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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The Scots welcomed their monarch with same sort of enthusiasm which had greeted the return of Mary Queen of Scots , also at Leith , in 1561 , but they had always displayed an ability separate the person and the office .
The Scots welcomed their monarch with same sort of enthusiasm which had greeted the return of Mary Queen of Scots , also at Leith , in 1561 , but they had always displayed an ability separate the person and the office .
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And in after - times it was reckoned illbreeding to turn a loaf in that manner , if there was a person named Menteith in company ; since it was as much as to remind him , that his namesake had betrayed Sir William Wallace , the Champion ...
And in after - times it was reckoned illbreeding to turn a loaf in that manner , if there was a person named Menteith in company ; since it was as much as to remind him , that his namesake had betrayed Sir William Wallace , the Champion ...
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All persons whom it may concern are desired to take notice that steel traps , of the largest size , for catching ... If , therefore , any evil - disposed person or persons shall attempt to break into the grounds of St. Bernard's , their ...
All persons whom it may concern are desired to take notice that steel traps , of the largest size , for catching ... If , therefore , any evil - disposed person or persons shall attempt to break into the grounds of St. Bernard's , their ...
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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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