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Edition - Bod4410

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.Bennett, R.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Dealer in Songs, Toy-books &c. No. 54 Chatham St. N.Y. [and] Presented for publication by Robt. Bennett, Stationer and Song-dealer, 157 1/2 Bowery, New-York

Notes:  Border: Kissing cupids.


Ballad - Roud Number: V8724

Title: Is that mother?

First Line: Is that mother bending o'er me

Notes:  With a prose account of the death of a soldier.

Harding B 18(303)

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Edition - Bod4423

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.Bennett

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Dealer in Songs, Toy-books &c. No. 54 Chatham St. N.Y. [and] Presented for publication by Bennett, retail- dealer in songs, 157 1/2 Bowery

Notes:  Border: Ethiopian.


Ballad - Roud Number: V6037

Title: Smiggey McGuirrel

First Line: I had a son, he came from the war

Harding B 18(444)

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Harding B 18(711)

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Edition - Bod925

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.Bennett and Carroll

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Dealer in Songs, Toy-books &c. No. 54 Chatham St. N.Y. [and] Presented for publication by Bennett & Carroll, 177 Bowery, New-York

Notes:  Border: Military cupid.


Ballad - Roud Number: V4326

Title: Ould Ireland you're my darlin'

First Line: Ould Ireland you're

Themes:  Ireland

Harding B 18(388)

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Edition - Bod4150

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:  Border: Ethiopian.


Ballad - Roud Number: V3589

Title: Answer to Mother is the battle over?

First Line: Yes, my boy, the battle's over

Harding B 18(18)

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Edition - Bod4242

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Artists:  E.A. Sparks

Date  1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan ... 38 & 60 Chatham St. N.Y.

Notes:  Border: The trapper. Coloured.


Ballad - Roud Number: V1219

Title: The age of progress

First Line: The age of giant progress

Harding B 18(2)

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Edition - Bod4243

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan ... 60 Chatham St. N.Y.

Notes:  Border: Ethiopian. Coloured.


Ballad - Roud Number: 4252

Title: Aint I glad to get out of the wilderness

First Line: Way down south in Beaver Creek

Themes:  Blackface minstrelsy

Harding B 18(6)

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Edition - Bod4244

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Artists:  Sparks

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher, 60 Chatham Street, New-York

Notes:  Border: The fountain.


Ballad - Roud Number: 7950

Title: Annie of the vale

First Line: The young stars are glowing

Authors:  Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864

Harding B 18(15)

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Edition - Bod4245

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. 38 Chatham St. N.Y.

Notes:  Border: Kissing cupids. Coloured.


Ballad - Roud Number: V3135

Title: Answer of Katy Darling

First Line: Oh, in heaven will you meet your Katy Darling

Harding B 18(16)

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Edition - Bod4246

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher, 60 Chatham Street, New-York

Notes:  Border: Clown.


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V9622

Title: Any one will do

First Line: A maiden, once, of certain age

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V10508

Title: Mine pipe and cup

First Line: Yon clouds are plack above

Themes:  Smoking

Harding B 18(19)

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Edition - Bod4247

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher ... 60 Chatham str. New-York

Notes:  Border: Musical instruments. Coloured.


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V21071

Title: As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow

First Line: As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V972

Title: Oh! breathe not his name

First Line: Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade

Harding B 18(20)

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Edition - Bod4248

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher, 54 Chatham Street, New-York

Notes:  Border: Comic heads.


Ballad - Roud Number: 266

Title: The banks of Claudy

First Line: It was on a summers morning all in the month of May

Harding B 18(24)

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Edition - Bod4249

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher, 54 Chatham str. New-York

Notes:  Border: Comic heads.


Ballad - Roud Number: 148

Title: The banks of sweet Dundee

First Line: It is of a farmer's daughter, so beautiful I'm told

Harding B 18(25)

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Edition - Bod4250

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher ... 60 Chatham str. New-York

Notes:  Border: Musical instruments. Coloured.


