Sep 26, 2019 - Sale 2517

Sale 2517 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(WAR OF 1812.) Perry's Victory. Letterpress broadside, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches; foxing, wrinkling, wear at folds, lacking a bit of upper left corner; uncut. Np, circa 1813?

Additional Details

One of many broadside printings of this popular ballad on the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie, which begins "YE tars of Columbia give ear to my story." It is unillustrated, printed in two columns, and the printed area measures 24 x 20 inches--apparently matching none of the editions cataloged by the American Antiquarian Society.