Broadsides
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Broadside entitled "To Jenny Lind: A New Song Suited to the Times", September 1847
This is an apparently unrecorded mid-19th-century broadside ballad celebrating the talents of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind (1820-1887). A contemporary manuscript note indicates that the broadside was published in Perth in September 1847.
Sermon as component of A proclamation for a public thanksgiving, 1814
Folio. Broadside. Uncut, with some loss to edges. Folded, with some marking and marginal tears. Inscribed at head in 19th century hand, 'Thanksgiving Peace 1814 July' and at foot 'Public worship on Thursday will begin at the usual hour...'.
On verso, the broadside bears a lengthy manuscript copy of a contemporary sermon on 'the great and public blessing of peace' beginning with the 126th Psalm and occupying the entire verso in four columns.
Small broadside - an ordinance of the Baillies in Edinburgh
This broadside is addressed toEdinburghand is dated 29 November 1720. The name Jo. Wightman, Baillie, J.P. appears at the bottom of the ordinance. There is a woodcut initial at the beginning of the text.
Two broadsides advertising exhibitions at the Eidephusicon, Leicester Square, London, [1825?], [1837?]
Two broadsides advertising exhibitions of "animated scenery" at the Eidephusicon, Leicester Square, London. Each includes an advertisement for a view of Loch Leven representing the escape of Mary Queen of Scots from Castle Lochleven, as described in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Abbot (1820).