Imprint Names: Brooksby, P.
Imprint Locations: London
Date
between 1672 and 1696
Title: The innocent country maids delight, or, A description of the lives of the lasses of London
First Line: Some lasses are nice and strange
References:
ESTC: R234325
Themes: Prostitution
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Imprint Names: Brooksby, P.
Imprint Locations: London
Date
between 1672 and 1696
Title: A pleasant new ballad: being a merry discourse between a country lass & a young taylor
First Line: In harvest-time I walked
Tune: Kester crab
References:
ESTC: R228117
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Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations:
[s.l.]
Title: A new song on the present times
First Line: Let Albions sons for ever sing
Subjects: Wilkes, John, 1727-1797
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Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date
between 1802 and 1819
Title: A new song, called The Endymion's triumph
First Line: Come all you valiant British tars, attend unto my theme
Themes: Sailors , War of 1812
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Imprint Names: Birmingham, W.
Imprint Locations: Dublin
Date c.1867
Notes: See also Harding B 19(44).
Title: An admired song called blue-eyed Mary
First Line: As I roved out one summer's day to view the flowers springing
Title: Elegiac lines on our invincible chieftain O'Connell
First Line: Oh, yon heavenly muse and yon angelic virgin
Subjects: O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847
Title: The poor Connaughtman
First Line: I am a poor Connaught man from the town of Athlone
Themes: Countryman in Dublin
Title: A much amired [sic] [s]ong called the dark-eyed gipsy O
First Line: There were three gipsies in the east
Themes: Gipsies
Title: Fisher's funeral
First Line: Like October leaves the great men fall
Title: A new song called William and Nancy
First Line: Adieu, lovely Nancy, since now I must leave you
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Imprint Names: Laurie and Whittle
Imprint Locations: London
Date
1798
Title: Frank Hayman, a tale
First Line: Frank Hayman, once a brother of the brush
Authors: Taylor, John
References:
ESTC: N26464
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Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date
between 1802 and 1819
Title: The Northern ditty, or, the Scotchman outwitted by the country damsel. To which is added, a second part
First Line: Cold and raw the north did blow
Tune: To a new Scotch tune; or, Cold and raw the north did blow
Authors: D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723
Themes: Wealth , Attempted seduction
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Imprint Names: Dicey, W. and C.
Imprint Locations: London
Date
between 1736 and 1763
Title: William and Susan
First Line: All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd
Tune: Black-ey'd Susan
Authors: Gay, John, 1685-1732
References:
ESTC: T207050
Themes: Sailors , Love, pleasant
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Imprint Names: Dickinson, B.
Imprint Locations: London
Notes: 8 p. Illustration is an engraving
Title: The merry campaign; or The Westminster and Green-park scuffle. A new court ballad
First Line: God prosper long our noble king!
Tune: Chevy chase
References:
ESTC: T60961
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Marshall, W.
Imprint Locations: London , Bristol
Date between 1813 and 1838
Notes: With a prose account of the ballad story
Title: The young man's dream
First Line: Give ear ye gay deluded youths
Themes: Crime - 19th century
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Imprint Names: Pritchard, C.E.
Imprint Locations:
London
Title: Fracas royal extraordinaire. New version. 2nd ed
First Line: Cried G....ge, who dare my will resist
Subjects: Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, queen, consort of George IV, king of Great Britain, 1768-1821 , Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 , George IV, king of Great Britain, 1762-1830 , Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826
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Imprint Names: Disley, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1860 and 1883
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(3287).
Title: General Wolfe
First Line: Bold general Wolfe to his men did say
Subjects: Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
Imprint Names: Broom, T. , Evans, W. , Glindon, W.
Imprint Locations:
London
,
London
,
London
Title: Col. Gwillim Lloyd Wardle, Sir Francis Burdett, and the supporters of the tree of liberty
First Line: Honour demands the song of praise
Subjects: Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 , Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762-1833 , Burdett, Francis, Sir, 1770-1844
Themes: 1809
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Imprint Names: Marshall, J. , Hazard, S. , White, R.
Imprint Locations: London , Bath , London
Date [1795]
Notes: Johnson Ballads fol. 187 is another edition ; Johnson Ballads fol. 188 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
Themes: Economy and trade - 19th century
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Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date
between 1802 and 1819
Title: All the world at Paris
First Line: Now's the time to change our clime
Performers: Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778-1837
Subjects: Paris (France)
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Imprint Names: Sheppard, C.
Imprint Locations: London
Date 1786
Notes: An engraving.
Title: Damon & Phillis
First Line: A shepherd in clusters crept close by a grove
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Imprint Names: West, J.
Imprint Locations:
Brighton
Title: All alone. Cottage by the sea
First Line: Just one year ago to-day, love
Themes: Widows
Title: My lad, your mother's dead
First Line: A soldier he returned again
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Imprint Names: Marshall, J. , Hazard, S. , White, R.
Imprint Locations: London , Bath , London
Date [1795]
Notes: Johnson Ballads fol. 182 is another edition.
Series Identifier: Cheap repository
Title: The old man, his children, and the bundle of sticks. A fable
First Line: A good old man, no matter where
Authors: More, Hannah, 1745-1833
References:
ESTC: T42174
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Imprint Names: Marshall, J. , Hazard, S. , White, R.
Imprint Locations: London , Bath , London
Date [1795]
Notes: Harding B 7(1) is another edition.
Series Identifier: Cheap repository
Title: The market woman, a true tale; or Honesty is the best policy
First Line: A farmer's wife to market went
Authors: More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Themes: Economy and trade - 19th century
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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
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date
between 1813 and 1838
Title: My Nannie, O
First Line: Behind yon hills, where Stinchar flows
Title: The slave
First Line: Sons of freedom! hear my story
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Slavery
Title: The broom of Cowden-knows
First Line: When summer comes, the swains on Tweed
Title: [None]
First Line: A damsel stood to watch the fight
Performers: Bradshaw, Ann Maria, 1801-1862
Title: Glee for three voices
First Line: Amidst the myrtles as I walk'd
Title: Hole in the ballad
First Line: Your laughter I'll try to provoke
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833
Themes: Ballads
Title: Farewell Rosina
First Line: Farewell Rosina, lovely fair
Title: The pilgrim of love
First Line: Orynthia, my beloved, I call in vain
Title: Fly away pretty moth
First Line: Fly away pretty moth to the shade
Title: Liberty
First Line: Since ev'ry charm on earth combines
Themes: Liberty
Title: An old man, &c
First Line: An old man would be wooing
Title: Taste, O! taste
First Line: Taste, O taste this spicy wine
Themes: Drinking
Title: Irish schoolmaster
First Line: Old Teddy O'Rook kept a nice little school
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: Merry rows the bonny bark
First Line: O! merry row, O merry row
Title: Our king and our country for ever
First Line: To friendship and love, round our gay jovial ring
Title: The violet girl
First Line: Come buy my pretty violets blue
Themes: Street traders
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