Apr 15, 2021 - Sale 2564

Sale 2564 - Lot 219

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(EROTICA.) The Fair Maid's Song, When All Alone. Letterpress broadside, 6 1/4 x 6 inches; minimal foxing; uncut. [Enfield, MA: John Howe, circa 1838?]
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In six stanzas, a country maid fantasizes about a miller, a sawyer, a shoemaker, a tailor, and a teamster. "As racy as anything printed in that period"--Gura, Crossroads of American History and Literature, page 131.