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 329
It also suggests the existence , side by side , of the tradition of orally learned and transmitted songs , with the desire to have a printed copy , with the latter supplying a more simple explanation for the existence of Gaelic chaps .
It also suggests the existence , side by side , of the tradition of orally learned and transmitted songs , with the desire to have a printed copy , with the latter supplying a more simple explanation for the existence of Gaelic chaps .
Page 372
He kept along the water side till he got away to the east of Cumlungan Wood , having run nearly ten miles in less than an hour . He then got on the high road to Annan , when he saw a post chaise at full gallop almost within twenty yards ...
He kept along the water side till he got away to the east of Cumlungan Wood , having run nearly ten miles in less than an hour . He then got on the high road to Annan , when he saw a post chaise at full gallop almost within twenty yards ...
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As they were passing by the side of a wood , Allan observed that he would be under the necessity of troubling them for a minute ; his guards accordingly drew up a few paces before him . Pretending to unbutton , he stooped down ...
As they were passing by the side of a wood , Allan observed that he would be under the necessity of troubling them for a minute ; his guards accordingly drew up a few paces before him . Pretending to unbutton , he stooped down ...
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Contents
Acknowledgements | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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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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