Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, & 3, Monmouth court, 7 Dials
Notes: Harding B 7(39) is another issue.
Title: God Rest You
First Line: God rest you merry gentlemen
Themes: Christmas
Title: Portuguese hymn
First Line: Ye faithful triumphant
Title: Christians Awake
First Line: Christians awake! salute the happy morn
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: London: Printed and published by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth- court, 7 Dials
Title: The cottager's daughter. A favourite song
First Line: Ah! tell me ye swains, have you seen my Pastora
Title: The green-wood shade
First Line: To an arbor of woodbine ye both shall be led
Title: The forsaken shepherdess
First Line: Beneath some hoary mountain
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: Oh! 'tis love
First Line: Oh! 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love
Title: A dawn of hope
First Line: A dawn of hope my soul revives
Title: [None]
First Line: A damsel stood to watch the fight
Performers: Bradshaw, Ann Maria, 1801-1862
Title: The broom of Cowden-knows
First Line: When summer comes, the swains on Tweed
Title: A favourite song
First Line: Softly sound the martial trumpet
Title: Liberty
First Line: Since ev'ry charm on earth combines
Themes: Liberty
Title: Home! sweet home!
First Line: Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Performers: Bradshaw, Ann Maria, 1801-1862
Title: Loch-Eroch side
First Line: As I came by Loch-Eroch side
Title: The slave
First Line: Sons of freedom! hear my story
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Slavery
Title: The mermaid's song
First Line: Now the dancing sun-beams play
Title: Love among the roses
First Line: Young Love flew to the Paphian bower
Title: The cottager's daughter
First Line: Down in yon valley my father does dwell
Title: Where is my Lubin
First Line: Ah! where is my Lubin? ye songsters ah where!
Performers: Bland, Maria Theresa, 1769-1838
Title: Chorus of huntsmen in Der Freishutz [sic]
First Line: What equals on earth the delight of the hunsman [sic]
Authors: Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826
Themes: Hunting
Title: [None]
First Line: O had I been by fate decreed
Attributation: Sung in Love in a village
Title: [None]
First Line: Here we meet too soon to part
Attributation: The words from Clare's poems
Authors: Clare, John, 1793-1864
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Parody on the Rose-bud of summer
First Line: When gooseberries grow on the stem of a daisy
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Title: Health to the ladies
First Line: Oh! woman, dear woman, the charm of our life
Themes: Women
Title: The rose of Ardee
First Line: When first to this country a stranger I came
Title: The three flies
First Line: There were three flies, once on a time
Title: My heart's true blue
First Line: I ne'er will leave my native shore
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Title: Green grow the rashes
First Line: There's nought but care on ev'ry han'
Authors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Title: The sailor's tear
First Line: He leap'd into the boat
Themes: Sailors
Title: When a little farm we keep
First Line: He. When a little farm we keep
Themes: Farmers
Title: Oh the moment was sad
First Line: Oh! the moment was sad when my love and I parted
Title: A herring in salt
First Line: I ha'e laid a herring in salt
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: The glasses sparkle on the board
First Line: The glasses sparkle on the board
Themes: Drinking
Title: The wounded hussar
First Line: Alone on the banks of the dark rolling Danube
Authors: Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Follow, follow, over mountain
First Line: Follow, follow, over mountain
Title: Meet me by moonlight
First Line: Meet me by moonlight alone
Title: I'd be a butterfly
First Line: I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower
Authors: Bayly, N.T.H. (Nathaniel Thomas Haynes), 1797-1839
Title: The Red-cross knight
First Line: Blow, warder blow thy sounding horn
Themes: Crusaders
Title: When the southern breezes
First Line: When the southern breezes play
Title: Hark thro' the woods, &c
First Line: Hark! thro' the woods the rising sound
Themes: Hunting
Title: Some lilies in a valley grew
First Line: Some lilies in a valley grew
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed and Sold by Jas. Catnach, Monmouth-Court, Seven Dials
Title: The king and countrynan [sic]
First Line: There was an old chap in the west country
Title: Harp and lute
First Line: I give thee all, I can no more
Title: Poor Mary Anne
First Line: Here, below the green turf, sleepeth
Title: Adventures in a steam boat
First Line: Oh, what a row, what a rumpus and a rioting
Themes: Excursions , Steamships
Title: By dimpled brook
First Line: By dimpled brook, and fountain brim
Title: The goddess Diana
First Line: Hark the goddess Diana
Themes: Hunting
Title: The banks of Banna. A favourite song
First Line: Shepherds I have lost my love
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: The flag of reform
First Line: All hail! to old England, to Britons all hail
Subjects: William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Title: We met
First Line: We met -- 'twas in a crowd -- and I thought he would shun me
Authors: Bayly, N.T.H. (Nathaniel Thomas Haynes), 1797-1839
Title: Our patriot king
First Line: Fill high to the brim, and let this be the toast
Subjects: William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Title: The evening star
First Line: At close of day, when evening star
Title: The bloom is on the rye
First Line: My pretty Jane my dearest Jane
Authors: Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
Title: All the lads in the village come wooing to me
First Line: While the girls of our village are dressing and gadding
Title: What a shocking bad hat
First Line: You lads and you lasses come listen to me
Themes: Countryman in London
Title: Green hills of Tyrol
First Line: Green hills of Tyrol! again I see
