Imprint Names: Bentley, J.
Imprint Locations: Bradford
Imprint: Sold Wholesale and Retail by J. Bently [sic], 4...
Title: Mary Ackling
First Line: You tender young lovers draw near
Imprint Names: The Poet's box
Imprint Locations: Glasgow
Date [1854?]
Imprint: Printed by the Poet's Royal Yankee Press, at No. [6 St. Andrew's lane, Glasgow] ... Saturday morning, March 4, 185[4?]
Title: The beautiful maid of the valley of Leven
First Line: In yon lovely valley, where Leven flows clear
Tune: Afton water
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: J. Harkness, Printer, 121 & 122, Church street; office, 4, North road Preston
Series Identifier: 394
Title: Nothing
First Line: When rhyming and verse first were in fashion
Title: My eye and Betty Martin
First Line: In Yorkshire I was born and bred
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: J. Harkness, Printer, 121, & 122, Church Street; Office, -- 4 North Road Preston
Notes: Harding B 20(209) is another edition.
Title: The handsome factory lass
First Line: As down by the factory I alone one morning stray'd
Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1802 and 1819
Imprint: Printed and sold by J. Pitts 1[4] Great st Andrew street seven Dials
Title: The cruel father, and constant lover
First Line: A lady's daughter in the west
Themes: Murder , Courtship - difference in social status , Suicide
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Imprint Names: Evans, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1780 and 1812
Imprint: Sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-lane.
Notes: See Harding B 4(67) for another appearance of the second illustration.
Title: Etrick banks
First Line: On Etrick banks, in a summer's night
References:
ESTC: T10434
Notes: Johnson Ballads 357; Imperfect: lacks the first illustration.
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Notes: Harding B 22(77); Imperfect: lacks the first illustration. Johnson Ballads 357; Imperfect: lacks the first illustration.
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Notes: Johnson Ballads 357; Imperfect: lacks the first illustration.
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Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date 1846
Imprint: Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Title: Lines written upon the departure of Elizabeth Bridge, of Totham ... July 4th, 1846
First Line: Our sister's reach'd the happy shore
Authors: P., E.
Themes: Death
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Firth c.26(4).
Title: Peter him say nothing
First Line: Massa girl him keep
Tune: Bob and Joan
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy , Servants
Imprint Names: Bathgate, J.
Imprint Locations: Liverpool
Date c.1847
Imprint: J. Bathgate, Printer, 198 Park Lane, Liverpool
Series Identifier: 4
Title: The Paddy mouse
First Line: Once in old Ireland, there started a mouse
Themes: Ireland
Title: Never push a man when he's going down the hill
First Line: In this sensation century
Imprint Names: Wheeler, J.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1827 and 1847
Imprint: J. Wheeler Printer, No 4, Well-Street Manchester
Title: Song of the slaughterd [sic]
First Line: Parent of the wide creation
Authors: Bamford, Samuel, 1788-1872
Themes: Politics and government - 19th century , Peterloo Massacre, 1819 , 1819
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date 1844
Notes: Dated Great Totham, June 4, 1844
Title: The marriage at Totham. An acrostic
First Line: G-lorious Hymen! mark again how he speeds in his bright career
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Themes: Marriage
Imprint Names: The Poet's box
Imprint Locations: Glasgow
Date 1865?
Imprint: ... the Poet's Box, 6 [St Andrew's lane, Glasgow] ... Saturday Morning, Feb. 4, 186[5?]
Title: The Carse of Pommaize
First Line: I have rambled this country both early and late
Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1802 and 1819
Imprint: Printed by J. Pitts No 4 [sic], Great St Andrew Street Seven Dial[s]
Title: Waterloo fashions
First Line: But a few months ago we were taught to rejoice
Themes: Trade depression , Waterloo, battle of, 1815
Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Marshall, J. , Hazard, S. , White, R.
Imprint Locations: London , Bath , London
Date [1795]
Imprint: Sold by J. Marshall ... No. 17, Queen Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard ... Bath
Notes: 2803 b.1(4) is another edition.
