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Edition - Bod14010

Imprint Names:  Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  Leeds

Date  c.1855

Imprint: Sold Wholesale and Retail by J. Beaumont, 176, York-street, Leeds


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 4621

Title: Days when I was hard up

First Line: In the days when I was hard up

Themes:  Poverty

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V1106

Title: Share my cottage

First Line: Oh, share my cottage, gentle maid

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 13823

Title: Thou art gone from my gaze

First Line: Thou art gone from my gaze, like a beutiful [sic] dream

Harding B 11(812)

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Edition - Bod2019

Imprint Names:  Beaumont, J.Kay, W.

Imprint Locations:  Leeds[s.l.]

Imprint: Printed and Sold, Wholesale & Retail, by W.M. Kay, 34, Duke- street; also, Sold Wholesale and Retail, by J. Beaumont, 176, York-street, Leeds


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 6954

Title: The low back car

First Line: When first I saw my Peggy, 'twas on a market day

Authors:  Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V15345

Title: The pauper's drive

First Line: There's a grim horse hearse in a jolly round trot

Authors:  Noel, T.

Themes:  Poverty

Harding B 11(2253)

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Edition - Bod7017

Imprint Names:  Beaumont, J.Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  LeedsManchester

Date  between 1850 and 1899

Imprint: [T. Pears]on, Printer, Oldham Road, Manchester. Sold by J. Beaumont, Leeds

Series Identifier: 385


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V2164

Title: What man would be without a woman

First Line: Tho' much I've said and sung, about a woman's tongue

Themes:  Marriage - men

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V5494

Title: Over the water my Jemmy is gone

First Line: Over the water my Jemmy is gone

Subjects:  Scotland

Themes:  Seduction and abandonmentShipwreck

3rd Ballad

Title: False one I love thee still

First Line: Still so gently o'er me stealing

Authors:  Romani, F.

Firth b.26(161)

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Edition - Bod8175

Imprint Names:  Beaumont, J.Pearson, T.

Imprint Locations:  LeedsManchester

Imprint: [Pearso]n, Printer, 31, Oldham Road, Manchester. Sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York Street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 463


Ballad - Roud Number: 1104

Title: Outward bound

First Line: To the Liverpool docks we bid adieu

Subjects:  Malabar

Themes:  Sailors

Firth c.12(159)

Notes:  Imprint defaced Slip


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Edition - Bod1210

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 26, Goulden-street, Oldham Road, Manchester; sold by John Beaumont, 176, York-street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 147


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 875

Title: Oyster girl

First Line: As I was walking in London street

Themes:  Street traders

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 23101

Title: If I had a thousand a year

First Line: Oh! if I had a thousand a year, Gaffer Green

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 359

Title: Ellen the fair

First Line: Fair Ellen one morning from her cottage had stray'd

Firth c.26(18)

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Edition - Bod1221

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  c.1850

Imprint: Printed & Sold by John O. Bebbington, 22 Goulden St, Oldham Road, Manchester; also by J. Beaumont 176, York Street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 70


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V659

Title: England for ever, the land boys we live in

First Line: Since our foes to invade us have long been preparing

Subjects:  Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873

Themes:  French invasion scares, 1852

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V1106

Title: Share my cottage

First Line: Oh, share my cottage gentle maid

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V722

Title: We met

First Line: We met, 'twas in a crowd

Authors:  Bayly, N.T.H. (Nathaniel Thomas Haynes), 1797-1839

Firth c.26(61)

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Edition - Bod1226

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 26, Goulden Street, Manchester: sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York Street, Leeds


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V11672

Title: The timid hare

First Line: The trees are all bare not a leaf to be seen

Themes:  Winter

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13451

Title: The wonderful grey horse

First Line: My horse is white, although at first he was bay

Firth c.26(78)

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Edition - Bod1228

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1858 and 1861

Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 31, Oldham Road, Manchester, sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York Street, Leeds

Notes:  2806 b.10(20) is another issue.