Ballad - Roud Number: 13749

Title: Banks of the blue Moselle

First Line: When the glow-worm glids [sic] the elfin bower

Harding B 18(26)

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Edition - Bod4251

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher ... No. 54 Chatham St. N.Y.

Notes:  Border: Military cupid.


Ballad

Title: Black ey'd Mary

First Line: I'm lonesome since I crossed the saes

Tune: The girl I left behind me

Harding B 18(41)

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Edition - Bod4252

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher ... 60 Chatham St. N.Y.

Notes:  Border: Military cupid. Coloured. Harding B 18(591) is another issue.


Ballad - Roud Number: V9807

Title: Bashful young man

First Line: They say I shall get over it, but no, I never can

Harding B 18(28)

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Edition - Bod4253

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan ... 38 & 60 Chatham St. N.Y.

Notes:  Border: Yankee pedlar. Coloured.


Ballad - Roud Number: V29537

Title: The batchelor

First Line: The batchelor sits in is [sic] dreary room

Themes:  Bachelors

Harding B 18(29)

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Edition - Bod4254

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:  Border: Military cupid. Harding B 18(254) is another issue.


Ballad - Roud Number: 13942

Title: Hot codlins

First Line: A little old woman her living got

Authors:  Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833

Performers:  Pastor, Tony, 1837-1908

Themes:  Drinking - womenStreet tradersFood

Harding B 18(253)

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Edition - Bod4255

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher ... No. 54 Chatham Street, N.Y.

Notes:  Border: Ship (variant). With additional scenes of firemen and soldiers on parade.


Ballad - Roud Number: V1224

Title: Battle of Bull-Run

First Line: Our gallant soldiers they are gone and left their friends to mourn

Themes:  Soldiers

Harding B 18(31)

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Harding B 18(592)

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Edition - Bod4256

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. 38 Chatham St. N.Y.

Notes:  Border: Ethiopian. Coloured.


Ballad - Roud Number: V21877

Title: Beauteous Lizzie Fane

First Line: You ask me why my joy has flown

Authors:  Holder, E.G.B.

Performers:  Bryant's and Christy's MinstrelsBryant's MinstrelsChristy Minstrels

Harding B 18(32)

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Edition - Bod4257

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Artists:  Sparks

Date  1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher ... 38 & 60 Chatham St. N.Y.

Notes:  Border: The fountain. Coloured.


Ballad - Roud Number: V7219

Title: Be kind to each other

First Line: Be kind to each other

Harding B 18(36)

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Edition - Bod4258

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Artists:  E.A. Sparks

Date  1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher ... 38 & 60 Chatham Street, N.Y.

Notes:  Border: The trapper.


Ballad - Roud Number: V12003

Title: Bessie Lane

First Line: 'Twas a neat little cottage, where my Bessie used to dwell

Tune: Nelly Gray

Harding B 18(38)

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Edition - Bod4259

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher ... 54 Chatham Street, N.Y.

Notes:  Border: Military cupid.


Ballad - Roud Number: 560

Title: Black ey'd Susan

First Line: All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd

Authors:  Gay, John, 1685-1732

Harding B 18(43)

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Edition - Bod4260

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. 38 Chatham St. N.Y.

Notes:  Border: Ship.


Ballad - Roud Number: V9216

Title: A bold brave crew Song of the sea

First Line: A bold brave crew and an ocean blue

Themes:  Sailors

Harding B 18(49)

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Edition - Bod4261

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher ... 60 Chatham St. N.Y.

Notes:  Border: Ship. Coloured.


Ballad - Roud Number: 1185

Title: The bonny light horseman

First Line: You wives, maids and widows, I pray give attention

Themes:  Women soldiers

Harding B 18(55)

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Edition - Bod4262

Imprint Names:  De Marsan, H.

Imprint Locations:  New York, N.Y.

Date  c.1860

Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher ... 54 Chatham St. N.Y.

Notes:  Border: Horned imp.


Ballad - Roud Number: 349

Title: Bonaparte on St. Helena

First Line: Bony, he is gone from the wars of all fighting

Subjects:  Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

Harding B 18(51)

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