Series Identifier: Cheap repository
Title: Patient Joe; or, the Newcastle collier
First Line: Have you heard of a collier of honest renown
Authors: More, Hannah, 1745-1833
References:
ESTC: T43772
Themes: Coalmines and mining
Imprint Names: Marshall, J. , Hazard, S. , White, R.
Imprint Locations: London , Bath , London
Date [1795]
Imprint: Sold by J. Marshall ... No. 17, Queen Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard ... Bath
Series Identifier: Cheap repository
Title: The execution of wild Robert
First Line: Wild Robert was a graceless youth
Authors: More, Hannah, 1745-1833
References:
ESTC: T33758
Themes: Executions
Imprint Names: Marshall, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date [c.1795]
Imprint: Sold by J. Marshall ... No. 17, Queen Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard ... Bath
Notes: Vet. A5 a.15(20) is another edition.
Series Identifier: Cheap repository
Title: The sorrows of Yamba; or The negro woman's lamentation
First Line: In St. Lucie's distant isle
Tune: Hosier's ghost
References:
ESTC: N3953
Themes: Slavery
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: John Harkness, Printer, 121, Church street; Office -- 4, North Road, Preston
Series Identifier: 68
Title: The new police
First Line: I'm one of the new police -- egad!
Notes: Five stanzas
Themes: Police
Title: The grand conversation under the rose
First Line: As Mars and Minerva were viewing some instruments
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: J. Harkness, Printer, 121, & 122 Church Street, Office, 4, North Road Preston
Series Identifier: 134
Title: The collier lass
First Line: My name is Polly Parker, I'm come o'er from Worsley
Themes: Coalmines and mining
Title: A new song in praise of George Donaldson. The champion of the light weights
First Line: Come all you sporting lively lads wherever that you be
Themes: Wrestling
Imprint Names: Pearson, T.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1850 and 1899
Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 4 & 6, Chadderton St., Oldham Road, Manchester
Title: There's bound to be a row
First Line: I'm a poor, unlucky married man
Themes: Domestic strife
Title: Shy! shy!! dreadfully shy!
First Line: Had I been a monk or a hermit, that dwelt
Performers: Leybourne, George, 1842-1884
Imprint Names: Moore, A.
Imprint Locations: London
Date 1727
Imprint: London: Printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster. 1727
Notes: 4 p. ESTC reports A. Moore is pseudonym.
Title: A ballad: occasion'd by some ladies wearing ruffs at court on the anniversary of his m---y's birth-day
First Line: Ye lords and ladies of this isle
References:
ESTC: N191
Themes: Fashions
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: J. Harkness, Printer, 121, Church Street, Preston
Notes: Firth b.25(371) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 4
Title: Love in a hay-band
First Line: Did you never hear of one Richard Short's history
Themes: Taverns , Agricultural laborers
Title: The flare-up
First Line: When I reach'd this town I thought it wur a queer 'un
Themes: City vs. country , Countryman in town
Imprint Names: McCall, W.
Imprint Locations: Liverpool
Date between 1857 and 1877
Imprint: W. M'Call, Printer, 4, Cartwright Place, Byrom-street Liverpool
Series Identifier: 14
Title: The Irish girl
First Line: As I walk'd out one evening, down by a river side
Title: Bonny Irish boy
First Line: When first I was courted by a bonny Irish boy
Imprint Names: Pearson, T.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1850 and 1899
Imprint: Printed by T. Pearson, Machine Printer, 4, and 6, Chadderton Street, Manchester
Series Identifier: 5
Title: Sally likes her beer
First Line: I'se Rodger Rough, a plough boy
Themes: Drinking
Title: Cambria's minstrel boy
First Line: Through Cambria's sweet valleys I stray
Title: It's funny when you feel that way
First Line: I sha'nt forget how queer I felt
Performers: Coyne, Fred
Notes: Verse and prose
Imprint Names: Moore, A.
Imprint Locations: London
Date 1720
Imprint: London: Printed for A. Moor [sic] near St. Paul's Church, and Sold by the Booksellers. 1720
Notes: 4 p.
Title: Duke upon duke, an excellent new play-house ballad
First Line: To lordings [sic] proud I tune my song
Attributation: Set to musick by Mr Holdecombe
References:
ESTC: T5533
