Roving pedlar: and The bonnets of blue

Poetry. Printed area measures 19.7 x 16.8 cm. Text printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at both ends: Sold wholesale and retail by Leonard Deming, corner of Merchants Row and Market Square, Boston. Leonard Deming is listed at this address in Boston directories for 1829 to 1831; also cited as No. 1, Faneuil Hall, South side. The bonnets of blue" is a shortened and re-arranged version, with added refrain, of an unfinished patriotic song by Robert Burns. See R. H. Cromek's "Reliques of Robert Burns..." (1809), p. 279. This edition not in Ford or Checklist Amer. imprints.