Songs of the press and other poems relative to the art of printers and printing. Also of authors, books, booksellers, bookbinders, editors, critics, newspapers, etc. Original and selected. With notes, biographical and literary / [Edited by C.H. Timperley].
- Charles Henry Timperley
- Date:
- 1845
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Songs of the press and other poems relative to the art of printers and printing. Also of authors, books, booksellers, bookbinders, editors, critics, newspapers, etc. Original and selected. With notes, biographical and literary / [Edited by C.H. Timperley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ilis form, at length, fell into pie.* Death stood at his frame side, Composing gently to the last, This son of Caxton died ; “ We ne’er shall see his like again Divested of all pride— His purse was open to a friend— The wants were all supplied. Of the pressman, &e. Though men and manners since have chang’d, Britannia rules the waves ; For England’s right, her hearts of oak Ne’er yield, but in their graves ; Success attend our Union, Unknown in days of yore, With three times three, hip ! hip ! hurra ! Hurra ! and one cheer more, For the Typo’s Northern Union In days of modern time. Sal/drd, 1837. C. W. Wallis. THE NEWSPAPER; OR, CROSS READINGS. I wants a place, and who does not ? 1 wish I’d as good as zum volk got; I’d not disagree for a guinea or two, If I’d plenty of money and nothing to do ; Zuppose in the paper I takes a look, Why, ’tis like all the world written down in a hook. [Looks at a paper.] Here’s wanting, and wanted, and news rather old. And much to be given, and more to be sold. Reads.] Here be persons and property protected—in the flying Gravesend steamer, which be run down twice a week opposite the Isle of Dogs—and every soul on board, except, the stoker, committed to hard labour—at a public dinner, where the chairman drank—fifteen hogsheads of Bass’s India](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29303011_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
