Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project

Verses in Vogue with the Vulgar

Handsome Harry or The deceitful young man; shewing how a sailor courted a fair maiden, named Ruth, and having got her with child, he went to sea and left her; and how her ghost appeared to him, &c.

This broadside is described in another broadside of the same title, Handsome Harry.

Additional Metadata

Date

1810-1814

Place of Publication

Boston.

Publisher

Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.

Subjects

Sexual ethics
Deception in literature
Suicide
Sailors
Love
Ghosts

First Line

Come all you hearty lovers.

Identifiers

BIB ID: 278864
OCLC Control No.: (OCoLC)ocm84180255
OCLC Control No.: (OCoLC)ocn191459274
Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 108
AAS General Catalog URL: http://catalog.mwa.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=278864
View larger image

Physical Dimensions

34 x 25 cm.

Transcriptions

View transcription using TEI
Download TEI XML

Related Items

Woodcut for Lord Nelson's battle of the Nile
Woodcut for Cash in hand, : occasioned by the capture of the British packet Swallow, by Commodore Rodgers With 260,000 dollars, in gold and silver on board
Ornament To the teachers of Toryism, : together with Priestcraft exposed. In imitation of Watt's Indian philosopher

Citation

“Handsome Harry or The deceitful young man; shewing how a sailor courted a fair maiden, named Ruth, and having got her with child, he went to sea and left her; and how her ghost appeared to him, &c.,” Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project, accessed September 23, 2023, https://www.americanantiquarian.org/thomasballads/items/show/122.