Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1831
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Smithfield, Birm.
Title: The rigs of the times
First Line: Ye men of high and low degree, come listen to my song
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1855
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Birmingham
Title: Roger and Sylvia
First Line: As I walked out one morning fair
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1831 and 1837
Imprint: Wright, Printer, 113, Moor-Street, Birmingham
Title: The high Germany
First Line: Oh! Polly, dear Polly, the rout it is come
Themes: Soldiers
Title: The queen of hearts
First Line: Oh my poor heart -- my heart is breaking
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1831 and 1837
Imprint: W. Wright Printer Moor Street
Title: Distress'd maid
First Line: As I walk'd out one May morning
Notes: Appears also as the second ballad in Harding B 28(122)
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: Dunois the brave
First Line: It was Dunois the young and brave
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1827
Imprint: W. Wright, Printer, Carey's Court, Birmingham
Title: Truisms or Incontrovertible facts
First Line: I'm Simon Bore, just come from college
Title: Merrily oh
First Line: Merrily every bosom boundeth
Notes: MS note below the title of \"Merrily Oh.\": Tyrolean Song of Liberty.
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Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1827
Imprint: W. Wright, Printer, Carey's Court, Birmingham
Title: The jolly sportsman
First Line: It's of a jolly sportsman was hunting o'er the lawn
Title: The three butchers
First Line: It was Ips, Gips & Johnson, as I've heard many say
Themes: Murder
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1855
Imprint: W. Wright, Printer, Birmingham
Title: The shipwrecked tar
First Line: Come all you thoughtless young men
Themes: Sailors
Title: Bedlam city
First Line: Down by the side of Bedlam city
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1827
Imprint: W. Wright, Printer, Carey's Court, Dale-End, Birmingham
Title: The pennyworth of wit
First Line: My father he has left me
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1855
Imprint: [Wright, Printer, Birmingham]
Notes: The same setting of type as 2806 c.17(290)
Title: The mulberry tree
First Line: The sweet briar grows in the merry green wood
Authors: Collins, John, d. 1808
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1831
Imprint: Wright Printer, Smithfield Birmingham
Notes: The same setting of type as 2806 c.17(30)
Title: Bevely maid and the tinker
First Line: In Beverly town a maid did dwell
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1831
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Smithfield, Birmingham
Title: Bill Brown
First Line: In seventeen hundred and sixty-nine
Themes: Poaching
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1831
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Smithfield, Birmingham
Title: Bloody gardener
First Line: Come all you constant lovers, & to me lend an ear
Themes: Murder , Courtship - difference in social status , Cruel mother
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1831
Imprint: [W. Wright, Printer,] Smithfield, Birmingham
Title: The thrasher
First Line: Can any king be half so great
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Themes: Agricultural laborers
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1831
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Smithfield, Birmingham
Title: Constant lovers
First Line: A sailor courted a farmer's daughter
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1855
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Birmingham
Title: The gypsies
First Line: The gypsies come to my father's door
Themes: Gipsies
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1831
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Smithfield, Birmingham
Title: Life's voyage
First Line: This life is an ocean thro' which we must steer
Tune: Birds of a feather
Authors: Felthouse, J.
Notes: Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(35) and 2806 c.17(334)
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Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1831
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Smithfield, Birmingham
Title: The London sights
First Line: Ize a poor county lad, tho humbl's my [lot]
Themes: Fashions
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1831
Imprint: [Wright, Printer, Smithfield, Birmingham]
Title: Love's a tyrant
First Line: That love's a tyrant I can prove
Notes: Cropped lower edge Slip. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(313)
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Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1831
Imprint: W. Wright, Printer, [Smithfield, Birmingham]
Title: The Calais packet
First Line: Who's for Calais, the packet is sailing now
Notes: Imprint cropped. Originally a sheet with 2806 c.17(427).
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Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1855
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Birmingham
Title: Monkey barber
First Line: A frolicsome spark in sweet Dublin did dwell
Themes: Barbers
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1855
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Birmingham
Title: The mother & boy
First Line: A little boy his mother's joy
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1831 and 1837
Imprint: W. Wright, Printer, Moor-st, Birmingham
Title: Proper subjects for the treading mill
First Line: Though I'm a simple country lad
Subjects: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Themes: Politics and government - 19th century , Social criticism , Spies
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1855
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Birmingham
Title: Painful plough
First Line: Come all you jolly ploughmen of courage stout and bold
Themes: Agricultural laborers
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1831
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Smithfield, Birmingham
Title: The welcome sailor
First Line: As I walked out one night, it being dark all over
Themes: Sailors
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1820 and 1855
Imprint: [Wright, Printer, Birmingham]
Notes: Firth b.26(542) is a copy of the complete sheet
Title: The streams of lovely Nancy
First Line: The streams of lovely Nancy divides in three parts
