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[003435] [Jacobite Songs]. Adventures of Prince Charles and a Review of the Rebellion in 1745 with the Illustrative Jacobite Songs. London: W.S. Johnson [Printer], First Edition. Folio. Unbound. Broadside. Good. Single sided printed broadside, approximately 140mm x 345mm in size, n.d. but probably 1843.

Lightly browned, slightly creased, otherwise clean.

Advertising broadside for an evening of Jacobite songs, with an accompanying pianoforte, at the Music Hall, in Store Street, Bedford Square, London. The foot of the broadside advertises Wilson’s edition of ‘The Songs of Scotland’ (published in 1842 according to Oxford in JISC), the universal calendar notes that the 1st of May was on a Monday in 1843.

The printer was W.[illiam] S.[pencer] Johnson, who began trading in 1835 in Nassau Street, Soho, and by 1846 had moved to St. Martin’s Lane (see BBTI)