Broadside Ballads Online

from the Bodleian Libraries



Filter your search:

Themes:
Pastoral - 3
Domestic relations - 2
Women - 2
American Revolution, 1775-1783 - 1
Ballads - 1

(show more)

Dates:
1750-1800 - 8
1800-1850 - 11
Subjects:
Agnew, Andrew, Sir, 1793-1849 - 1
Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792 - 1
Scotland - 1
Collections:
Bodleian Harding - 21
Bodleian Rare Books - 9
Bodleian John Johnson - 6
Bodleian Firth - 5
Authors:
Anderson, Mr. - 1
Arrowsmith, Mr. - 1
Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833 - 1
Hook, James, 1746-1827 - 1
Parke, W.T. - 1

(show more)

Performers:
Wrighten, Mary Ann (Mrs. James Wrighten), 1756-1796 - 6
Mountain, Rosemond, 1768-1841 - 4
Vernon, Mr. - 3
Benson, Mr. - 2
Hudson, Mrs. - 2

(show more)

Printers/Publishers:
[s.n.] - 16
Evans, J. - 6
Pitts, J. - 5
Catnach, J. - 4
Davenport, J. - 1

(show more)

Locations:
Vauxhall Gardens - 34
London - 18
[s.l.] - 16
Drury Lane Theatre - 1

Search again:

Results:

Your current search: Location: Vauxhall Gardens

34 results found Page 1 of 2  Next>>

Edition - Bod4851

Imprint Names:  Catnach, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1813 and 1838

Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V25222

Title: Bread and cheese, and kisses

First Line: One night my sweetheart came to woo

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V2139

Title: The new national patent steam washing company

First Line: Dukes, bishops, earls, lords, they have all got a share

Tune: Noddin

Performers:  Taylor, C.

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

Themes:  Laundrymen

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V1243

Title: The hearty good fellow

First Line: I am a hearty good fellow

4th Ballad - Roud Number: V3731

Title: The full new moon

First Line: The full new moon is old my love

5th Ballad - Roud Number: V2891

Title: Just like love

First Line: Just like love is yonder rose

Authors:  Strangford, Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, Viscount, 1780-1855

6th Ballad

Title: [None]

First Line: Nurse of smiles! come, soothing hope

7th Ballad - Roud Number: 18858

Title: Birds of a feather

First Line: Our life's a day's journey to you I will say

8th Ballad - Roud Number: 1040

Title: Among the green bushes, &c

First Line: As I walk'd through the meadows one morning in May

9th Ballad - Roud Number: 8476

Title: Blink o'er the burn

First Line: Young Sandy is a dowdy lad

10th Ballad - Roud Number: V23443

Title: Lira, lira, la

First Line: Little thinks the townsman's wife

11th Ballad - Roud Number: V18660

Title: The pigs among the roses

First Line: The pigs in Gaffer's garden stray'd

12th Ballad - Roud Number: 250

Title: Jock o' Hazel Dean

First Line: Why weep ye by the tide lady?

Authors:  Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832

Performers:  Paton, Mary Ann, 1802-1864

13th Ballad

Title: A favourite song

First Line: Tho' I am now a very little lad

Tune: My love was born in Aberdeen

14th Ballad - Roud Number: 8516

Title: My ain kind deary, O

First Line: Will ye gang o'er the lee-rig

Performers:  Broadhurst, Mr.

15th Ballad - Roud Number: V1152

Title: Hole in the ballad

First Line: Your laughter I'll try to provoke

Authors:  Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833

Themes:  Ballads

16th Ballad - Roud Number: V14806

Title: Brixton in a morning. A parody on Shakespeare's Hark, the lark

First Line: Hark the kids their darbies ring!

Johnson Ballads fol. 30

Notes:  Title cropped. One ballad has been cut out from the right hand column.


Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod5742

Imprint Names:  Davenport, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1800 and 1802

Imprint: Printed and Sold by J. Davenport, No. 6, Georges Court, St. John Lane, West Smithfield, London


Ballad - Roud Number: V9908

Title: Three weeks after marriage

First Line: Willy, after courting long

Performers:  Mountain, Rosemond, 1768-1841

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

References:

ESTC: T195822

Themes:  Domestic relations

Firth c.20(23)

Notes:  Slip


Click image to view larger


Harding B 22(293)

Notes:  Slip


Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod221

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: V8471

Title: The rosy dawn

First Line: When primrose sweet bedecks the year

Authors:  Hook, James, 1746-1827

Performers:  Wrighten, Mary Ann (Mrs. James Wrighten), 1756-1796

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

Harding B 22(254)

Notes:  Slip


Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod938

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: V26557

Title: The British sailor

First Line: The British sailor ploughs the seas

Authors:  Arrowsmith, Mr.

