Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850Though 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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stoppage could be made to the great effusion of blood , and death in a short time terminated his existence . I then was placed for the awful operation , which was performed on Christmas morning . The surgeon , being a fisherman , first ...
stoppage could be made to the great effusion of blood , and death in a short time terminated his existence . I then was placed for the awful operation , which was performed on Christmas morning . The surgeon , being a fisherman , first ...
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... when Death calls you to the crowd of common men . Devouring famine , plague , and war , Each able to undo mankind , Death's servile emissaries are : Nor to these alone confin'd 298 Folk in Print : Scotland's Chapbook Heritage.
... when Death calls you to the crowd of common men . Devouring famine , plague , and war , Each able to undo mankind , Death's servile emissaries are : Nor to these alone confin'd 298 Folk in Print : Scotland's Chapbook Heritage.
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The exact period of his birth is not known ; but its supposed that at the time of his father's death , who was killed at the battle of Loudon Hill , in 1293 , he was about fifteen years of age . His mother , after this disastrous event ...
The exact period of his birth is not known ; but its supposed that at the time of his father's death , who was killed at the battle of Loudon Hill , in 1293 , he was about fifteen years of age . His mother , after this disastrous event ...
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Contents
Acknowledgements | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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Allan appear auld began body boys called carried century chap chapbooks chapman clothes collection coming cries death door drink East Lothian Edinburgh English entered fair father fell four friends Gaelic give Glasgow Haggart hand head hear heard heart Jack James John keep King land lass leave live look Maggy means mind morning never night o'er pass person play poem poor popular present printed published reached remained Robertson round Saltmarket Scotland Scots Scottish shillings ship side soldiers song soon sure taken tell There's thing thought till took town true turn Wallace weather whole wife wind woman wonderful young
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| Title | Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850 |
| Author | Edward J. Cowan |
| Editors | Edward J. Cowan, Michael Paterson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | John Donald, 2007 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 1904607519, 9781904607519 |
| Length | 438 pages |
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