Pro-Roman Catholic street ballad entitled 'The Pontiff's Victory, over GARIBALDI.' [With two woodcuts.]

Printed on one side of a piece of wove paper, dimensions roughly 30.5 x 11.5 cm. Good, on aged, and lightly spotted and creased paper. Clear impression above title of engraving (5.5 x 6.5 cm) showing a knight, dismounted from his horse, vizor down and shield on arm, combating with a dragon somewhat akin to a huge wild boar. At the foot of the item, beneath the last line of the poem, another engraving, 2.5 x 8.5 cm, showing two cherubs blowing trumpets into an arrangement of hour-glass and two sickles. Heavily worn type. Forty-line poem beginning 'You bright celestial angels, with our Hoiy [sic] Church rejoice, | Since the Pope is victorious in Rome the flag has hoised, [sic]'. Ends 'Make no delay - turn the rig t [sic] way - and join Holy Popery.' Scarce: only one item of this name on COPAC, at the National Library of Scotland. Although that item features the same poem, it differs from the present copy, having different dimensions (39 x 13 cm) and only one engraving, although with the same misprint in the first line. As the NLS catalogue entry states: 'Dated from internal evidence - the text mentions Garibaldi's defeat and his being held captive "till the year 63" - Garibaldi was defeated, wounded and captured (though soon released) at the battle of Aspromonte in 1862.'