Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Series Identifier: 713
Title: A dying husband's farewell
First Line: I think I hear a solemn cry
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Series Identifier: 685
Title: Death and the lady
First Line: Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside
Themes: Mortality
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: 2806 c.13(21) is another edition. 2806 c.13(21) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 367
Title: Such a nobby head of hair
First Line: You have called on me to sing a song, I'll try what I can do
Title: Stunning uncle Benjamin
First Line: My uncle Benjamin an' ole aunt Sally
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, Park-road, Preston
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(438)
Title: Brave Nelson
First Line: The 21st, of October
Subjects: Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805
Themes: Trafalgar, battle of, 1805
Notes: Slip.
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Johnson Ballads 2001Notes: Slip.
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Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: Slip. Part of a sheet of two ballads. See Firth c.26(1)
Title: The mariner's grave
First Line: I remember the night was stormy and wet
Themes: Naval
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Series Identifier: 697
Title: A new teetotal song and dialogue between a drunkard & teetotaler
First Line: If you that have money and you that have none
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Temperance
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Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Series Identifier: 700
Title: Live and conversion of the poor orphan sweep
First Line: O, when a boy, just few years old
Themes: Orphans
Title: The child's inquiry
First Line: You oft have told me, mother dear
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Preston
Series Identifier: 704
Title: The mariner's grave
First Line: I remember the night was stormy and wet
Themes: Naval
Title: A plumper for Strickland
First Line: Electors of Preston -- three cheers for free trade
Subjects: Preston (England)
Themes: Politics and government - 19th century , Parliamentary elections, Preston
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, Park-road, Preston
Notes: The first illustration is signed: J.H. Firth c.12(41) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 81
Title: Brave Nelson
First Line: The 21st, of October
Subjects: Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805
Title: The prentice boy
First Line: Twas down by Sally's garden one evening as I strayed
Themes: Social status , Lotteries
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, 121, Church Street, Preston
Notes: Firth c.21(140) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 560
Title: Pat Finnigan
First Line: I am a decent gay labouring youth
Title: I'm a gent
First Line: I'm a gent, I'm a gent, I'm a ready made gent
Themes: Dandies
Title: The moon is up
First Line: The moon is up and in the sky
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date [1847]
Series Identifier: 520
Title: Murders of John Wraith, aged 77 -- mrs. Wraith 70 -- and Caroline Ellis, the servant, 21; at Mirfield, near Dewsbury, on Wednesday May 12th, 1847
First Line: Good people all with feeling hearts
Themes: Murder - 19th century , 1847
Title: Comin through the rye
First Line: Gin a body meet a body
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, 121, Church Street, Preston
Series Identifier: 21
Title: Remember ten o'clock my dear
First Line: 'Twas ten o'clock one moonlight night
Title: Willie brew'd a peck o' maut
First Line: O, Willie brew'd a peck o' maut
Themes: Drinking
Title: Kickeraboo! A favourite song
First Line: One negro say one thing, you take no offence
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: J. Harkness, Printer
Notes: The illustration is part of a pictorial alphabet (letters N and O): see Firth c.21(66) and Harding B 16(224b).
Series Identifier: 458
Title: The royal fortune hunter, or Good advice to wives, maids, or widows
First Line: All you who wish your fortune for to know
Themes: Fortune-telling
