Titles:
The wandering bard, or The tramping boy
Wandering bard!
First Lines:
I'm the wandering bard of Manchester from scribbling can't refrain
I'm the wandering bard of Manchester
Themes:
Ballad-sellers
Titles:
The wandering bard
First Lines:
I'm a wandering bard of Exeter
I'm the wandering bard of Exeter
I'm the wand'ring bard from Exeter
Themes:
Ballad-sellers
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations:
[s.l.]
Title: Chaunting Benny; or The batch of ballads
First Line: When quite a babe, my parents said, as how I'd got a woice, sir
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Imprint Names: Birt, T.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1833 and 1841
Imprint: Birt, Printer, 39, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Title: The chaunt seller or, a New batch of ballads
First Line: Come all you chanting vocalists
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Series Identifier: 38
Title: Chanting Benny, or The batch of ballads
First Line: When quite a babe my parents said
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Imprint Names: Williamson, H.
Imprint Locations: Newcastle
Date c.1845
Imprint: Williamson, Printer, Newcastle
Series Identifier: 26
Title: Billy Nuts the poet
First Line: Beat the drum and blow the fife
Notes: Verse and prose
Subjects: O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Title: Never hold malice!
First Line: Oh, never hold malice! it poisons our life
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Notes: Johnson Ballads 1959; Coloured border.
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Notes: Johnson Ballads 1960; border coloured.
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: The wandering bard
First Line: I'm the wand'ring bard from Exeter
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Pitts Printer Wholesale Toy and Marble Warehouse, 6, Great st. Andrew street, 7 dials
Title: The wandering bard
First Line: I'm the wandering bard of Exeter
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Imprint Names: Wright, W.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham
Date between 1831 and 1837
Imprint: Wright, Printer, Moor-st. Birmingham
Title: Wandering bard!
First Line: I'm the wandering bard of Manchester
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Title: The bag of nails
First Line: My merry gentle-people pray
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Imprint: Published round the corner. Sold Everywhere
Title: A ballad Dedicated to the shade of the late Mr. Catnach, of pious memory
First Line: Come all you merry gentlemen
Subjects: Catnach, James, 1792-1841
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Imprint Names: Swindells
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1796 and 1853
Imprint: Swindells, Printer
Title: Chaunting Benny; or, The batch of ballads
First Line: When quite a babe my parents said as how I'd got a woice sir
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Imprint Names: Read, J.
Imprint Locations: Reading
Imprint: J. Read, Printer, \"Berks Telegraph\" Office, Reading
Notes: Richard Rees, Licensed Hawker, No. 1, F., Liverpool
Title: A tribute to Richard Rees, (known as Cheap John)
First Line: Will you hear a few lines from a plain working-man
Subjects: Rees, Richard
Themes: Temperance , Ballad-sellers
Title: The work among the hills in South Wales
First Line: Read in the papers they're no idle tales
Attributation: By a working man
Subjects: Rees, Richard
Themes: Temperance
Title: Song
First Line: 'Twas in Tredegar town
Tune: Death of Nelson
Subjects: Rees, Richard
Themes: Temperance , Ballad-sellers
Titles:
The Manchester cadger, or Ve vants no vork to do. A favourite characteristic medley song
The Manchester cadger! or Ve vants no vork to do. A favourite characteristic medley song
First Lines:
I am a cunning cadger as ever tramped the town
Themes:
Beggars
Ballad-sellers
Titles:
Innocent mirth
Innocent mirth. A new song
First Lines:
Come gentlemen sit you all merry I'll sing you a song of want
Come geentlemen [sic] sit you all merry
Come gentlemen sit you all merry, I'll sing you a song of want
Themes:
Poverty
Ballad-sellers
Tradesmen
Imprint Names: Jennings, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1790 and 1840
Imprint: Printed and sold by Jennings, Water-lane, Fleet-street, London
Title: Innocent mirth
First Line: Come gentlemen sit you all merry, I'll sing you a song of want
Themes: Poverty , Ballad-sellers
Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Such, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1863 and 1885
Imprint: London: H. Such, Printer, 177, Union Street, Boro' S.E. Established 1846
Notes: Harding B 11(2304) is another edition.
Title: The Manchester cadger! or Ve vants no vork to do. A favourite characteristic medley song
First Line: I am a cunning cadger as ever tramped the town
Tune: Various tunes
Notes: Verse and prose.
Themes: Beggars , Ballad-sellers
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations:
[s.l.]
Title: I've journey'd over many lands
First Line: I've journey'd over many lands
Title: Chanting Benny, or The batch of ballds [sic]
First Line: When quite a babe my parents said
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Title: Steady she goes
First Line: Steady she goes, and all is well
Title: Fair married dames
First Line: Ye fair married dames, who so often deplore
Themes: Marriage
Imprint Names: Wrigley, J., Jr.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Imprint: Printed and Sold by J. Wrigley, Junr., 3, Rochdale Road, Manchester [and] J. Bebbington, Printer, 31, Oldham Road, Manchester
Notes: J. Wrigley, Jr., bought Bebbington's plates
Series Identifier: 435
Title: The wandering bard, or The tramping boy
First Line: I'm the wandering bard of Manchester from scribbling can't refrain
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Title: Poll she was my wife
First Line: Full sixteen years I've plough'd the faithless ocean
Themes: Sailors
Title: A man's best friend
First Line: Of my wife I will sing in praise
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Series Identifier: 579
Title: Chaunting Benny, or The batch of ballads
First Line: When quite a babe my parents said as how I'd got a woice sir
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Title: Cluster of nuts
First Line: As me and my mistress were riding down by the green-wood side
Themes: Adultery
Imprint Names: Povey, L.
Imprint Locations: Berkeley
Date 18--
Imprint: Lewis Povey, Printer, Berkeley
Title: The disobedient daughter
First Line: If you want a good hymn pray buy one of me
Themes: Religion , Ballad-sellers
Title: The saints sweet home
First Line: Mid scenes of confusion and creatures complaints
Themes: Religion
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Imprint Names: The Poet's box
Imprint Locations: Glasgow
Date 1852
Imprint: ... Poet's Box, ... [1]st February 1852
Title: Beggars and ballad-singers
First Line: Merry Proteus of old, as by Ovid we're told
Tune: The artful dodgers
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Beggars , Ballad-sellers
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Series Identifier: 12
Title: Down by the dark arches
First Line: As I walked out one day in the month of July
Themes: Prostitution , Police , Ballad-sellers
Title: Lord Lovel
First Line: Lord Lovel he stood at his castle gate
Imprint Names: Such, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1863 and 1885
Imprint: London: H. Such, Printer, 177, Union Street, Boro' S.E. Established 1846
Notes: Harding B 11(2305) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 272
Title: The Manchester cadger! or Ve vants no vork to do. A favourite characteristic medley song
First Line: I am a cunning cadger as ever tramped the town
Tune: Various tunes
Notes: Verse and prose.
Themes: Beggars , Ballad-sellers
Imprint Names: Armstrong, W.
Imprint Locations: Liverpool
Date between 1820 and 1824
Imprint: Printed for W. Armstrong, Banastre-street
Title: Duke William's frolic
First Line: Duke William and a nobleman, heros of England's nation
Subjects: Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of, 1721-1765
Themes: Sailors
Title: Wandering bird
First Line: I'm the wand'ring bird of Manchester, from scrib'ling can't refrain
Themes: Ballad-sellers
Title: The ballad singer. A new song
First Line: Gentle people as ye throng
Themes: Poverty , Ballad-sellers
