Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850

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John 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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Contents

Acknowledgements ΙΟ
9
The Chapmen
41
The Folk in their Condition
65
Copyright

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Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850
Edward J. Cowan
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Common terms and phrases

Allan Allan Ramsay appear auld baith ballads bawbee bonny booksellers boys Burns century chap chapbooks chapman chapmen cries de'il door drink Dumfries e'er East Lothian Edinburgh English fair Falkirk father fouk frae friends Gaelic gang Glasgow goodman goodwife Graham Greenock Greig-Duncan Haggart hame hand head heart Highland Hogmanay Inveraray Irish Jack James John King kirk Laird lass lassie Leith live Logie Maggy mair maun merry mind morning ne'er Neil Dewar never night NOBLEMAN o'er Paisley Peter M'Craw poem poor popular printed printer published Ramsay Robert Burns Robert Fergusson Robert Gilfillan Robertson Rothbury Saltmarket Scotland Scots Magazine Scottish sergeant soldiers song sowens Stirling sweet tell thee There's took town Wallace weather weel wife wind wives woman wonderful ye're young

About the author (2007)

Edward J. Cowan was formerly Professor of Scottish History at the University of Glasgow and Director of the university's Dumfries Campus. He previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Guelph, Ontario. A fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he died in December 2021.

Bibliographic information

TitleFolk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850
AuthorEdward J. Cowan
EditorsEdward J. Cowan, Michael Paterson
Editionillustrated
PublisherJohn Donald, 2007
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized24 May 2008
ISBN1904607519, 9781904607519
Length438 pages
  
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