Themes: Tyrol, the
Title: My pretty page
First Line: Florence. My pretty page look out afar
Title: Away, away to the mountain's brow
First Line: Away, away to the mountain's brow
Performers: Waylett, Harriet, 1798-1851
Title: Listen! dear Fanny
First Line: Listen! dear Fanny, oh! listen to me
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Title: Hurrah for the bonnets of blue
First Line: Here's a health to them that's awa
Authors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Title: Chanting Benny, or the Batch of ballads
First Line: When quite a babe my parents said
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Title: Begone dull care
First Line: Begone dull care, I pray thee begone from me
Title: Sich a getting out of bed
First Line: Oh, is it not most strange to think
Themes: Marriage
Title: Biddy, the basket woman
First Line: If ever you go to London town
Themes: Street traders
Title: I've journey'd over many lands
First Line: I've journey'd over many lands
Title: The gallant sailor
First Line: Farewell thou dear & gallant sailor
Themes: Sailors
Title: The braes of Ballenden
First Line: Beneath a green shade, a lovely young swain
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: Drink to me only with thine eyes
First Line: Drink to me only with thine eyes
Title: The dark-hair'd girl
First Line: My dark-hair'd girl, thy ringlets deck
Title: All round my hat
First Line: All round my hat I vears a green villow
Themes: Street traders
Title: Burlington bay
First Line: The rain fell in torrents, the wind whistled shrill
Themes: Shipwreck
Title: Pretty Susan the pride of Kildare
First Line: When first from sea I landed, I had a roving mind
Title: We have liv'd and lov'd together
First Line: We have liv'd and lov'd together
Authors: Jefferys, Charles, 1807-1865
Title: Forget not your soldier
First Line: Forget not your soldier, he'll ne'er forget you
Title: Lovely Jean
First Line: Of a' the airts the wind can blaw
Title: My Henry is gone
First Line: Oh! green are the groves where with Henry I stray'd
Title: Oh! was I to blame to love her
First Line: Oh was I to blame to love her?
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Title: The pirates bride
First Line: Good bye my love, good bye, my bark is on the bay
Themes: Piracy
Title: How, when, and where
First Line: Oh, tell me when and tell me where
Title: Gentle moon
First Line: Day has gone down on the Baltic's broad billow
Title: Woodland maid
First Line: The woodland maid my beauty's queen
Title: The blackbird
First Line: 'Twas on a bank of daisies sweet
Title: Farmer's boy
First Line: The sun went down beyond yon hills
Themes: Farmers , Agricultural laborers
Title: The young May moon
First Line: The young May moon is beaming, love
Title: Where the bee sucks
First Line: Where the bee sucks, there lurk I
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: Life in London; or the Sprees of Tom and Jerry
First Line: Come all ye swells & sporting blades who love to see good fun
Subjects: London (England)
Title: Ere around the huge oak
First Line: Ere around the huge oak that o'ershadows yon mill
Title: Meet me by moonlight
First Line: Meet me by moonlight alone
Title: Follow, follow, over mountain
First Line: Follow, follow, over mountain
Title: The wounded hussar
First Line: Alone on the banks of the dark rolling Danube
Authors: Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844
Themes: Soldiers
Title: When the southern breezes
First Line: When the southern breezes play
Title: The hunter's signal horn
First Line: The hunters signal horn is sounding
Themes: Hunting
Title: A rose tree
First Line: A rose tree in full bearing
Authors: O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833
Title: Some lilies in a valley grew
First Line: Some lilies in a valley grew
Title: I'd be a butterfly
First Line: I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower
Authors: Bayly, N.T.H. (Nathaniel Thomas Haynes), 1797-1839
Title: The Red-cross knight
First Line: Blow, warder blow thy sounding horn
Themes: Crusaders
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth Court, 7 Dials
Title: The bay of Biscay, O!
First Line: Loud roar'd the dreadful thunder
Authors: Cherry, A. (Andrew), 1762-1812
Themes: Shipwreck
Title: The Tartar drum
First Line: Row thy bark my gallant lover
Title: The sailor's allegory
First Line: Life's like a ship in constant motion
Authors: Carey, George Saville, 1743-1807
Title: The shipwreck'd sailor
First Line: While near approaching, homeward bound
Themes: Shipwreck
Title: Glorious king of England
First Line: You Britons all, wherever you be
Tune: The king of the Cannibal islands
Subjects: William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Title: O! they march'd thro' the town
First Line: O! they march'd thro' the town with their banners so gay
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Sweet carols of love
First Line: Now summer aporoaches [sic] dull winter recedes
Title: Follow the drum
First Line: 'Twas in the merry month of May
Themes: Soldiers
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-court
Title: Bonny brave Scotland
First Line: Where is the land which Scotland surpasses
Performers: Paton, Mary Ann, 1802-1864
Themes: Scotland
Title: Blest as the immortal, &c
First Line: Blest as the immortal gods is he
Title: Death of Robin Adair
First Line: Now he is dead and gone, Robin Adair
Title: She's fail'd in her truth
First Line: And has she then fail'd in her truth
Performers: Sinclair, Miss
Title: Return my Joey
First Line: When Joe first woo'd me for his bride
Tune: Love's a tyrant
Title: [None]
First Line: Be mine dear maid this faithful heart
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: The Rose that blooms for ever
First Line: Oh! could this tortur'd heart but speak
Title: [None]
First Line: Hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Gallant troubadour
First Line: Glowing with love on fire for fame
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: March! march! a favourite song
First Line: March! march! Ettrick and Teviotdale!
