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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Page 107
I true [ trow ] whan my gran mither heard that , she gat up and ran ben [ through ] to the spence [ larder ] , and crap [ crept ] in the bear [ barley ] meal barrel to hide herself frae the de'il , and curr'd [ crouched ] there ' till ...
I true [ trow ] whan my gran mither heard that , she gat up and ran ben [ through ] to the spence [ larder ] , and crap [ crept ] in the bear [ barley ] meal barrel to hide herself frae the de'il , and curr'd [ crouched ] there ' till ...
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Oh , wha hasnae heard o ' doomed Richmond the Spy , The most damnable rascal that breathes neath the sky ; In history's page ye'll find Nero a guy , Compared with the deeds o ' doomed Richmond the Spy . For Richmond some years back ...
Oh , wha hasnae heard o ' doomed Richmond the Spy , The most damnable rascal that breathes neath the sky ; In history's page ye'll find Nero a guy , Compared with the deeds o ' doomed Richmond the Spy . For Richmond some years back ...
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... afterwards learned that they actually heard me ; but being prepossessed with an idle story , of a wild man being in ... and I think it was the next day that some of my acquaintance , having accidentally heard that I had gone the way ...
... afterwards learned that they actually heard me ; but being prepossessed with an idle story , of a wild man being in ... and I think it was the next day that some of my acquaintance , having accidentally heard that I had gone the way ...
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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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