NOTICE.
INTRODUCTION.
CONTENTS. DIVISION I. " Cocks " or " Catchpennies ," Street
A COLLECTION OF "COCKS," OR "CATCHPENNIES."
DIVISION I. A COLLECTION OF "COCKS," OR "CATCHPENNIES," STREET
BROADSIDES ON ROYALTY, POLITICAL LITANIES, and c.
DIVISION II. A COLLECTION OF BROADSIDES ON The Royal Family.
A COLLECTION OF "BALLADS ON A SUBJECT."
DIVISION III. A COLLECTION OF BALLADS ON A SUBJECT.
THE "GALLOWS" LITERATURE OF THE STREETS.
DIVISION IV. THE "GALLOWS" LITERATURE OF THE STREETS. Public
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: This e-text has been prepared in accordance with the Introduction’s explanation that the papers are presented verbatim et literatim, “word for word from copy”; all apparent errors are as printed in the original.
CURIOSITIES
OF
STREET LITERATURE:
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.
