[Broadside] A Love Song / The Cobler [sic]
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- Boston: s.i., 1824
Boston: s.i., 1824. Good. Boston? ca. 1824. Pictorial broadside (27x23cm.) adorned with two woodcut illustrations. Stock quite wrinkled and worn as though the leaf had been crumpled up and then ironed back out, smallish losses mid-leaf including one affecting woodcut illustration of the beautiful woman, another loss affecting text of the final two stanzas of "A Love Song." Additional loss at bottom margin of leaf not approaching text, crude tape repair to verso. A Good example only of this rare illustrated broadside.
Text includes three poems, "A Love Song," "The Cobler," and "The Beautiful Maid." A somewhat mismatched collection of poems, two of them about passionate romantic love, while "The Cobler" tells the tale of a cobbler whose short, grating wife runs through his legs and out of his life forever: "'Twould break my heart to lose my awl, / To lose my wife's a trifle."
Date of publication based on the example at the AAS, which is dated April 15, 1824, in a contemporary hand.
Text includes three poems, "A Love Song," "The Cobler," and "The Beautiful Maid." A somewhat mismatched collection of poems, two of them about passionate romantic love, while "The Cobler" tells the tale of a cobbler whose short, grating wife runs through his legs and out of his life forever: "'Twould break my heart to lose my awl, / To lose my wife's a trifle."
Date of publication based on the example at the AAS, which is dated April 15, 1824, in a contemporary hand.