(3) Page 3 - Battle of Waterloo - Street literature about Napoleon's Wars

Download files

Individual page:

Thumbnail gallery: Grid view | List view

Set display mode to: Universal Viewer | Mirador | Large image | Transcription

Images and transcriptions on this page, including medium image downloads, may be used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence unless otherwise stated.

(3) Page 3

Permanent URL

https://digital.nls.uk/74526862

Attribution and copyright:

The physical item used to create this digital version is out of copyright

More information

Form / genre:

Written and printed matter > Pamphlets
Written and printed matter > Title pages

Dates / events:

1815-1820 [Probable date printed]
1816-1820 [Date printed]
1816-1820 [Probable date printed]
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 [Date/event depicted]
Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 [Date/event in text]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland (country) [Place published]
Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Stirling > Stirling (inhabited place) [Place printed]

Subject / content:

Ballads
Battles
Chapbooks
Heroes
Love
Villains
Wars

Person / organisation:

Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814 [Former owner]
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 [Former owner]
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805 [Former owner]
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 [Former owner]
Fraser, John, d. 1839 [Bookseller]
Fraser, John, d. 1839 [Printer]

To find similar items, select the checkboxes next to the characteristics you are interested in, then select the 'Find similar' button.

Battle of Waterloo

Description

The bonnet so blue, and love has eyes. Chapbook. Sold wholesale by J. Fraser & Co. printers, Stirling, ca.1816-1820.

Shelfmark

L.C.2877(3)

Additional NLS resources:

Library catalogue record

More information

Form / genre:

Written and printed matter > Pamphlets
Written and printed matter > Title pages

Dates / events:

1816-1820 [Probable date printed]
Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 [Date/event in text]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Stirling > Stirling (inhabited place) [Place printed]

Subject / content:

Ballads
Battles
Chapbooks
Love

Person / organisation:

Fraser, John, d. 1839 [Bookseller]

To find similar items, select the checkboxes next to the characteristics you are interested in, then select the 'Find similar' button.

Street literature about Napoleon's Wars

Description

Collection of 78 Scottish chapbooks recounting events from the late 1790s to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Cheap print booklets mostly containing ballads about the military conflicts. Also give insights into contemporary views of Napoleon Bonaparte, Josephine de Beauharnais, Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington.

More information

Form / genre:

Written and printed matter > Pamphlets

Dates / events:

1815-1820 [Probable date printed]
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 [Date/event depicted]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland (country) [Place published]

Subject / content:

Chapbooks
Heroes
Villains
Wars

Person / organisation:

To find similar items, select the checkboxes next to the characteristics you are interested in, then select the 'Find similar' button.