Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Rachel Bradley's downfall
First Line: These mid-lent assizes at Lancaster castle
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Buy a broom!
First Line: Buy a broom! buy a broom!
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Artists: Bell, J.
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer, Manchester
Notes: The illustration is signed: J. Bell Sc.
Title: Young Edwin, of the Lowlands low
First Line: Come all you feeling lovers, and listen to my song
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer, Manchester
Title: Courage of true blue
First Line: When the drum beats to arms, each bold British tar
Themes: Sailors
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Barbara Bell
First Line: But this true love is a serious thing
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Hole in the ballad
First Line: [Y]our laughter I'll try to provoke
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833
Themes: Ballads
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer, Manchester
Title: Kitty Clover
First Line: Sweet Kitty Clover, she bothers me so, O, O, O, O
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Love in a hay-band
First Line: Did you never hear tell of one Richard Short's history
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Young Tyler
First Line: Come all you blades that delight in any game
Themes: Prizefighting
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Constant lovers
First Line: A sailor courted a farmer's daughter
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: We're a' noddin'
First Line: And we're a' noddin' -- nid, nid, noddin'
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Old miser
First Line: It's of an old miser in London did dwell
Themes: Misers
Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Notes: Slip. Harding B 25(1763) is another edition.
Title: Sheffield 'prentice
First Line: I was brought up in Sheffield not of an high degree
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Squire and milkmaid
First Line: It's of a rich squire in Bristol doth dwell
Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Lucy Long
First Line: Now I am come afore you
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Jessie o' the dell
First Line: Oh, bright the beaming queen o' night
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Notes: Slip. Harding B 16(34a) is another edition. Another forms part of a sheet of two ballads; see Johnson Ballads 1914
Title: Bonny light horseman
First Line: Maids, wives, and widows, I pray give attention
Themes: Soldiers
Notes: Slip.
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Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer, Manchester
Title: William of the man of war
First Line: One winter's day as I was walking
Themes: Sailors
Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: The thorn
First Line: From the white blossom'd sloe my fair Chloe requested
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Marlborough
First Line: You generals all and champions bold who take delight in fields
Subjects: Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722
Themes: Military
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Ben Backstay
First Line: Ben Backstay lov'd the gentle Anna
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Themes: Sailors
Title: The storm
First Line: Cease rude Boreas, blust'ring railer
Authors: Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784
Themes: Sailors
Title: L, A, W, Law
First Line: Come list to me for a minute
Title: Charlie is my darling
First Line: Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling
Themes: Jacobite Rebellion, 1745
Title: Dawning of the day
First Line: As I walk'd forth one morning fair, all in the summer time
Title: Caroline of Edinburgh town
First Line: Come all young men & maidens attend unto my rhyme
Title: Cabin boy
First Line: The sea was rough, the clouds were dark
Authors: Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841
Themes: Sailors
Title: Love has eyes
First Line: Love's blind they say, O never, nay
Title: Hope told a flattering tale
First Line: Hope told a flattering tale
Title: Welcome to the Bell
First Line: Around the face of blue-eyed Sue
Themes: Taverns
Title: Here's a health to all good lasses
First Line: Here's a health to all good lasses
Themes: Drinking
Title: Is there a heart
First Line: Is there a heart that never loved?
Title: Life's a bumper
First Line: Life's a bumper fill'd by fate
Title: Derby ram
First Line: As I was going to Derby, all on a market day
Subjects: Derby (England)
Themes: Markets
Title: Sweet evening bells
First Line: Sweet evening bells, sweet evening bells
Themes: Bells
Title: The banks of the blue Moselle
First Line: When the glow-worm gilds the elfin flow'r
Title: The bloom is on the rye
First Line: My pretty Jane! my pretty Jane!
Authors: Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
Title: Kitty Jones
First Line: Not long ago a simple lad, from Yorkshire I did roam
Title: They march'd thro' the town
First Line: Oh! they march'd thro' the town with their banners so gay
Title: Begone dull care
First Line: Begone dull care, I prithee begone from me
Title: Old English gentleman
First Line: I'll sing you a good old song
Title: Little love is a mischievous thing
First Line: Little love is a mischievous thing
Title: Here in a cool grot
First Line: Here in a cool grot and mossy cell
Title: Bid me discourse
First Line: Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Dunos the brave
First Line: It was Dunos the brave was bound for Palestine
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Farewell to old England
First Line: Farewell to old England, since I must leave the shore
Themes: Soldiers
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Freemason's song
First Line: Come all you Freemasons that dwell around the globe
Themes: Freemasonry
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Banks of Claudy
First Line: It was one summer's morning, in the pleasant month of May
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer, Manchester
Title: Lash'd to the helm
First Line: In storms when clouds obscure the sky
Themes: Naval