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CURIOSITIES
OF
STREET LITERATURE:
LONG-SONG SELLER.
(From a Daguerreotype by Beard.)
CURIOSITIES
OF
STREET LITERATURE:
COMPRISING
“COCKS,” OR “CATCHPENNIES,”
A LARGE AND CURIOUS ASSORTMENT OF
STREET-DROLLERIES, SQUIBS, HISTORIES, COMIC TALES IN PROSE AND VERSE,
Broadsides on the Royal Family,
POLITICAL LITANIES, DIALOGUES, CATECHISMS, ACTS OF PARLIAMENT,
STREET POLITICAL PAPERS,
A VARIETY OF “BALLADS ON A SUBJECT,”
DYING SPEECHES AND CONFESSIONS.
TO WHICH IS ATTACHED THE ALL-IMPORTANT AND NECESSARY
AFFECTIONATE COPY OF VERSES,
AS
“What hast here? ballads? I love a ballad in print, or a life; for then we are sure they are true.”—Shakespeare.
“There’s nothing beats a stunning good murder, after all.”—Experience of a Running Patterer.
LONDON:
REEVES AND TURNER,
196, STRAND.
1871.
NOTICE.
The “Execution Paper” of JohnGregson, for the Murder of his Wife, atLiverpool—page 235 of Contents—is CANCELLED,and Eight Pages, “The Heroesof the Guillotine,” supplied instead.
196, Strand, December 30th, 1870.
CURIOSITIES
OF
STREET LITERATURE.
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