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Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1819 and 1844

Imprint: Pitts printer wholesale Toy and Marble warehouse, 5 [sic], Great st Andrew street 7 dials

Notes:  Harding B 16(54c) is another edition Harding B 16(55a) is another edition

Ballad - Roud Number: 583

Title: Cold winter is past

First Line: Cold winter is past

Imprint Names:  Walker

Imprint Locations:  Durham

Date  between 1797 and 1834

Imprint: Walker, Printer, Durham

Notes:  A photocopy of the Durham University copy

Series Identifier: 54

1st Ballad - Roud Number: V29733

Title: Catch 'em all alive, O!

First Line: My name is Tommy Tadpole, I does things with eclat

Tune: The Irish dragoon

Performers:  Coefield, Sam

Performance Locations:  The Theatre

Themes:  Street traders

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V30295

Title: The boomerang!

First Line: Listen awhile and awl sing you a sang

Tune: Weel dune Cappy

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Dealer in Songs, Toy-books &c. No. 54 Chatham St. N.Y.

Notes:  The banner held by the cupids at the top of the pictorial frame reads: Ethiopian

Ballad - Roud Number: 275

Title: The Indian lass

First Line: As I was a walking on a fair distant shore

Subjects:  North America

Themes:  Indians of North America

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton 1 Lr Exchange Street Dvblin [sic]

Notes:  A variation, with appropriate detail, of 2806 c.7(54). 2806 c.7(61) is another issue with a different cut.

Ballad

Title: An elegy on the death of the much lamented doctor D M QBrien [sic]

First Line: Yon [sic] sous [sic] aad [sic] you dnuters [sic] of Erins bless'd natiou [sic]

Subjects:  O'Brien, D.M.

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton 1 Lr Exchange Street Dvblin [sic]

Notes:  A variation, with appropriate detail, of 2806 c.7(54). 2806 b.9(149) is another issue with a different cut.

Ballad

Title: An elegy on the death of the much lamented doctor D.M. Q'Brien [sic]

First Line: Yon sous [sic] aad [sic] you dnuters [sic] of Erin's bless'd natiou [sic]

Subjects:  O'Brien, D.M.