Performers:  Arrowsmith, Mr.

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

G.A. Surrey c.21(62)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod939

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad

Title: The meeting

First Line: To the woods I love to go

Performers:  Wrighten, Mary Ann (Mrs. James Wrighten), 1756-1796

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

G.A. Surrey c.21(61)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod940

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: 2613

Title: O dearly I love somebody

First Line: Of all the swains both far and near

Performers:  Mountain, Rosemond, 1768-1841

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

G.A. Surrey c.21(63)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod941

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: V17389

Title: Ben's departure

First Line: Ben Bowling, a true hearted tar

Performers:  Darley, Mr.

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

Edition - Bod943

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: V1270

Title: Female liberty regained

First Line: The men have long boasted an absolute sway

Performers:  Wrighten, Mary Ann (Mrs. James Wrighten), 1756-1796

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

References:

ESTC: T199730

Themes:  Women

G.A. Surrey c.21(77)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod944

Imprint Names:  Evans, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1780 and 1812

Imprint: Sold at No. 42, Long Lane


Ballad - Roud Number: V16914

Title: Catch hold on to day

First Line: As my cow I was milking just now in the vale

Performers:  Wrighten, Mary Ann (Mrs. James Wrighten), 1756-1796

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

References:

ESTC: T195508

G.A. Surrey c.21(78)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod949

Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Imprint: Printed for and sold by J. Pitts, No. 14, Great St. Andrew- street, Seven Dials


Ballad - Roud Number: V3493

Title: The sweet little girl that I love

First Line: My friends all declare that my time is mispent

Performers:  Phelps, Edmund, 1793-1794

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

G.A. Surrey c.21(80)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod6289

Imprint Names:  Evans, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1780 and 1812

Imprint: Sold at No. 42, Long Lane


Ballad - Roud Number: V20224

Title: The sweet little angel

First Line: When Jack parted from me to plough the salt deep

Performers:  Leary, Miss

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

References:

ESTC: T204707

Themes:  Sailors

G.A. Surrey c.21(79)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod2143

Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1819 and 1844

Imprint: Pitts, Printer, wholesale Toy and Marble warehouse, 6, Gt. St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V4441

Title: Nothing

First Line: When rhyming & verses at first were in fashion

Performers:  Williams, Mr.

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

2nd Ballad

Title: The queen of May

First Line: When the winter is gone and the summer is come

Themes:  Rural societyMay day

Harding B 11(2727)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod3641

Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1819 and 1844

Imprint: Pitts, Printer, wholesale Toy and Marble warehouse, 6, Gt. St. Andrews Street, Seven Dials

Notes:  Harding B 11(3322) is another issue.


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V17078

Title: The rose of affection

First Line: Of all the sweet flowers that bloom in the spring

Performers:  Benson, Mr.

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 2664

Title: Love was once a little boy

First Line: Love was once a little boy

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 4888

Title: The beautiful boy

First Line: It was now in the winter about six in the morn

Harding B 11(3323)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod11326

Imprint Names:  Laurie and Whittle

Imprint Locations:  London

Artists:  Cruikshank, George

Date  1813

Imprint: Published 24th August, 1813, by James Whittle and Richard Holmes Laurie, No. 53, Fleet Street, London

Series Identifier: 527


Ballad - Roud Number: V5889

Title: A day of fashion

First Line: In London's gay circle where pleasures abound

Authors:  Parke, W.T.

Performers:  Taylor, Charles

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

Notes:  Verse and prose

Themes:  Fashions

Harding B 10(35)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod12460

Imprint Names:  Catnach, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1813 and 1838

Imprint: Catnach, Printer 2 & 3, Monmouth Court, [7] Dials


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 967

Title: Paul Jones

First Line: An American frigate, call'd the Richard by name

Subjects:  Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792

Themes:  American Revolution, 1775-1783

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V1085

Title: The wandering Savoyard

First Line: Ah! hear the wandering Savoyard's tale

Tune: How, when, and where?

Performers:  Mears, Mr.

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V16136

Title: I love her, how I love her

First Line: I love her, how I love her

Harding B 11(2973)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod12495

Imprint Names:  Ryle, A. and Co.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1845 and 1859

Imprint: Ryal and Co., Printers 2 and 3, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V3791

Title: The merry gipsy band

First Line: List to the lay of a gipsy band

Themes:  Gipsies

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V4441

Title: Nothing

First Line: When rhyming & verses at first were in fashion

Performers:  Williams, Mr.

