Imprint Names: Harkness
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: J. Harkness, Printer, 8, Water Street, Preston
Notes: 2806 c.13(103) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 139
Title: Settle fair
First Line: I'm a brisk and merry lad that likes a bit of spreeing
Themes: Fairs
Title: The garden gate
First Line: The day was spent the moon shone bright
Imprint Names: Harkness
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, 8, Water Street, Preston
Notes: The first illustration is a version of Davison catalogue No. 323; the second illustration is a version of Davison catalogue No. 110.
Series Identifier: 155
Title: The wife's lamentation
First Line: Ten years ago I married a man, he is a drunken sot
Themes: Drunkenness
Title: Gloomy winter's now awa'
First Line: Gloomy winter's now awa'
Authors: Tannahill, Robert, 1774-1810
Imprint Names: Harkness
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, 8, Water Street, Preston
Notes: Harding B 12(241) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 156
Title: Reform and repeal! or The English Radicals' plea for Ireland
First Line: Ye working men of England
Themes: Politics and government - Ireland, 19th century , Home Rule - Ireland
Title: The sailor's last adieu
First Line: My dear, take this letter -- the last I shall send
Themes: Letter-writing , Sailors - death in battle
Imprint Names: Harkness
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, printer, 8, Water Street, Preston
Series Identifier: 114
Title: In the days I went drinking, a long time ago
First Line: In the days when I went drinking
Themes: Drunkenness , Temperance
Title: Jack upon the green
First Line: 'Twas in the month of May when flowers they are seen
Themes: Seduction
Imprint Names: Harkness
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, 8, Water Street, Preston
Notes: Slip. Another edition forms part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(1222)
Title: The flare up factory girl
First Line: I'm a factory gal as you may see
Themes: Girls
Imprint Names: Harkness
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, 8, Water Street, Preston
Title: Bessy the sailor's bride
First Line: Poor Bessy was a sailor's bride
Themes: Sailors
Title: The galley slave
First Line: Oh! think on my fate, once I freedom enjoy'd
Authors: Cross, J.C. (James C.), d. 1810
Themes: Slavery - galley slaves
Imprint Names: Harkness
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, 8, Water Street, Preston
Series Identifier: 146
Title: Pretty Caroline
First Line: One morning in the month of May
Title: The mermaid, or The gallant ship
First Line: One Friday morning we set sail
Imprint Names: Harkness
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, 8, Water Street, Preston
Series Identifier: 125
Title: Emigrant's farewell to old England
First Line: As walking near the docks at Liverpool
Themes: Trade depression , Emigration
Imprint Names: Harkness
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, 8, Water Street, Preston
Notes: Harding B 13(20) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 102
Title: The great wrestling match between Jackson & Nichol
First Line: You sportsmen brave of England I hope you will attend
Themes: Wrestling
Title: Young Ramble-away
First Line: As I was a going to Birmingham fair
Themes: Soldiers
Imprint Names: Harkness
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, 8, Water Street, Preston
Notes: Harding B 11(2537) is another edition. Harding B 11(2537) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 1
Title: My gentle Isabel
First Line: They tell me thou wert chang'd & smiled
Title: Rose of Cashmere
First Line: By the flower of the valley
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: Harding B 11(1687) is another impression
Series Identifier: 851
Title: I'd choose to be a daisy
First Line: I'd choose to be a daisy
Title: Hard times come again no more
First Line: Let us pause in life's pleasures
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: Another impression appears in a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(415).
Title: Bonny Nelly Brown
First Line: O bonny Nelly Brown, I will sing a song to thee
Themes: Friendship
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: John Harkness, Printer, Church Street, Preston
Notes: Harding B 11(860) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 222
Title: The deep deep sea
First Line: O come with me my love
Title: My bounding bark
First Line: My bounding bark, I fly to thee
Themes: Sailing
Title: The jolly roving tar
First Line: It was in the town of Liverpool, all in the month of May
Subjects: Liverpool (England)
Themes: Sailors
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: 2806 c.15(278) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 280
Title: Teddy the tiler
First Line: From Dublin town the other night
Themes: Irish wakes
Title: Jolly tar
First Line: You hearts of oak that mean to try
Themes: Sailors
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: Harding B 11(618) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 65
Title: Clar de kitchen
First Line: In ole Kentuck in the arternoon
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Bannockburn, or Scot's wha ha'e wi' Wallace bled
First Line: Scots wha ha'e wi' Wallace bled
Authors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: John Harkness, Printer, 121, Church Street, Preston
Notes: 2806 c.13(64) is another edition. Firth c.16(20) is another edition of this ballad alone.
Series Identifier: 203
Title: Claughton wood poachers
First Line: Come all you men of courage bold and listen unto me
Themes: Courts and law , Poaching
Title: Peterloo
First Line: See! see! where freedom's noblest champion stands
Notes: Firth c.16(20) is another edition of this ballad alone.
Themes: Peterloo Massacre, 1819
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, 121, Church-street, Preston
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(3869).
Title: To the West
First Line: To the West, to the West, to the land of the free
Themes: Emigration
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: John Harkness, Printer, 121, Church Street, Preston
Notes: Another edition appears in a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 14(252).
Series Identifier: 223
Title: The frozen river
First Line: When winter chains from shore to shore
Notes: Slip.
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Notes: Slip.
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Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: John Harkness, Printer, Preston
Notes: Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Firth c.17(268).
Series Identifier: 626
Title: Man the life boat!
First Line: Man the life boat! Man the life boat!
Themes: Life-boats
Notes: Slip.
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Notes: Slip.
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Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: Harding B 11(1035) is another impression.
Series Identifier: 906
Title: The dying sailor at sea
First Line: Our ship was far, far on the sea
Attributation: Composed by S. Dawson
Authors: Dawson, S.
Title: No sorrow there
First Line: Come, sing to me of heaven
Themes: Death
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: Harding B 11(3383) is another issue.
Series Identifier: 854
Title: The sailor's grave
First Line: Our bark was far, far from land
Themes: Shipwreck
Title: The king and the miller of the Dee
First Line: There dwelt a miller hale and bold
Authors: Bickerstaffe, Isaac, 1735-1812
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: 2806 c.13(174) is another issue.
Series Identifier: 854
Title: The sailor's grave
First Line: Our bark was far, far from land
Themes: Sailors
Title: The king and the miller of the Dee
First Line: There dwelt a miller hale and bold
Authors: Bickerstaffe, Isaac, 1735-1812
Themes: King and subjects
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: J. Harkness, Printer, Church street, Preston
Notes: Harding B 11(1844) is another edition Harding B 11(1845) is another edition
Series Identifier: 342
Title: Jack's the lad
First Line: Our ship's in port so here I be
Themes: Sailors
Title: The London 'prentice boy
First Line: Come all you young chaps
Themes: Transported convict , Murder , Apprentices
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: John Harkness, Printer, Church Street, Preston
Notes: 2806 c.13(100) is another edition Harding B 11(1845) is another edition
Series Identifier: 342
Title: Jack's the lad
First Line: Our ship's in port so here I be
Themes: Sailors
Title: The London 'prentice boy
First Line: Come all you young chaps who live both far and near
Themes: Transported convict , Murder , Theft
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: Harding B 11(1328) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 538
Title: The girls of Lancashire
First Line: Attend you lads and lasses and a story you shall hear
Themes: Girls
Title: With my jug in one hand
First Line: With my pipe in one hand, and my jug in the other
Themes: Drinking
Title: And home I came merry at last
First Line: Sorrow's a sniviling boy
Notes: Followed by a round in three lines
