[Handbill; verse] The Spiritual Railway

Author: 
Anon.
Publication details: 
H. Such. Machine Printer & Publlisher, 177 Union Street, Boro', S.E. [London]. No date (similar items [1840s] or 1850s]
£120.00
SKU: 13104

One page, 4to, laid down, some chipping and small closed tears, stained and marked but text clear and complete. In two parallel sections, "The Upward Line" (commencing "The line to Heaven by Christ is made"), 40 lines, 10 verses, and "The Down Line" ("There is a Railway downward laid"), 32 lines, 8 verses. Crude image of train at top as well as the number "734". Note at foot revealing that the verses are sold for the benefit of tradesmen who are unemployed and destitute as well as "strnagers in this part of the country". Scarce. The few copies on COPAC appear to be variant (different printer).