[Drop-head title:] A much admir'd love song call'd the banks of the nile.
Dublin.
P. Brereton, [s.d., c. 1867-75]
Dimensions 110 x 290 mm.
Single sheet, printed on one side only. Woodcut vignette to head. Numerous text errors. A trifle creased and browned.
A mid-nineteenth century ballad-sheet, issued by prolific Dublin-based peddler of street literature Peter Brereton, and, as with the majority of his output, rather crudely typeset. The ballad itself, a metrical atrocity, concerns an Irish soldier who, sent to war in Africa, yearns for his lover at home:
'On Nancy lovely that's a thing that cant [sic] be so,
For our Col ouel [sic] he gave order that uo [sic] woman he [sic] e [sic] can go We must forsake our own sweet hearts likewise our native soil
To fight the blacks and Negroes on the Banks of tee [sic] Nile'.
COPAC records copies at just three locations (BL, Manchester, and NLS); OCLC adds six further (Alberta, Delaware, Minneapolis, NLI, Texas, and Toronto).
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref: 32005
'On Nancy lovely that's a thing that cant [sic] be so,
For our Col ouel [sic] he gave order that uo [sic] woman he [sic] e [sic] can go We must forsake our own sweet hearts likewise our native soil
To fight the blacks and Negroes on the Banks of tee [sic] Nile'.
COPAC records copies at just three locations (BL, Manchester, and NLS); OCLC adds six further (Alberta, Delaware, Minneapolis, NLI, Texas, and Toronto).
