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 39
... century . Songs from the chapbooks are now sung by the likes of Adam McNaughtan in the early twenty - first century , the echo of all those Scottish voices which for generations resounded in the home , at work , at school , at weddings ...
... century . Songs from the chapbooks are now sung by the likes of Adam McNaughtan in the early twenty - first century , the echo of all those Scottish voices which for generations resounded in the home , at work , at school , at weddings ...
Page 86
... century , causing much famine , distress and death . The weather improved somewhat in the early eighteenth century , but from 1740 there was a number of severe winters , with colder temperatures in general persisting into the early ...
... century , causing much famine , distress and death . The weather improved somewhat in the early eighteenth century , but from 1740 there was a number of severe winters , with colder temperatures in general persisting into the early ...
Page 413
... Century with Facsimiles , Notes and Introduction , London 1883 , Humour , Wit and Satire of the Seventeenth Century , London Baehre , Rainer K. , 1999 , Outrageous Seas : Shipwreck and Survival in the Waters off Newfoundland 1583–1893 ...
... Century with Facsimiles , Notes and Introduction , London 1883 , Humour , Wit and Satire of the Seventeenth Century , London Baehre , Rainer K. , 1999 , Outrageous Seas : Shipwreck and Survival in the Waters off Newfoundland 1583–1893 ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Chapmen | 41 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Copyright | |
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