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

Harding B 11(2412)

Click image to view larger


Johnson Ballads 1107

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod13101

Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1819 and 1844

Imprint: Pitts, Printer, wholesale Toy and Marble warehouse, 6, Gt. St. Andrews Street, Seven Dials

Notes:  Harding B 11(3323) is another issue Harding B 11(3323) is another issue Harding B 11(3323) is another issue


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V17078

Title: The rose of affection

First Line: Of all the sweet flowers that bloom in the spring

Performers:  Benson, Mr.

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 2664

Title: Love was once a little boy

First Line: Love was once a little boy

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 4888

Title: The beautiful boy

First Line: It was now in the winter about six in the morn

Harding B 11(3322)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod7983

Imprint Names:  Pitts, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1819 and 1844

Imprint: Pitts printer wholesale Toy & Marble Warehouse 6, Great st Andrew street 7 Dialt [sic]


Ballad - Roud Number: 18698

Title: Pretty Polly Hopkins

First Line: Pretty pretty Polly Hopkins how do you do?

Tune: Merrily Oh!

Performers:  Tunstall, Catherine, 1796-1846Mallinson, Joseph

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

Notes:  Verse and prose

Firth b.34(242)

Notes:  Slip.


Click image to view larger


Harding B 25(1567)

Notes:  Slip.


Click image to view larger


Johnson Ballads 961

Notes:  Slip.


Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod8978

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: V3279

Title: The volunteer

First Line: A scarlet coat and smart cockade

Performers:  Incledon, Charles Benjamin, 1763-1826

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

Themes:  Soldiers

Firth c.14(318)

Notes:  Slip


Click image to view larger


Harding B 22(326)

Notes:  Slip


Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod9423

Imprint Names:  Catnach, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1813 and 1838

Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, & 3, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, and 14, Waterloo Road, (late Hills)


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 13859

Title: Kathleen O'More

First Line: The morning was fine in the month of July

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V112

Title: The Agony bill

First Line: Dear me what a change has seen our nation

Tune: Good old days of Adam and Eve

Performers:  Williams, William Henry, 1797-1846

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

Subjects:  Agnew, Andrew, Sir, 1793-1849

Themes:  Sunday

Harding B 11(1971)

Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod9463

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: V6597

Title: [None]

First Line: Farewell ye green fields, and sweet groves

Performers:  Vernon, Mr.

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

References:

ESTC: T195685

Harding B 22(370)

Notes:  Cropped at top edge. Annotated in MS. Slip. Cropped.


Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod9704

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: 298

Title: A new song, called Willy of the Dale

First Line: As thro' the fields I chanc'd to stray

Performers:  Hudson, Mrs.

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

Themes:  Pastoral

Firth c.18(10)

Notes:  Slip


Click image to view larger


Harding B 22(211)

Notes:  Slip


Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod9712

Imprint Names:  [s.n.]

Imprint Locations:  [s.l.]

Ballad - Roud Number: V29257

Title: Jockey of the green, a Scotch ballad

First Line: Of all the swain around the Tweed

Performers:  Hudson, Mrs.

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

Subjects:  Scotland

Themes:  Pastoral

Firth c.18(11)

Notes:  Slip


Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod16515

Imprint Names:  Evans, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1780 and 1812

Imprint: Sold at No. 41, Long-lane


Ballad - Roud Number: V19798

Title: The crops. A favourite song

First Line: Ye nymphs and swains

Performers:  Dignum, Charles, 1765-1827

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

References:

ESTC: T195517

Harding B 22(57)

Notes:  Slip


Click image to view larger


Edition - Bod16563

Imprint Names:  Evans, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1780 and 1812

Imprint: Sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-Lane


Ballad

Title: The sweetest flower of Yarrow

First Line: Say have you seen my Sandy fair

Authors:  Anderson, Mr.

Performers:  Mountain, Rosemond, 1768-1841

Performance Locations:  Vauxhall Gardens

References:

ESTC: T195809

Harding B 22(282)

Notes:  Slip


Click image to view larger


34 results found Page 1 of 2  Next>>

Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that can be written and read by websites and stored by the browser on your computer, tablet or smartphone. They do a number of things including allowing access to some types of content and functionality to users, and collecting anonymous user information so that site owners can monitor the performance of their sites. They are a kind of "memory" for a website that can help it respond appropriately to users and user behaviour.

Cookies on this website

This website stores cookies to remember the style (colours/fonts) preference and the ones used in Google Analytics. This anonymously tracks individual visitor behaviour on the website so that we can see how the site is being used. We only use this information for monitoring and improving our website and content for the benefit of our users (you).

More information about controlling these cookies can be found at The Bodleian Libraries and Cookies page.

You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies completely (from all websites) by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (BETA).

If you wish to have a deeper understanding about the cookies that Google uses check Cookies & Google Analytics page.

×