Titles:
London butcher
First Lines:
It's of a brisk young butcher as I have heard say
Themes:
Paternity
Titles:
The Cunningham baby. Or the Heir from over Jordan
First Lines:
Now a lady of the town of doubtful renown
Themes:
Paternity
Titles:
When first I went to tea
First Lines:
When first I went to tea
Themes:
Paternity
Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1802 and 1819
Imprint: Printed and Sold by Pitts, 14 Great st. Andrew street, seven Dials
Notes: Slip. Harding B 17(42b) is another edition.
Title: Bung your eye
First Line: As a jolly exciseman was walking the street
Themes: Paternity
Imprint Names: Hodges, E.M.A.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1846 and 1854
Imprint: Hodges, Printer, (from Pitts) wholesale Toy Warehouse, 31, Dudley Street 7 Dials
Title: The scarlet flower
First Line: She's gentle as the zephyr
Title: My wife's first baby
First Line: The other night as I lay in my bed
Themes: Paternity
Imprint Names: Pitts, J. , Goodwin, D.
Imprint Locations: London , London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Printed and Sold by J, Pitts, Wholesale Toy and Marble Warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew street, Seven Dials; and sold by D. Goodwin, 204, White Chapel-road, near the London Hospital
Title: The new Irish girl
First Line: As I walked out one morning down by a river side
Title: Leicester chambermaid
First Line: It's of a brisk young butcher as I have h[e]ard them say
Themes: Paternity
Imprint Names: Such, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1849 and 1862
Imprint: London: H. Such, Printer and Publisher, 123, Union Street, Boro' S.E.
Notes: Harding B 11(2592) is another impression.
Series Identifier: 219
Title: Irish Molly, O.
First Line: As I walked out one morning all in the month of May
Title: [My] wife's first baby
First Line: The other night as I lay in my bed
Themes: Paternity
Imprint Names: Armstrong, W.
Imprint Locations: Liverpool
Date between 1820 and 1824
Imprint: [Printed for W. Armstrong, Banastre-street]
Title: T[he] new batchelor
First Line: W[hen] first to London town I came
Themes: Paternity
Notes: 2806 c.17(298) is damaged at top, lacking part of illustration, and holed in title area. For another version of the illustration, see 2806 c.17(465). Slip
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Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: King, T. , Green, G.
Imprint Locations: Birmingham , London
Date c.1845
Imprint: Printed by T King, Birmingham, and Sold by G Green, at his Music Stall, near the Turnpike; City Road and at 27, Featherstone St City Road
Title: The low back'd chair
First Line: When first I courted Meggy twa's on a summers day
Tune: The low back'd car
Themes: Paternity
Imprint Names: Such, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1863 and 1885
Notes: See Harding B 11(3239) for imprint Slip. Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(3239)
Title: I wish your mother would come!
First Line: Come Georgy hold the child
Tune: The whistling thief
Themes: Paternity
Imprint Names: Andrews, J.
Imprint Locations: New York, N.Y.
Date c.1860
Imprint: J. Andrews, Printer, 38 Chatham St., N.Y.
Series Identifier: 6
Title: The Cunningham baby. Or the Heir from over Jordan
First Line: Now a lady of the town of doubtful renown
Themes: Paternity
Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Notes: Harding B 11(2103) is another edition.
Series Identifier: 427
Title: Leicester chambermaid
First Line: It's of a brisk young butcher, as I've heard 'em say
Themes: Paternity
Title: Duddy breeks, or Robin Thompson's smiddy
First Line: My mither mend't my auld breeks
Titles:
The iron child
Iron child
First Lines:
Draw near awhile good people all, while I relate a tale
Draw near awhile good people all
Come listen, lads an lasses all
Themes:
Paternity
Prisons
Titles:
The merry fiddler done over
First Lines:
O, a fiddler coming from a --- fair
Themes:
Seduction
Paternity
Titles:
Slap-up 4-and-9
The slap-up four and nine
First Lines:
Come listen my friends all round, in verse I've got to prat
List my friends all round in verse I got it pat
Themes:
Paternity
Fashions
Titles:
The perfect cure
Perfect cure
A perfect cure
First Lines:
Young love he plays some funny tricks
Young Love he plays some funny tricks
Themes:
Illegitimacy
Paternity
Titles:
The child with three fathers
First Lines:
You young lads draw near for awhile
You young lads and lasses draw near for awhile
Themes:
Pregnancy
Paternity
Titles:
The crafty lass's garland, Who'll buy the rabbit? Or, The coney brought to a fair market
The crafty lass's garland. Who'll buy the rabbit? Or, The coney brought to a fair market
First Lines:
Come all that love to be merry
Themes:
Illegitimacy
Paternity
Titles:
The tinkers budget, or Pawnbroker outwitted
First Lines:
Attend you good people until I relate
Themes:
Pawnbrokers
Paternity
Titles:
Kate and Teddy
First Lines:
I'll be bound I'll remember the day
Themes:
Paternity
Scatology
Imprint Names: De Marsan, H.
Imprint Locations: New York, N.Y.
Date c.1860
Imprint: H. De Marsan, Publisher, 60 Chatham str. New-York
Notes: Border: Comic heads.
Title: Jeremy Diddler
First Line: Miss Nicholls lodged on the first floor
Performers: Lum, Frank
