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Description

Title: The address of the newsman to his customers, 1831
Contributor: Cowell, Joseph, active 1803-1853, printer.
Published / Created: [1831]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed by J. Cowell, 22, Terrace, Pimlico
Description: Caption title.
Lewis Walpole Library copy has final digit "1" in "1831" scored through in ink and a manuscript "2" added in its place.
A flyer printed to elicit charity from customers for newspaper boys and men at Christmas and New Year.
Text printed in two columns within Greek key pattern border. Thee twelve numbered stanzas of verse describe the life of a newsman in mock heroic terms. The lines begin by way of an apology: Kind sirs! I hope you will excuse this tribute of a newsman’s muse ...
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Provenance: Marlborough Rare Books; October 2024.
Extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 28 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: File 66 831 Ad242

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Poetry
Poems
Broadsides
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): England
London
Subject (Topic): Newspaper agents
Subjects: Newspaper agents > England > London > Poetry
19th century

Access And Usage Rights

Access: Public

Identifiers

Catalog Record: 17408830
Object ID (OID): 33240955

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