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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... Song Lunardi's Balloon ΙΟ II 4I 45 46 50 65 65 67 69 The Chapter of Fashions 72 A New Song on Tobacco 74 A New Song , Sung at the Meeting of the Perthshire Florist and Vegetable Society 77 80 The Cries of Edinburgh Fine Harvest Weather ...
... Song Lunardi's Balloon ΙΟ II 4I 45 46 50 65 65 67 69 The Chapter of Fashions 72 A New Song on Tobacco 74 A New Song , Sung at the Meeting of the Perthshire Florist and Vegetable Society 77 80 The Cries of Edinburgh Fine Harvest Weather ...
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... song : Scotland is pre - eminently the land of song - writers and lyrical poets , who , sprung from her historic soil , have celebrated in tuneful verse the living annals and social characteristics , the triumphs and misfortunes , the ...
... song : Scotland is pre - eminently the land of song - writers and lyrical poets , who , sprung from her historic soil , have celebrated in tuneful verse the living annals and social characteristics , the triumphs and misfortunes , the ...
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... song does succeed in preserving something of the public feeding frenzy occasioned by the presence of the unappetising George IV . The Scots welcomed their monarch with same sort of enthusiasm which had greeted the return of Mary Queen ...
... song does succeed in preserving something of the public feeding frenzy occasioned by the presence of the unappetising George IV . The Scots welcomed their monarch with same sort of enthusiasm which had greeted the return of Mary Queen ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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