The Poetry Broadside, now gorgeous unto precious, printed on letterpress printer on handmade paper in honor of a poetry reading or new book, began in the sixteenth century. News of tday or a ballad sold on the street by chapmen for a penny - single sheet of cheap paper, accompanied sometimes by woodcut which might have been used before, hence the often smudgy appearance of the art. Broadsides predated pamphlets and the newspaper, and were aimed at the newly almost literate, to the chagrin unto anger of the British nobility. In the American colonies the democratic notion that all could be informed on a daily basis fit in quite well. Chapmen selling broadside ballads would often sing the ballads to attract customers. Gutenberg printed the first one in 1454. I can't seem to get any images to stick from the friendly old internet but perhaps you can see some at the Library of Congress site or the National Library of Scotland site. Go to Broadsided to see present day broadsides you can download for yourself, or become a vector! These don't cost even a penny. I'm having problems giving you these links too. Is my security too high? Am I a secret Luddite? Google or Bing any of these. Sheesh.