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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... carry And when the mice with the cat do play , O then my love and I'll be married . Entered according to order ( prob . c.1800 ) . GUL . Bh13 - c.4 Melodrama in Brief ! Fair Ellen Fair Ellen like a 229 Courtship and Wedded Bliss.
... carry And when the mice with the cat do play , O then my love and I'll be married . Entered according to order ( prob . c.1800 ) . GUL . Bh13 - c.4 Melodrama in Brief ! Fair Ellen Fair Ellen like a 229 Courtship and Wedded Bliss.
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For meal or malt she does not want , Nor anything that's dainty ; And now and then a kecklen hen , To lay her eggs in plenty . asked pleasant scarce In The bold mariner ; or , the dangers of the sea . Entered according to order 1798 .
For meal or malt she does not want , Nor anything that's dainty ; And now and then a kecklen hen , To lay her eggs in plenty . asked pleasant scarce In The bold mariner ; or , the dangers of the sea . Entered according to order 1798 .
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Here , I and four of the crew , entered on board the schooner Rebecca , Captain Maxwell , about to sail for the coast of Labrador , for a cargo of fish , and afterwards proceed to Cadiz . We accordingly sailed for Cape Charles , where ...
Here , I and four of the crew , entered on board the schooner Rebecca , Captain Maxwell , about to sail for the coast of Labrador , for a cargo of fish , and afterwards proceed to Cadiz . We accordingly sailed for Cape Charles , where ...
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Contents
Acknowledgements | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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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
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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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