Soldiers & sailors

Powder monkey Peter

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English ballads > Soldiers & sailors > Powder monkey Peter

(1) Powder monkey Peter
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74891809
Description	First line reads: Born aboard a man of war. In one column with a woodcut above the title. In verse and prose.
Shelfmark	Crawford.EB.1692
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides Images > Pictures > Illustrations
Dates / events:	1802-1809 [Probable date printed] 1800-1900 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Sailors Gunpowder Ballads Woodcuts (prints)
Person / organisation:	Jennings, J. (Printer) [Printer]
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English ballads
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Description	Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
Attribution and copyright:	Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1800-1900 [Date printed]
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