Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Great Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Title: Totham
First Line: Totham! what minstrel ever sung of thee
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Notes: See Johnson, G.W., History of Great Totham, 1834, for another edition.
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Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Great Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Title: Nature's cook
First Line: Death is the cook of nature; and we find
Authors: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624-1674
Notes: From Poems ... written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle, 1668
Themes: Death
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date
1842
Title: The trip to Tiptree; or, A lover's triumph
First Line: Youn' Simon ov Tiptree, a noice steady lad was he
Tune: The tee-totaller
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Notes: Dated Great Totham Hall, near Tiptree, Essex, February, 1842. In Essex dialect
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date 1845
Imprint: Great Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Notes: Johnson Ballads 1734J is another edition.
Title: Queer old bachelors! In imitation of \"Smart young bachelors\"
First Line: Oh! they are a worthless set
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Themes: Bachelors
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Printed by Charles Clark, an Amateur) at his Private Press
Title: Stunners for stockers! or, The cruelty of populating
First Line: Hold! hold! you sinner-stockers all
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Themes: Population
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date
between 1828 and 1866
Title: An epitaph for Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Wm. Larkin, of Great Totham. (An acrostic)
First Line: E-ntomb'd below, by kindred mourn'd, secure from worldly strife
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Notes: Acrostic
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Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date
between 1828 and 1866
Title: The beauties of Braxted. Away to \"The Lodge!\"
First Line: O! to \"Braxted Lodge\" away
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date 1842
Notes: Johnson Ballads 1734S is another issue.
Title: Tiptree races
First Line: Come, up! and brush dull sloth away
Authors: L., R.
Notes: Dated Chiddingly, Sussex, 1842. With additional stanzas by Charles Clark.
Themes: Horse-racing
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Great Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Title: The heiress-entrapping doctor's soliloquy! All in my puss.' An imitation of All round my hat'
First Line: All in my puss I eyes the round shiners
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date 1845
Notes: Printed in red ink.
Title: To Mr. \"T.B.A.\" the pious Wesleyan \"class leader,\" aged 67, who advertises for a wife
First Line: A word with you, you who yourself call \"respectable\"
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date
between 1828 and 1866
Title: Stanzas from The lay of the broken hearts,' a poetical effusion
First Line: My early hours, wherein I knew no fear
Authors: Duckett, Charles William
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Great Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Title: Blank verse in rhyme. To Thomas Hood, esq
First Line: Great sir, -- to utter some their fair prayer dare
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Title: Hamlet of Baddesley Clinton, in the parish of Polesworth, Warwickshire
First Line: This seate and soyele of Saxon Bade, a man of honest fame
Notes: From the Cotton MS. Julius, f. vi, art. 158, p. 296. Now first printed.
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Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Great Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Title: An epithalamium on the marriage of Miss Clara Elizabeth La Touche Vicars and lord Rayleigh
First Line: Hail! far-framed altar of Saint George's
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Themes: Weddings
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date
1843
Title: The beacon tree
First Line: The tree -- the tree -- the beacon tree!
Tune: The sea -- the sea --- the open sea!
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Notes: Dated Tiptree heath 1843
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Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Great Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Title: The disobedient child!
First Line: Children become, while little, our delights
Authors: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688
Notes: From 'A book for boys and girls,' 1686
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Title: The balloon to its finder
First Line: Good finder, -- in the boundless realms of space
Themes: Ballooning
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Great Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Title: The last snooks of many! In imitation of \"The last rose of summer\"
First Line: 'Tis the last snooks of many
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880 , Drydog, Doggerel, pseud. of Charles Clark
Title: To Thomas Hood, esq. ... on the birth of his son
First Line: Great sir, -- so you're a parent, it appears
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date
1844
Title: Chelmsford. The righteous and the race-goers. If there are some asses wot will not go! A parody
First Line: If there are some asses wot will not go
Tune: If I had a donkey
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Notes: Dated Tiptree Heath, August, 1844
Themes: Horse-racing
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Printed by Charles Clark, an Amateur) at his Private Press
Title: Brat-bringer's fare; or, A mother's miseries!
First Line: Qualmish and queer proves a brat-bringer's \"quickening\"
Tune: The hunting of the hare
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Themes: Population
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date 1848
Imprint: Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Notes: Printed in red ink.
Title: Mary Brown
First Line: The pride of all the vale around
Tune: Mary Blane
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date 1845
Imprint: Great Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press
Notes: Johnson Ballads 1734J is another edition.
Title: Joyless Julia; or A young mother's troubles
First Line: Julia once had little care
Tune: Love was once a little boy
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Themes: Mothers
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Printed by Charles Clark, an Amateur) at his Private Press
Title: Joyless Julia; or A young mother's troubles
First Line: Julia once had little care
Tune: Love was once a little boy
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Notes: 2805 c.6(44) is another edition of this ballad alone
Themes: Mothers
Title: Queer old bachelors
First Line: Oh! they are a worthless lot
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Notes: Firth c.20(43) is another edition of this ballad alone
Themes: Bachelors
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date between 1828 and 1866
Imprint: Printed by Charles Clark, an Amateur) at his Private Press
Title: Sinner-stocking. Why, couples, why?
First Line: Why, couples, why
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880
Themes: Population
Imprint Names: Clark, Charles
Imprint Locations: Great Totham
Date 1861
Imprint: Printed by Charles Clark, (an Amateur) at his Private Press
Title: Bills, ills, and chills; or, Rhyme and fun about Sixty-one
First Line: Forbear, forbear thy sternness, Sixty-one!
Authors: Clark, Charles, 1806-1880