibraltar but is betrayed by a magpie, the latter a patriotic poem about "Britannia ... riding out a gale,/In the sea of Eastern troubles, but she hasn't lost a sail", all 3 broadsheets c. 1860 (frail and slightly frayed at margins) -- A Terrible Disaster on the Thames, 600 lives lost. Saloon Boat "Prin
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BROADSIDES -- The Dreadful Wreck of the Steamer, London, Emigrant Ship in the Bay of Biscay, London: H. Disley, [n.d.], 254 x 185mm., double column in verse, with woodcut vignette -- Condemnation of 7 Sailors for Murder on board the ship "Flowery Land", London: H. Disley, [n.d.], 254 x 185mm, double column in verse, with prose introduction explaining how the sailors had been indicted at the Old Bailey for murdering their captain and other members of the crew before scuttling the ship -- Maid and the Magpie/True Blue, [London: H. Disley, n.d.], 254 x 185mm., two poems each in one column, the former about a sailor's girl who flirts with a parson while he is away at Gibraltar but is betrayed by a magpie, the latter a patriotic poem about "Britannia ... riding out a gale,/In the sea of Eastern troubles, but she hasn't lost a sail", all 3 broadsheets c. 1860 (frail and slightly frayed at margins) -- A Terrible Disaster on the Thames, 600 lives lost. Saloon Boat "Princess Alice" sunk, [no imprint, c. 1860], 251 x 191mm., 4pp. in prose and verse, with large woodcut on title (several clean tears). See illustration (part lot) (4)

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BROADSIDES -- The Dreadful Wreck of the Steamer, London, Emigrant Ship in the Bay of Biscay, London: H. Disley, [n.d.], 254 x 185mm., double column in verse, with woodcut vignette -- Condemnation of 7 Sailors for Murder on board the ship "Flowery Land", London: H. Disley, [n.d.], 254 x 185mm, double column in verse, with prose introduction explaining how the sailors had been indicted at the Old Bailey for murdering their captain and other members of the crew before scuttling the ship -- Maid and the Magpie/True Blue, [London: H. Disley, n.d.], 254 x 185mm., two poems each in one column, the former about a sailor's girl who flirts with a parson while he is away at Gibraltar but is betrayed by a magpie, the latter a patriotic poem about "Britannia ... riding out a gale,/In the sea of Eastern troubles, but she hasn't lost a sail", all 3 broadsheets c. 1860 (frail and slightly frayed at margins) -- A Terrible Disaster on the Thames, 600 lives lost. Saloon Boat "Princess Alice" sunk, [no imprint, c. 1860], 251 x 191mm., 4pp. in prose and verse, with large woodcut on title (several clean tears).
See illustration (part lot) (4)
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