Series Identifier: 384


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V716

Title: Grand conversation on O'Connell arose

First Line: Come all you sons of Erin's land and mourn the loss of noble Dan

Subjects:  O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V2045

Title: My own sweet native vale

First Line: I would not be a fairy light

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: V292

Title: Bonny English rose

First Line: Old England's emblem is the rose

Subjects:  Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901

Firth c.26(87)

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Edition - Bod5453

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1858 and 1861

Imprint: J. Bebbington, Printer, 31 Oldham Road Manchester. Sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York St., Leeds

Series Identifier: 420


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V1895

Title: Teddy's ghost

First Line: Just listen around and to you I'll tell

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V7742

Title: Merry little fat man

First Line: There is a little man, dressed all in grey

2806 b.11(220)

Notes:  Imprint defaced


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2806 c.16(198)

Notes:  Imprint defaced


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Harding B 11(3749)

Notes:  Imprint defaced


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Edition - Bod5686

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: J.O. Bebbington, Printer, 26 Goulden-street, Oldham-road, Manchester, sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York-street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 355


1st Ballad

Title: Soldier's return

First Line: The wars for many months were o'er

Themes:  Soldiers

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13900

Title: Soldier's tear

First Line: Upon the hill he turn'd, to take a last fond look

Themes:  Soldiers

Firth c.14(375)

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Johnson Ballads 1879

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Edition - Bod5760

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: [Bebbington,] Printer, [26, Goul]den-street, Oldham Road, Manchester; [sold by John Beaumont, 176, York-street, Leeds]

Series Identifier: 33


Ballad - Roud Number: 9223

Title: Country gaby

First Line: Bein tired o' whoam, and feeding th' flock

Notes:  Verse and prose

Themes:  Rural society

Firth c.26(166)

Notes:  Imprint defaced. See Firth c.26(18)


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Firth c.26(304)

Notes:  Imprint defaced. See Firth c.26(18)


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Edition - Bod5761

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: J.O. Bebbington, Printer, 26, Goulden-street, Oldham Road, Manchester, sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York Street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 346


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 4376

Title: Cork leg

First Line: A tale I tell now without any flam

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V15037

Title: Do you really think she did

First Line: I waited till twilight, and yet she did not come

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 660

Title: Blackbird & thrush

First Line: How pleasant and delightful is the bright summer's morn

Firth c.26(295)

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Edition - Bod5762

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 26, Goulden-street, Oldham Road, Manchester; sold by John Beaumont, 176, York-street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 266


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V15252

Title: What will they say in England!

First Line: What will they say in England? when there the story's told

Themes:  Crimean War, 1853-1856

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V34387

Title: Receipts for a cold

First Line: If you listen to me without any pelf

Firth c.26(46)

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Edition - Bod5768

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 26, Goulden-street, Oldham Road, Manchester; sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York-street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 221


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 1493

Title: Effects of love

First Line: Young lovers all I pray draw near

Themes:  Seduction and abandonment

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V4823

Title: This London agrah! is the devil's own shop

First Line: From great Londonderry to London so merry

Subjects:  London (England)

Themes:  Countryman in London

Harding B 11(1048)

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Edition - Bod5779

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 26, Goulden-street, Oldham Road, Manchester, sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York-street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 262


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V5104

Title: Flounce to your gown

First Line: Of all the gay fashions we daily do see

Themes:  Fashions

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13880

Title: The old folks at home!

First Line: Way down upon the Swanee ribber

Authors:  Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864

Themes:  Blackface minstrelsy

Harding B 11(1232)

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Johnson Ballads 1868

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Edition - Bod5829

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 26, Goulden-street, Oldham-road, Manchester; sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York-street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 260


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V748

Title: Lovely Phoebe the pride of Dundee

First Line: In the lowlands of Scotland fair Phoebe did dwell

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13883

Title: Rat catcher's daughter

First Line: In Westminster not long ago

Harding B 11(2232)

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Edition - Bod5839

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 26, Goulden Street Manchester; sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York Street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 207


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V9484

Title: Price of my pig

First Line: October the first, a day sure the worst

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V582

Title: Duffy's advice to his country

First Line: You sons of Granue that wanders through Britannia

Subjects:  Ireland

Harding B 11(3170)

