Author: [Maritime Song Slip]
Title: DEATH Of PARKER
Description: Preston: Harkness, Printer, 121 Church Street, (n. d.). Ca. Mid 1800s. Buff printed paper. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Singe sheet, printed recto only. Small engraving to top of songster. 9-15/16" x 3-1/16" "Ye-gods above protect the widow, and with pity look down on me,/ help me, help me, out of trouble, and out of all calamity./ For by the death of my brave Parker, Fortune hath prov'd to me unkind,/ Tho' doom'd by law he was to suffer, I can't erase him from my mind." Only 1 institutional holding found on OCLC (Natl. Library of Scotland). Rare. Modest wear to paper (slight age-toning to edges, faint creasing to bottom right-hand corner). An about VG example.

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