Rule Britannia [electronic resource].
- Author:
- Thomson, James, 1700-1748
- Published:
- [New York] : J. Wrigley. Publisher of songs, ballad's [sic], and toy books, conversation, age, and small playing cards, alphabet wood blocks, valentines, motto verses, and cut motto paper, &c. No. 27 Chathan [i.e., Chatham] Street. (Opposite City Hall Park) New York, [between 1860 and 1866]
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations ; 25 x 16 cm
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- Note:
- Song in six stanzas; first lines: When Britain first, at heaven's commaud [i.e., command], arose from out the azure main.
At head of title: No. 579.
Written by James Thomas. See ballad cataloged in RLIN.
James Wrigley was located at 27 Chatham St., New York, between 1860 and 1863, and again in 1866. New York City directories list him at 29 Chatham St. in 1864 and 1865.
Printed area, including ornamental border described in Library Company of Philadelphia, American song sheets (1963), as "Wrigley military cupid," measures 21.5 x 12.9 cm.
AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Reproduction Note:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 1701).
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