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Heenan, the bold Benicia boy.

Accession number
PML 136667.86
Published
[Dublin? : s.n., 1859?]
Credit line
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.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 38 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department