Heenan, the bold Benicia boy.

Accession number: 
PML 136667.86
Published: 
[Dublin? : s.n., 1859?]
Description: 
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 38 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Dated from internal evidence - the text of the ballad is concerned with the forthcoming match between Heenan and Sayers fought at Farnborough on Tuesday 17 April 1860.
Printed in a single column with a crude cut of a boxer above the title and an illustration of a man pursuing a naked boy with a cane at foot of sheet.
Item mounted onto a leaf from an album of collected song sheets and broadsides (PML 136667) the individual folios disbound and housed in two boxes.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Department: