Heenan's chalenge [sic] to Mace.

Accession number: 
PML 136667.087
Published: 
Dublin : John F. Nugent, & Co., [1861?]
Description: 
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (wood engraving) ; 42 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Dated from references to Jem Mace's 1861 defeat of Sam Hurst, and from contemporary published reports that Heenan had publicly challenged Mace which circulated later that year.
Printed in a single column a cut of two men boxing at head 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.
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