Pop Goes the Weazle! No. 3
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good; Some light creasing and toning. Faint penciled name (A. M. Catton? ) on top border.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Andrews' Printer, (38 Chatham St. ). Very Good; Some light creasing and toning. Faint penciled name (A. M. . Catton? ) on top border.. N.D.. Ephemera. Circa 1858 handbill. Printed song lyrics with decorative border. Printed on 9.5 x 6 inch sheet on verso only. New lyrics to the old nursery rhyme with references to Queen Victoria, Battle of Sebastopol, Napoleon, and the prohibition law passed in the State of Maine. Last verse reads: Mayor Wood has put the rumsellers through, The Maine Laws a sad evil, We cannot get our toddy now; Pop goes the weazle. A nearly identical version of this ditty, with the z in weazel replaced with an s, can be found in Beadles Dime Song Book, A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs (1857). According to Grosvenor Library Bulletin: An Indexed Catalogue of Books in the Department of Local History and Genealogy (Mar. 1900) : Volume 1, Mayor Wood refers to New York City Mayor Fernando Wood, who was a Tammany Hall politician first elected as Mayor in 1855. His bloody feud with the Republican controlled State legislature created a duplicate New York City police force to try and oust him in 1857 and the chaos of the Gangs of New York era. The 1851 Maine Law, the first statewide prohibition law, and the reference to Mayor Wood putting the rumsellers through alludes to his refusal as mayor to enforce the 1857 New York State prohibition law. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37702
- Title
- Pop Goes the Weazle! No. 3
- Format/Binding
- Ephemera
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good; Some light creasing and toning. Faint penciled name (A. M. Catton? ) on top border.
- Publisher
- Andrews' Printer, (38 Chatham St. )
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- N.D.
- Keywords
- Temperance Movement, Popular Songs, Pop Goes The Weazle, 1850s Popular Songs, Handbill, Broadside Ballads
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.