Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: The broken-hearted gardener
First Line: She's my myrtle, my geranium
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 108
Title: Poor old maidens
First Line: Four score and ten of us
Themes: Spinsters
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date [1851]
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Exhibition of all nations
First Line: Good people all of each degree
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Great exhibition, 1851
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Molly the betrayed
First Line: In a kitchen in Portsmouth, a fair maid did dwell
Notes: Slip
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Notes: Slip
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Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Wholesome advice to drunkards
First Line: You drunkards I pray attend
Themes: Taverns , Drunkenness
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: The humours of this town
First Line: Let us be merry, it's no use to cry
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: The countryman's ramble to the fair
First Line: Come all you jolly husbandmen, and listen to my song
Themes: Fairs
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: The dandy wife
First Line: Come all young men of high renown
Themes: Education , Marriage - men , Housework
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Billy Barlow
First Line: O when I was born, says old mother Goose
Notes: Slip
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Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Who's your hatter
First Line: Come all pretty maidens of every degree
Themes: Fashions
Notes: Firth c.21(125) torn upper left corner Slip
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Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: General Haynau
First Line: Good people pay attention pray
Authors: Everson, W.
Subjects: Haynau, J.J. von Haynau, Baron
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Bob, the policeman, and charming Bet!
First Line: Oh, Bob says Bet, you often said
Themes: Police
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Mother don't you cry
First Line: Oh, well do I remember now
Themes: Transported convict
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 20(82).
Title: Johnny Cope
First Line: Cope sent a letter to Dunbar
Themes: Jacobite Rebellion, 1745
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 7
Title: As I wandered by the brookside
First Line: As I wandered by the brookside
Notes: Harding B 15(263a) is another edition of this ballad alone.
Title: The Englishman
First Line: There's a land that bears a well known name
Authors: Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889
Subjects: England
Themes: Patriotism
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: A damsel's adventures
First Line: Men and maids give attention to what I do say
Tune: The sprig of shillelah
Themes: Marriage prospects - women , Tradesmen
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Poisoned family
First Line: Good friends far and near, come you quickly shall hear
Title: The Sicilian maid
First Line: I knew a Sicilian maid
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Pretty Caroline
First Line: One morning in the month of May, how sweetly shone the sun
Themes: Lovers reunited
Title: Hookey Walker
First Line: Forty years back this body was born
Notes: With prose introduction
Themes: Education
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Down among the dead men
First Line: Here's a health to the king and a lasting peace
Authors: Dyer, J.
Themes: Drinking
Title: Sights of --- fair!
First Line: The morning is so pleasant
Themes: Fairs
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 560
Title: The landlord's bar
First Line: When first I took to drinking
Tune: The low back'd car
Authors: Thornton, L.M., d. 1888
Themes: Temperance
Notes: Slip
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Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Sporting humours of the races
First Line: Draw near and listen to my song
Tune: Paddy will you now
Authors: Youd, John
Themes: Horse-racing
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Unfortunate Sally! Or, Billy don't you cry
First Line: Now Sally, where are you going
Themes: Rejected suitor , Soldiers , Paternity , Theaters
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 586
Title: The widow's last prayer. Answer to \"Mother, is the battle over?\"
First Line: O, mother dear, now leave off crying
Themes: Death
Title: Smiles and tears
First Line: When all within is calm & bright
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Notes: Slip. Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(3471)
Title: The wishing gate
First Line: 'Twas a Michaelmas eve rather late
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 421
Title: The workhouse boy
First Line: The cloth vas laid in the vorkhouse hall
Title: Beautiful Venice
First Line: Beautiful Venice! City of song!
Subjects: Venice (Italy)