Four Early Broadsides.

Description:

Four Early Broadsides. 1) Major Andre: written while he was a prisoner in the American Camp. Together with the Rose, Boston: Coverly, c. 1810-1814, fragmentary, mounted, with losses to foot, including imprint; 2) The Primrose Girl, London: I. Evans, Long Lane, Aug. 30th, 1793, no copies in ESTC, the sheet illustrated, image and text engraved, mounted, some losses to margins, 11 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.; The Doctor's Oil Jug, to the tune of the air, "The Farmer," 19th century, seemingly unrecorded, the song begins, "Rouse up, ye dull thinkers, and list to my song," woodcut illustrations at the top, stained and damaged, 11 3/4 x 9 in.; [and] a later version of An Elegiac Poem Composed on the Never to be Forgotten Terrible and Bloody Battle Fought at an Intrenchment on Bunker Hill, on wove paper, no imprint, toned and damaged, 17 x 10 3/4 in. (4)
Estimate $200-300


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