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Heenan's chalenge [sic] to Mace.

Accession number
PML 136667.087
Published
Dublin : John F. Nugent, & Co., [1861?]
Credit line
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.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (wood engraving) ; 42 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department