An unpacific yarn ... : Pears' soap.

  • Pears (A. & F.) Limited.
Date:
[between 1880 and 1889?]
  • Ephemera

About this work

Description

A magazine insert consisting of a comical poem (probably early 1880s) about the black Bishop Q of Wangaloo who is visited by the white Bishop Brown of Monkeytown and becomes upset "because he wasn't white". Bishop Brown gives him 2 cakes of Pears' Soap which washes off his black and he is loved by all again, the moral being that "cleanliness and godliness go ever hand in hand".

Publication/Creation

[London] : Pears, [between 1880 and 1889?]

Physical description

1 folded sheet (4 pages) : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Notes

"The president of the College of surgeons of England, Sir Erasmus Wilson" [who died in 1884], called it a "balm for 'the skin."

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    EPH162
  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    EPH/162/13A

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