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 102
Though we cannot know exactly when the exchange between the wives is supposed to have taken place , Mirk Monday was 29 March 1652 , the occasion of an eight - minute eclipse . Janet , for her part , has a memory extending well back ...
Though we cannot know exactly when the exchange between the wives is supposed to have taken place , Mirk Monday was 29 March 1652 , the occasion of an eight - minute eclipse . Janet , for her part , has a memory extending well back ...
Page 370
They returned to Leith , and were taken by the police for some crimes ; got bail , and were liberated . Haggart had a number of adventures in Edinburgh and neighbourhood , and was put four months in Bridewell .
They returned to Leith , and were taken by the police for some crimes ; got bail , and were liberated . Haggart had a number of adventures in Edinburgh and neighbourhood , and was put four months in Bridewell .
Page 395
... but the cry being set up , ' Stop thief , he was taken and put in confinement , until an escort was ready to convey him to his regiment . At length three hearty fellows arrived , and they set off to headquarters .
... but the cry being set up , ' Stop thief , he was taken and put in confinement , until an escort was ready to convey him to his regiment . At length three hearty fellows arrived , and they set off to headquarters .
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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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