Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Pitts, Printer, Toy and Marble Warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Title: What's old England come to
First Line: One cold winter's morning as the day was dawning
Themes: Trade depression
Title: Happy land
First Line: Happy land -- happy land
Title: The snowdrop of the South
First Line: As William was a walking he met a lovely fair
Tune: Mountains high
Imprint Names: Ordoyno, W.
Imprint Locations: Nottingham
Imprint: Printed and Sold Wholesale and Retail by W. Ordoyno, Newton Street, Nottingham
Notes: An uncut sheet of two titles.
Title: Happy land
First Line: Happy land! happy land!
Title: The soldier's tear
First Line: Upon the hill he turn'd
Themes: Soldiers
Title: After many roving years
First Line: Oh, after many roving years
Title: Where are you going my pretty maid
First Line: Where are you going my pretty maid?
Title: My Helen is the fairest flower
First Line: My Helen is the fairest flower
Title: Kiss me now or never
First Line: The morn was fair, the month was May
Title: Rose of Cashmere
First Line: By the flower of the valley
Title: The smile and sigh
First Line: There is a smile I dearly prize
Title: My love's like the red red rose
First Line: Oh, my love's like the red red rose
Title: Lovely woman
First Line: Of mighty nature's handy works
Themes: Women
Title: Woodman spare the tree
First Line: Woodman spare that tree
Authors: Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864
Title: Lost Rosabel
First Line: They have given thee to another
Themes: Lovers parted
Title: Journey'd over many lands
First Line: I've journey'd over many lands
Title: My bark is on the sea
First Line: Do you ever think of me love
Title: The old house at home
First Line: Oh, the old house at home where my forefathers dwelt
Authors: Bayly, N.T.H. (Nathaniel Thomas Haynes), 1797-1839
Title: My old girl at home
First Line: To my old girl at home these lines I'll indite
Themes: Family life
Title: Merry Christ-Church bells
First Line: Hark! the bonny Christ-Church bells
Themes: Bells
Title: The gypsey prince
First Line: No more, no more shall the notes of love
Themes: War
Title: Allan water
First Line: On the banks of Allan-water
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: My dear native isle
First Line: Dear native isle; the summer sun is glowing
Title: We've liv'd and lov'd together
First Line: We have liv'd and lov'd together
Authors: Jefferys, Charles, 1807-1865
Title: Oh, yes! I oft remember thee
First Line: Oh, yes! I oft remember thee
Title: A duet
First Line: Cup of nectar -- rosy nectar
Title: Dolly Day
First Line: She's just what I expected her
Title: By the gaily circling glass
First Line: By the gaily circling glass
Themes: Drinking
Title: Hail! smiling morn
First Line: Hail! smiling morn that tips the hill with gold
Title: Chanting Benny, or the Batch of ballads
First Line: When quite a babe my parents said
Themes: Ballads
Title: The queen of merry England
First Line: O the queen of merry England
Subjects: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Themes: Patriotism
Title: The death of Nelson
First Line: O'er Nelson's tomb, with silent grief oppress'd
Authors: Arnold, Samuel James, 1774-1852
Subjects: Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805
Title: John Anderson my Jo
First Line: John Anderson, my Jo, John
Authors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Themes: Marriage
Title: Sweet May morn
First Line: It was early one sweet May morning
Title: Willie brew'd a peck o' maut
First Line: O Willie brew'd a peck o' maut
Themes: Drinking
Title: The bloom is on the rye
First Line: My pretty Jane! my pretty Jane!
Authors: Fitzball, Edward, 1792-1873
Title: Drink, boys, drink
First Line: Come, push about the grog, and drink, boys drink
Themes: Drinking
Title: The Red cross knight
First Line: Blow, warder, blow! thy sounding horn
Themes: Crusaders
Title: A new version of the Admiral
First Line: How swiftly rides our gallant bark
Themes: Naval
Title: My beautiful Rhine
First Line: How sweet 'tis to wander when day beams decline
Themes: Rhine, river
Title: Health to all good lasses
First Line: Here's a health to all good lasses
Themes: Drinking
Notes: Firth b.25(600/601) is torn at top and bottom.
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Imprint Names: Bebbington, J.O. , Beaumont, J.
Imprint Locations: Manchester , Leeds
Date c.1850
Imprint: Printed and Sold by John O. Bebbington, 22 Goulden St, Oldham Road, Manchester; also by J. Beaumont 176, York Street, Leeds
Series Identifier: 107
Title: Cot where I was born
First Line: I've roamed beneath a foreign sky
Themes: Emigration
Title: Happy land
First Line: Happy land! whate'er my fate in life may be
Themes: Emigration
Title: Erin go bragh
First Line: My name's Duncan Cambell, from the shire of Argyle
Themes: Emigration - Irish , Irish - Scotland
Imprint Names: Catnach, J. , Harvey, Mrs.
Imprint Locations: London , Sheffield
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, & 3, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials. Sold by Mrs. Harvey, Sheffield-Park, Sheffield
Notes: Harding B 11(2163) is another edition.
