£1,200
THE PENNY POSTAGE ACT! BAWDY SONG/PIANO MUSIC ILLUSTRATED BY MULREADY CARICATURIST; Complete 8-page 16 Aug. 1839 folio-size printed music and lyrics for this song which was first quoted in the 16 Aug. 1839 'Nottingham Journal' newspaper; "Something I want to write upon, to scare away each vapour, The Penny Postage shall I try? why yes - Ill write on paper! Thy great inventor, Rowland Hill, each person loudly hails. The females all are full of it, and so are all the mails!..." etc. The front cover (neatly folded to fit an album-page) has a large caricature design depicting a Punch-like figure writing a Valentine(?) above a grumpy Rowland Hill who is handing out letters to all and sundry (servants, beggars, soldiers etc.); it is inscribed "Designed & Lithod. by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington St., Strand" who went on to design some of the most successful Mulready Caricatures of 1840, those published by J.W. Southgate. We have only recorded three examples of this spectacularly illustrated song that celebrated the introduction of Cheap Postage so soon after it was first announced.Cross Reference: MULREADY STATIONERY & PROPAGANDA COVERS
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