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"Most flagitious!!!" Congress, no. 104 Broadway...
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 35332. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huggins, John Richard Desborus.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 35332.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Humor.
- Napoleon.
- Huggins, John Richard Desborus.
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- American wit and humor.
- Barbers--Humor.
- Barbers.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Poems -- 1815.
- Humor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [publisher not identified], [1815?]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Satirical proclamation, some of which is in verse, by "the emperor of all the barbers" [i.e., John Richard Desborus Huggins, of New York] declaring Napoleon "an outlaw" after his exile to Elba, and "strictly commanding and enjoining all our vassals, to abstain from shaving him ..." Cf. Huggins, John Richard Desborus. Hugginiana, or, Huggins' fantasy, New York, 1808 (Shaw & Shoemaker 15279).
- "Done at Head-Quarters, 104 Broadway; where the emperor, in person, surrounded by his faithful ministers, continues to wield the sceptre of fashion, to the beautification, the delight and admiration, of the whole polite world."
- Includes three relief prints signed by Anderson.
- Text printed in two columns.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 35332).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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