Authors: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: The white cockade
First Line: My love was born in Aberdeen
Title: Bedlam city. Altered from the vulgar ballad
First Line: Down by Bedlam I walk'd one ev'ning
Title: My Lowland queen
First Line: Now spring has deck'd the fields in green
Title: The pilgrim. Far over land
First Line: Far over land, far over wave, a pilgrim am I roaming
Title: Willy of the Green
First Line: On Tay's sweet pleasant banks, how happy have I stray'd
Title: Donald of Dundee
First Line: Young Donald is the blithest lad
Title: The lass of Hazel-Dean
First Line: Beneath a milk-white hawthorn tree
Title: O'er the water to Charlie
First Line: Come boat me o'er, come row me o'er
Title: The minstrel boy
First Line: The minstrel boy to the wars is gone
Authors: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: Soldier's gratitude
First Line: Whate'er my fate, where'er I roam
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Bow thy head thou lily pale
First Line: Bow thy head thou lily pale
Title: The adieu
First Line: Adieu ye streams that smoothly flow
Title: Little soldier
First Line: I'm a merry little soldier
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Scots song
First Line: A Highland lad my love was born
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Notes: Harding B 36(16) is cropped along top edge.
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Notes: Harding B 11(380) is another impression
Title: The bold pedlar and Robin Hood
First Line: There chanced to be a pedlar bold
Subjects: Robin Hood (legendary character)
Title: Colin stole my heart away
First Line: The fields were green, the hills were gay
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, 3, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Notes: Harding B 11(2219) is another issue with different illustrations.
Title: Love lies asleep in the rose
First Line: The lady-bird skims o'er the woodbine
Title: Pretty star of the night
First Line: The daylight has long been sunk under the billow
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2 Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: Arthur O'Bradley's wedding
First Line: Come, neighbours, and listen a while
Themes: Weddings
Notes: Firth b.25(78); numbered in MS.: 407
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Notes: Harding B 11(3642) is another issue.
Title: The stage of life
First Line: Good people all I pray draw near
Themes: Religion
Title: The mermaid
First Line: On Friday morning as we set sail
Themes: Shipwreck
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth Court, 7 Dials, London
Title: Blue-eyed Mary or, the Victim of seduction
First Line: In a cottage embosom'd within a deep shade
Themes: Prostitution
Title: The chace of the hare
First Line: On a bright sunny morn did the huntsman prepare
Themes: Hunting
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Notes: Harding B 11(3073) is another issue.
Title: Poor dog Tray
First Line: On the green banks of Shannon, when Shelah was nigh
Authors: Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844
Subjects: Ireland
Themes: Dogs
Title: Our sheep shearing over
First Line: Our sheep shearing over surround the gay board
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Themes: Agricultural laborers , Rural society
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth Court, 7 Dials, London
Title: We met
First Line: We met, -- twas in a crowd -- and I thought he would shun me
Authors: Bayly, N.T.H. (Nathaniel Thomas Haynes), 1797-1839
Title: I stood amid the glittering throng
First Line: I stood amid the glittering throng
Notes: Preceded by an extract from The Morning Herald.
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, & 3, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: The new gipsy laddy
First Line: Of a rich young lady I'm going to tell
Themes: Courtship - difference in social status
Title: The new riggs of the races
First Line: Come listen awhile and a story I'll tell
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouta-court [sic], 7 Dials
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Johnson Ballads 158.
Title: Our cottage lay distant a mile
First Line: One evening of late as young Colin I met
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth Court, 7 Dials, London
Title: Pretty Peggy of Derby
First Line: There was a regiment of Irish dragoous [sic]
Title: The beautiful maid
First Line: When absent from her my soul holds most dear
Title: The fisherman's boy
First Line: As along yon sea side I chanc'd for to stray
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court
Title: Gosport beach
First Line: On Gosport beach I landed
Subjects: London (England)
Themes: Merchants , Prostitution , Lovers reunited , Cruel parents
Title: The pigeon
First Line: Why tarries my love? Ah! where does he rove
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(3328).
Title: Young William of the royal waggon train
First Line: One lovely morning I was walking
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(3878).
Title: The trial of Willy Reily for running away with coolen bawn
First Line: O rise up Willy Reily, and come away with me
Themes: Abduction
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, London
Notes: The epitaph in the illustration reads: J. Catnach, printer, London
Title: Lines on a remarkable circumstance connected with Bretton hall
First Line: At Bretton hall, near Wakefield, known so well
