Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850John Donald, 2007 - 438 pages Though they represent a great unmined treasure-trove of history, literature and popular culture, chapbooks have been incomprehensibly and disgracefully ignored. This title presents a study of this form of publication. |
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Page 94
... Robert Gilfillan , who in the early nineteenth century wrote a number of popular verses to well - known tunes . A devout legend , common in the seventeenth century , above the entrances of houses , was ' Bless God for a ' gifts ' , with ...
... Robert Gilfillan , who in the early nineteenth century wrote a number of popular verses to well - known tunes . A devout legend , common in the seventeenth century , above the entrances of houses , was ' Bless God for a ' gifts ' , with ...
Page 241
... Robert Gilfillan ( 1798–1850 ) , a native of Dunfermline , was apprenticed as a cooper , or barrel - maker in Leith . He worked as clerk to a wine - merchant and latterly as Collector of the Police Rates for Leith . He was an ...
... Robert Gilfillan ( 1798–1850 ) , a native of Dunfermline , was apprenticed as a cooper , or barrel - maker in Leith . He worked as clerk to a wine - merchant and latterly as Collector of the Police Rates for Leith . He was an ...
Page 433
... Robert Gilfillan , 242 Orr , Francis & Sons , 38 , 411 Orr's Scottish Almanac , 38 Osborne , Maggie , 28 Ossian controversy , 326 Our John's Brak Yestreen , 101 Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) , 65 Pack , The ( Wilson ) , 42 Pagan ...
... Robert Gilfillan , 242 Orr , Francis & Sons , 38 , 411 Orr's Scottish Almanac , 38 Osborne , Maggie , 28 Ossian controversy , 326 Our John's Brak Yestreen , 101 Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) , 65 Pack , The ( Wilson ) , 42 Pagan ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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