Imprint Names: Marshall, J. , Hazard, S. , White, R.
Imprint Locations: London , Bath , London
Date between 1784 and 1807
Notes: Firth c.22(75) is another edition.
Series Identifier: Cheap repository
Title: The gin-shop; or a Peep into a prison
First Line: Look through the land from north to south
Authors: More, Hannah, 1745-1833
References:
ESTC: T195114
Themes: Drunkenness
Imprint Names: Marshall, J. , Hazard, S. , White, R.
Imprint Locations: London , Bath , London
Date between 1784 and 1807
Notes: Johnson Ballads fol. 187 is another edition 2803 b.1(6) is another issue
Series Identifier: Cheap repository
Title: The roguish miller; or Nothing got by cheating. A true ballad
First Line: A miller there was, and he liv'd at his mill
Authors: More, Hannah, 1745-1833
References:
ESTC: T195124
Themes: Millers
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Series Identifier: 526
Title: Banners of blue
First Line: Strike up, strike up, Scottish, minstrels so gay!
Title: Love and the rose
First Line: I saw a village maiden stray
Title: A new song on the times
First Line: Good people all I pray draw near
Themes: Poverty
Imprint Names: Coles, F. , Vere, T. , Wright, J. , Clarke, J.
Imprint Locations: London , London , London , London
Date between 1674 and 1679
Notes: 4o Rawl. 566(209) is another edition.
Title: The bulls feather; being the good-fellows song
First Line: It chanced not long ago, as I was walking
Tune: The bull's feather
References:
ESTC: R227001
Imprint Names: Such, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1863 and 1885
Notes: Harding B 11(9) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 623
Title: Adam was a gentleman
First Line: Old Adam was the first man formed
Tune: Old English gentleman
Themes: Marriage , Adam (Biblical figure)
Title: Auld Robin Gray
First Line: When the sheep are in the fauld and the kye at hame
Authors: Barnard, Anne, Lady, 1750-1825
Themes: Wealth , Lovers parted
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Notes: The illustration of an age and youth in a churchyard is after an engraving by Thomas Bewick in British Birds, vol. 1, 1797, p. 202. See Iain Bain, The watercolours and engravings of Thomas Bewick, vol. 2, p. 147.
Title: A voice from the grave. To those who wish to attain everlasting happiness
First Line: All you who doth these lines behold
Themes: Happiness
Title: The labourer's return to his family with his weekly pay
First Line: Now wife and children let's be gay
Themes: Working class
Imprint Names: Such, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1849 and 1862
Series Identifier: 44
Title: Jimmy Jumps the rhymer!
First Line: Oh, you've heard talk of Billy Nuts
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Ballad writers
Imprint Names: Laurie and Whittle , Rider, J.
Imprint Locations: London , London
Date
1799
Title: The sweating sickness; or The imaginary malady
First Line: Tom Ruby was a merry wag
References:
ESTC: T10201
Imprint Names: s.n.
Imprint Locations:
s.l.
Title: Young Ramble Away
First Line: As I was agoing to Birmingham fair
Themes: Seduction and abandonment , Illegitimacy
Title: Nelly Gray
First Line: On a lone green valley near my old Kentucky shore
Subjects: Kentucky (U.S.A.) , Georgia (U.S.A.)
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Imprint Names: De Marsan, H.
Imprint Locations: New York, N.Y.
Date 1860
Notes: Border: The trapper.
Title: Our Yankee generals
First Line: We are all for the Constitution
Tune: Dixie's land
Themes: American Civil War, 1861-1865
Title: God's dear Son
First Line: God's dear Son, without beginning
Themes: Christmas carols
Imprint Names: Deacon, J. , Blare, J. , Brooksby, P. , Back, J.
Imprint Locations: London , London , London , London
Date
between 1683 and 1696
Title: The distressed damsels; or, A dolefull ditty of a sorrowfull assembly of young maidens that were met together near Thames- street, to bewail the loss of their loves which were lately press'd away to sea
First Line: My sweet sister Sue, ah! what l shado? I [sic]
Tune: An orange
References:
ESTC: R215348
Themes: Press-gangs
Imprint Names: Gustavus, C.
Imprint Locations: London
Date
[1660]
Title: A hymne to the gentle-craft, or Hewsons lamentation
First Line: Listen a while to what I shall say
Tune: The blind beggar
References:
ESTC: R211452
Subjects: Hewson, John, d. 1662
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations:
[s.l.]
Title: Awful railway accident, between Peterborough & Huntingdon
First Line: You feeling Christians I pray draw near
Themes: Railways - accidents
Imprint Names: Cooper, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date 1739
Notes: 12 p.
Title: Sir R--- triumphant. A song address'd to his friends
First Line: This song of triumph now I send
Tune: To all you ladies now at land
References:
ESTC: T107573
Themes: Godschall, sir Robert
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date
between 1813 and 1838
Title: Caroline queen of our island
First Line: Come listen awhile and your thoughts I'll beguile
Subjects: Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, queen, consort of George IV, king of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Title: No green bags! Brave alderman Wood
First Line: When the queen was detain'd on the Italian shore
Subjects: Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, queen, consort of George IV, king of Great Britain, 1768-1821 , Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Themes: Politics and government - 19th century
Imprint Names: Aldermary Church Yard
Imprint Locations: London
Notes: A similiar illustration is at Harding B 6(49).
Title: The cook-maid's garland: or, The out-of-the-way devil
First Line: You gallant[s] all in London
Themes: Highwaymen , Crime - 18th century
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations:
[s.l.]
Title: Jimmy Jumps the rhymer
First Line: Oh, you've heard all talk of Billy Nuts
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Ballad writers
Imprint Names: Janeway, R.
Imprint Locations: London
Date 1713
Notes: 6 p. With: To the most illustrious hero, George Lewis [poem]
Title: Two poems viz. 1. Plot upon plot: a ballad
First Line: Oh wicked Whigs! what can you mean?
Tune: Hey boys up go we
Imprint Names: Purdy, J.
Imprint Locations:
Yarmouth
Title: Downfal of the Yarmouth freemen
First Line: Oh have you heard of the envious Jew
Themes: Parliamentary elections, Yarmouth
Imprint Names: Evans, J. and C.
Imprint Locations: London
Date
between 1821 and 1828
Title: The bloody gardener's cruelty: or, The shepherd's daughter betrayed
First Line: Come all ye lovers, and to me lend an ear
Themes: Murder , Courtship - difference in social status , Cruel mother
Imprint Names: Wright, John
Imprint Locations: London
Date
c.1667
Title: A pleasant song of the valiant deeds of chivalry, atchieved by the noble knight Sir Guy of Warwick
First Line: Was ever knight for ladyes sake
Tune: Was ever man
References:
ESTC: S92798
Subjects: Guy of Warwick (Legendary character)
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations:
[s.l.]
Title: Plains of Waterloo
First Line: On the eighteenth day of June, my boys, Napoleon did advance
Themes: Waterloo, battle of, 1815
Title: The woodland maid
First Line: The woodland maid, my beauty's queen
Title: Lord Marlborough
First Line: You generals all and champions bold
Subjects: Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722
Themes: Military
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Series Identifier: 777
Title: Do a good turn when you can
First Line: How little we think as we travel
Title: Zachery [sic] Bell, or, The Barley Mow
First Line: Did you never hear tell of old Zachary Bell
Themes: Taverns