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Edition - Bod5893

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: J.O. Bebbington, Printer, 26, Goulden Street, Oldham Road, Manchester; [...] J. Beaumont, 176, York Street, Leeds

Notes:  Firth c.26(40) is another impression with a different imprint Firth c.26(40) is another impression with a different imprint

Series Identifier: 322


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 1010

Title: Doran's ass

First Line: One Paddy Doyle liv'd near Killarney

Themes:  IrishDrunkenness

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13827

Title: Tired soldier

First Line: The tired soldier, bold and brave

Themes:  Soldiers

Harding B 11(946)

Notes:  Imprint defaced


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Edition - Bod5922

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1858 and 1861

Imprint: Printed by John Bebbington, 31, Oldham Road, Manchester; and sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York-street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 417


Ballad - Roud Number: 182

Title: Young Edwin in the Lowlands low

First Line: Come all you feeling lovers and listen to my song

Harding B 15(394a)

Notes:  Slip


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Johnson Ballads 1882Aa

Notes:  Slip

Edition - Bod5924

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: [Bebbington], Printer, [2]6, Goulden-street, Oldham-road, Manchester, sold by J. [Beaumont, 176, York Street, Leeds]

Series Identifier: 243


Ballad - Roud Number: V1617

Title: Henpeck'd club

First Line: Now I hope you will have pity on the picture of a gho[st]

Themes:  Domestic strife

Harding B 16(111d)

Notes:  Imprint defaced Slip. Cropped.


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Edition - Bod6019

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 26, Goulden Street Oldham Road Manchester; sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York Street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 14


1st Ballad - Roud Number: V6007

Title: Slap-up lodgings

First Line: When first to town I came, and at the railway landed

Notes:  Verse and prose

Themes:  Countryman in town

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V26510

Title: I should like to be a policeman

First Line: Some folks may talk about a trade

Themes:  Police

Johnson Ballads 1878

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Edition - Bod6686

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: J.O. Bebbington, Printer, 26 Goulden street, Oldham road, Manchester, sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 349


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 12612

Title: Nobby head of hair

First Line: You've called on me [to] sing a song I'll try what I can do

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13783

Title: Harry Bluff

First Line: When a boy, Harry Bluff left his friends and his home

Themes:  Sailors

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 379

Title: Green brooms

First Line: There was an old man, and he lived in the west

Themes:  Street traders

Firth b.25(38)

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Edition - Bod6866

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  c.1850

Imprint: Printed and Sold by John O. Bebbington, 22 Goulden St, Oldham Road, Manchester; also by J. Beaumont 176, York Street, Leeds

Series Identifier: 107


1st Ballad - Roud Number: 12882

Title: Cot where I was born

First Line: I've roamed beneath a foreign sky

Themes:  Emigration

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13784

Title: Happy land

First Line: Happy land! whate'er my fate in life may be

Themes:  Emigration

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 1627

Title: Erin go bragh

First Line: My name's Duncan Cambell, from the shire of Argyle

Themes:  Emigration - IrishIrish - Scotland

Firth c.26(15)

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Edition - Bod2003

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 26, Goulden street, Oldham Road, Manchester, sold by J. Beaumont 176, York-st., Leeds

Series Identifier: 248


Ballad - Roud Number: 4

Title: Lord Thomas & fair Eleanor

First Line: Lord Thomas he was a bold forester

2806 c.16(298)

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Harding B 11(2210)

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Edition - Bod2772

Imprint Names:  Bebbington, J.O.Beaumont, J.

Imprint Locations:  ManchesterLeeds

Date  between 1855 and 1858

Imprint: Bebbington, Printer, 26, Goulden-street, Oldham Road, Manchester; sold by J. Beaumont, 176, York-street, Leeds

Notes:  Slip. Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Firth c.14(377)


Ballad - Roud Number: V359

Title: Cigars & cogniac

First Line: He who wears a regimental suit

Themes:  Soldiers

Harding B 15(46a)

Notes:  Slip.


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