Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 7
Title: As I wandered by the brookside
First Line: As I wandered by the brookside
Notes: Harding B 15(263a) is another edition of this ballad alone.
Title: The Englishman
First Line: There's a land that bears a well known name
Authors: Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889
Subjects: England
Themes: Patriotism
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 108
Title: Poor old maidens
First Line: Four score and ten of us
Themes: Spinsters
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date [1851]
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Exhibition of all nations
First Line: Good people all of each degree
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Great exhibition, 1851
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 568
Title: The Nightingale!
First Line: My love he was a rich farmer's son
Themes: Ghosts
Title: The maid of Lanwellyn
First Line: I have no sheep on the mountain, no boat on the lake
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Notes: See Harding B 11(634) for imprint Slip. Appears, slightly variant, in a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(634)
Series Identifier: 397
Title: The false hearted lover
First Line: I courted a bonny lass many a day
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: A damsel's adventures
First Line: Men and maids give attention to what I do say
Tune: The sprig of shillelah
Themes: Marriage prospects - women , Tradesmen
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Peatt [sic], Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 114
Title: Crafty ploughboy; or The highwayman outwitted
First Line: Please to draw near and the truth I'll declare
Subjects: Yorkshire (England)
Themes: Highwaymen
Title: Carry me back to ole Virginny!
First Line: Oh, if I was only young again
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Poisoned family
First Line: Good friends far and near, come you quickly shall hear
Title: The Sicilian maid
First Line: I knew a Sicilian maid
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Pretty Caroline
First Line: One morning in the month of May, how sweetly shone the sun
Themes: Lovers reunited
Title: Hookey Walker
First Line: Forty years back this body was born
Notes: With prose introduction
Themes: Education
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Down among the dead men
First Line: Here's a health to the king and a lasting peace
Authors: Dyer, J.
Themes: Drinking
Title: Sights of --- fair!
First Line: The morning is so pleasant
Themes: Fairs
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 559
Title: New garden fields
First Line: Come all you pretty fair maids I pray now attend
Title: Fly away pretty moth
First Line: Fly away pretty moth to the shade
Notes: Johnson Ballads 1448C; Coloured illustration.
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Notes: Johnson Ballads 1448C; Coloured illustration.
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Uncle Ned's ghost
First Line: You've heard of a nigger, they call'd Uncle Ned
Themes: African Americans
Title: The Caledonian maid
First Line: Oh, say ye virgins, have you seen
Subjects: Scotland
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 382
Title: William and Phillis
First Line: Said William to young Phillis how came you here so soon
Subjects: North America
Themes: Shipwreck , Women sailors
Title: The wadering [sic] boy
First Line: I was born in the country far over the mountains
Authors: Roberts, H. Harrison
Themes: Orphans
Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth Birmingham
Notes: Slip. Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(240)
Title: Ben Bolt
First Line: Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt
Notes: The illustrations and the text are separately printed items. Slip.
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Brisk young sailor
First Line: A brisk young sailor courted me
Notes: The illustration and the text are separately printed items. Slip
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: The factory girl. A parody on Rosa May
First Line: Come all around both old and young, and listen to my song
Notes: The illustration and the text are separately printed items. Slip
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Notes: Slip. Harding B 15(102a) is another issue
Title: The fairy tempter
First Line: A fair girl was sitting in a greenwood shade
Notes: The illustrations and the text are separately printed items. Slip.
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Notes: Slip. Harding B 15(102b) is another issue
Title: The fairy tempter
First Line: A fair girl was sitting in a greenwood shade
Notes: The illustrations and the text are separately printed items. Slip.
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 588
Title: Ive parted from Annie
First Line: I've parted from Annie, but not to forget her
Notes: The illustration and the text are separately printed items. Slip
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Minnie
First Line: When the sun is high in the bright blue sky
Notes: The illustration and the text are separately printed items. Slip
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: Birmingham: Printed by W. Pratt, 82, Digbeth
Title: An old man will never do for me
First Line: An old man would be wooing
Notes: The illustration and the text are separately printed items. Slip
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: William Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Plains of Waterloo!
First Line: On the eighteenth day of June my boys, Napoleon did advance
Themes: Waterloo, battle of, 1815
Notes: The illustration and the text are separately printed items. Slip
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: Soldier's dream
First Line: Our bugles sung truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd
Authors: Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844
Themes: Soldiers
Notes: The illustration and the text are separately printed items. Slip
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Title: The true lover's lament for her sweetheart, who was killed at the battle of Inkermann
First Line: As I roved one evening, all in the month of June
Themes: Inkerman, battle of, 1854
Notes: The illustration and the text are separately printed items. Slip
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Imprint Names: Pratt, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date c.1850
Imprint: W. Pratt, Printer, 82, Digbeth, Birmingham
Series Identifier: 647
Title: The wife for a bachelor!
First Line: A bachelor leads a happy life
Themes: Bachelors
Notes: The illustration and the text are separately printed items. Slip
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