Imprint Names: Wilson, J.
Imprint Locations: Bideford
Imprint: Wilson, Printer, Bideford
Notes: Part of a sheet of eight; see Firth b.26(467/468).
Title: Smoky house, and scolding wife
First Line: The tale is true I've often heard
Themes: Taverns , Domestic relations
Title: Second thoughts are best
First Line: Come write me down ye powers above
Imprint Names: Wilson, J.
Imprint Locations: Bideford
Notes: See Firth b.26(467/468) for imprint. For the first illustration, see Davison catalogue, No. 322.
Title: Smoky house, and scolding wife
First Line: The tale is true I've often heard
Themes: Taverns , Domestic strife
Title: Second thoughts are best
First Line: Come write me down ye powers above
Imprint Names: Birt
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1833 and 1851
Imprint: Birt, Printer, 39, Gt. St. Andrew Street
Notes: Slip. Another edition appears in Harding B 17(278a)
Title: Second thoughts are best
First Line: Come write me down ye powers above
Notes: The illustration and the text are separately printed items. Slip.
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Imprint Names: Birt, T.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1828 and 1829
Imprint: Printed by T. Birt, wholesale and retail 10, Great St. Andrew- Street, Seven Dials, London
Title: Second thoughts are best
First Line: Come write me down ye powers above
Notes: Harding B 14(277a) is another edition of this ballad alone
Title: Oh, no! we never mention her
First Line: Oh, no, we never mention her, her name is never heard
Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Notes: See Harding B 11(130) Harding B 11(130) is another impression Harding B 11(130) is another impression Harding B 11(130) is another impression
Title: The bailiffs have been
First Line: The bailiffs have been here, oh la! oh la!
Themes: Bailiffs
Title: Second thought is be[st]
First Line: Come write me down ye powers above
Title: Lads of the village
First Line: While the lads of the village shall merrily ah
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Imprint Names: Wilson, J.
Imprint Locations: Bideford
Imprint: Wilson, Printer, Bideford
Notes: See Harding B 11(4026).
Title: The wandering boy
First Line: When the winter wind whistles along the wild moor
Authors: White, Henry Kirke, 1785-1806
Title: Old Towler
First Line: Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn
Themes: Hunting
Title: The mariner's compass
First Line: Sam spritsail's a lad you delight in
Themes: Sailors
Title: The woodpecker
First Line: I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd
Title: Smoky house, and scolding wife
First Line: The tale is true I've often heard
Themes: Taverns , Domestic relations
Title: Home, sweet home
First Line: Mid pleasures and places [sic] tho' we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Title: Second thoughts are best
First Line: Come write me down ye powers above
Title: Answer to Home, sweet home
First Line: I was courted by a young man, who led me astray
Imprint Names: Birt, T.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1828 and 1829
Imprint: Printed by T. Birt, wholesale and retail 10, Great St. Andrew- Street Seven Dials, London
Title: Second thoughts are best
First Line: Come write me down ye powers above
Notes: A complete version forms part of Harding B 17(278a)
Imprint Names: Armstrong, W.
Imprint Locations: Liverpool
Date between 1820 and 1824
Imprint: Printed for W. Armstrong, Banastre-st.
Title: The powers above
First Line: Come write me down ye powers above
Imprint Names: Fordyce, W. and T.
Imprint Locations: Newcastle
Date c.1840
Imprint: Printed and sold by W. & T. Fordyce, Newcastle and Hull. To be had also of J. Whinham & Co., 66 Scotch-str., Carlisle
Series Identifier: 93
Title: On the banks of the river
First Line: On the banks of the river where I first met my lover
Title: A new song called The true lovers
First Line: Look ye down, the powers of love
Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Pitts, Printer, wholesale Toy, and Marble warehouse, 6, Gt. Saint Andrews Street, Seven Dials
Notes: Harding B 11(131) is another impression.
Title: The bailiffs have been
First Line: The bailiffs have been here, oh la! oh la!
Themes: Clothing , Bailiffs , Furniture
Title: Second thought is best
First Line: Come write me down ye powers above
Title: Lads of the village
First Line: While the lads of the village shall merrily ah
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814