Title: Little Jessey, the poor flower maid
First Line: I am poor little Jessey, I come here to show
Themes: Street traders
Title: Happy land!
First Line: Happy land! whate'er my fate in life may be
Title: The New York trader
First Line: To a new York trader I did belong
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) , Waterford (Ireland)
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials
Notes: Johnson Ballads 220 is another edition.
Title: Little Jessey, the poor flower maid
First Line: I am poor little Jessey, I come here to show
Themes: Street traders
Title: Happy land
First Line: Happy land! happy land!
Title: [N]ew York trader
First Line: To a New York trader I did belong
Subjects: New York (N.Y.)
Imprint Names: Birmingham, W.
Imprint Locations: Dublin
Date c.1867
Imprint: W. Birmingham, 92, Thomas Street, Dublin
Title: The green linnet
First Line: On a fair summer's morning as day was just dawning
Subjects: O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847
Title: The maid of sweet Gurteen
First Line: Come all you gentle muses, combine and lend an ear
Title: Happy land
First Line: Happy land! happy land!
Title: The old willow brook
First Line: When the red sun has sunk o'er the valley afar
Title: Dear woman
First Line: Bright, bright are the beams of the morning sky
Themes: Women
Imprint Names: Walker, G.
Imprint Locations: Durham
Date between 1797 and 1834
Imprint: Walker, Printer, Durham
Series Identifier: 4
Title: When we went out a gipsying
First Line: In the days when we went a gipsying
Authors: Ransford, Edwin, 1805-1876
Themes: Pastoral
Title: Happy land
First Line: Happy land! happy land!
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Imprint Names: Jacques, G.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date c.1850
Imprint: Printed, & Sold Wholesale & Retail, by G. Jacques, Oldham Road Library, Manchester
Title: Constant farmer's son
First Line: It's of a merchant's daughter, in London town did dwell
Title: Old woman and her cats
First Line: A very old woman once liv'd by herself
Themes: Cats
Title: A sketch on the present times
First Line: All you who are low spirited, to me I pray draw near
Title: Sweet silver light, bonny moon
First Line: As I went to my cot at the close of the day
Title: I should dearly like to marry
First Line: I should dearly like to marry
Themes: Marriage
Title: When the dew is on the grass
First Line: Softly, softly will I pass
Title: Squire of Edinburgh
First Line: There was a squire in Edinburgh, and a squire of high degree
Title: Bless the ladies all
First Line: How beautiful the ladies seem
Tune: Nice young man
Title: The Tartan drum
First Line: Row thy bark, my gallant lover
Title: Handsome factory lass
First Line: As down by the factory I alone one morning strayed
Title: Banks of the blue Moselle
First Line: When the glow worm gilds the elfin bower
Title: Happy land
First Line: Happy land; whate'er my fate in life may be
Title: Love lies asleep in the rose
First Line: The lady bird skims o'er the woodbine
Imprint Names: Ordoyno, W.
Imprint Locations: Nottingham
Imprint: Ordoyno, Printer, Nottingham
Title: Blind beggar's daughter of Bethnal Green
First Line: Its of a blind beggar who had lost his sight
Themes: Courtship - difference in social status , Beggars
Title: Happy land
First Line: Happy land! happy land!
Imprint Names: Forth, J.
Imprint Locations: Pocklington
Imprint: Forth, Printer, Pocklington
Series Identifier: 68
Title: Happy land
First Line: Happy land! happy land
Title: The cruel ship carpenter
First Line: In fair Worcester city and in Worcestershire
Imprint Names: Birmingham, W.
Imprint Locations: Dublin
Date c.1867
Notes: Appears also in a sheet of five; see Harding B 19(39)
Title: Happy land
First Line: Happy land! happy land!
Title: The old willow brook
First Line: When the red sun has sunk o'er the vall[ey] afar
Title: Dear woman
First Line: Bright, bright are the beams of the morning sky
Themes: Women
Imprint Names: Harkness, J. , Bentley , Stewart , Meadows
Imprint Locations: Preston , Bradford , Newcastle , Halshaw Moor
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: John Harkness, Printer, 121, Church Street, Preston. Sold by Bentley, Bradford; Stewart, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Meadows, Halshaw Moor
Notes: Harding B 11(121) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 75
Title: Aunt Betty's days
First Line: Good people give attention and listen to my rhymes
Themes: Fashions
Title: Banks of the Dee
First Line: It was summer, so softly the breezes were blowing
Authors: Tait, John, 1748-1817
Title: Happy land!
First Line: Happy land! what'er my fate in life may be
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: John Harkness, Printer, 121, Church Street, Preston
Notes: Harding B 20(6) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 75
Title: Aunt Betty's days
First Line: Good people give attention and listen to my rhymes
Themes: Women , Social status , Fashions , Trades
Title: Banks of the Dee!
First Line: It was summer, so softly the breezes were blowing
Authors: Tait, John, 1748-1817
Title: Happy land!
First Line: Happy land: whate'er my fate in life may be
