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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... ballads and penny chapbooks were scattered to eagerly receptive children . Sandy Elder's bookshop in his hometown of Peebles barely concealed a milk cow behind the bookshelves , which contained catechisms , Bibles and Testaments , as ...
... ballads and penny chapbooks were scattered to eagerly receptive children . Sandy Elder's bookshop in his hometown of Peebles barely concealed a milk cow behind the bookshelves , which contained catechisms , Bibles and Testaments , as ...
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... ballads from James Duncan , printer in Glasgow , selling about fourteen of them in Kirkcudbrightshire . He claimed that another individual had written the ballad and that earlier in the year Samuel Gordon and George Park , merchants ...
... ballads from James Duncan , printer in Glasgow , selling about fourteen of them in Kirkcudbrightshire . He claimed that another individual had written the ballad and that earlier in the year Samuel Gordon and George Park , merchants ...
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... ballads and songbooks . His output was remarkable . He noted that in 1801 , between 8 February and 18 March , he printed 48,000 halfpenny books followed by 12,000 penny ones . ' And on 1 May I finished my 240 reams 2 of ballads , which ...
... ballads and songbooks . His output was remarkable . He noted that in 1801 , between 8 February and 18 March , he printed 48,000 halfpenny books followed by 12,000 penny ones . ' And on 1 May I finished my 240 reams 2 of ballads , which ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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