"Most flagitious!!!" Congress, no. 104 Broadway.

Author/creator Huggins, John Richard Desborus
Other author Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 engraver.
Format Electronic
Publication Info[New York] : [publisher not identified], [1815?]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations
Supplemental ContentShaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subjects

SeriesEarly American imprints. Second series no. 35332. ^A575643
General noteSatirical 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).
General note"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."
General noteIncludes three relief prints signed by Anderson.
General noteText printed in two columns.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 35332
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1815.

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