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 118
... town in Scotland after Edinburgh and Glasgow but ' culinary water ' , as it was known , was still brought in by carts and sold on a daily basis ( Chambers and Chambers 1832 , vol . 2 : 828 , 831 ) . How to pay for adequate health care ...
... town in Scotland after Edinburgh and Glasgow but ' culinary water ' , as it was known , was still brought in by carts and sold on a daily basis ( Chambers and Chambers 1832 , vol . 2 : 828 , 831 ) . How to pay for adequate health care ...
Page 119
... town of Paisley have it in their power to relieve the wants of many wretched people , and , what is of the utmost importance , to check the progress of Fever Contagion . It is well known that Nervous Fever has often been the scourge of ...
... town of Paisley have it in their power to relieve the wants of many wretched people , and , what is of the utmost importance , to check the progress of Fever Contagion . It is well known that Nervous Fever has often been the scourge of ...
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... town - clock , always keep time and regularity : - but she should not be like a town - clock , to speak so loud that all the town may hear her . In The Scotch Haggis , a selection of choice bon mots , Irish blunders , repartees ...
... town - clock , always keep time and regularity : - but she should not be like a town - clock , to speak so loud that all the town may hear her . In The Scotch Haggis , a selection of choice bon mots , Irish blunders , repartees ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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