£25
Two ballad broadsheets printed by Woolcock, General and Commercial Printer, Helston, c1850. 'Ben, The Sailor,' a 4to sheet, 225cm x 170mm, of 27 six-line stanzas over three columns with woodcuts at head and food, laid down and trimmed to margins with loss of decorative border to head, otherwise in vg condition, Woolcock, General & Commercial Printer, Helston, c1850; Thomas Morris. 'Upwards of Twenty Lives Lost by Awful Shipwrecks, in Cornwall..Composed by Thomas Morris, Breage. 21 four-line stanzas, over two columns, with an engraving of a ship at head, all within decorative border, slightly damaged to its LHS. Reproduced in Merv Davey's 'Hengan: Traditional Folk Songs, Dances and Broadside Ballads Collected in Cornwall (p.66)', 250mm x 185mm, Woolcock, General & Commercial Printer, Helston, c1850. (2)
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