Front matter
Reading edition
LONG-SONG SELLER.
(From a Daguerreotype by Beard.)
“Three yards a penny! Three yards a penny! Beautiful songs! Newest songs! Popular songs! Three yards a penny! Songs, songs, songs!”
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
“Come, all you feeling-hearted Christians, wherever you may be, Attention give to these few lines, and listen unto me; It’s of this cruel murder, to you I will unfold, The bare recital of the same will make your blood run cold.”
“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.