A garland of new songs. : The fairest of the fair; Here's a health, &.; Giles Scroggins' ghost; My only Jo' an' dearie O; The beautiful maid; The royal love letter

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33119025

Description

Title
A garland of new songs. : The fairest of the fair; Here's a health, &.; Giles Scroggins' ghost; My only Jo' an' dearie O; The beautiful maid; The royal love letter
Contributor
Marshall, John (Printer of Newcastle upon Tyne), printer.
Published / Created
[between 1800 and 1831]
Publication Place
Newcastle upon Tyne and England Newcastle upon Tyne
Publisher
Printed by J. Marshall, in the Old Flesh-Market, where may also be had, a large and curious assortment of songs, ballads, tales, histories, &c.
Description
Title from first page.
Undated. Date range from trading dates of John Marshall, cf. The British book trade index.
A chapook.
Without music.
Crude woodcut title vignette of young man and woman holding hands.
Laid paper. Horizontal chain lines.
First sentence of The fairest of the fair: "O Nanny! wilt thou gang with me, nor sigh to leave the flaunting town?"
First sentence of Here's a health: "Here's a health to all good lasses; here's a health to all good lasses; Here's a health to all good lasses; Pledge it merrily, fill your glasses: Let a bumper toast go round."
First sentence of The sea-boy: "To England's towers of oak farewell, No more for me shall be unfurl'd the canvas in the gale to swell, The ocean is no more my world; Yet there life's ealiest years I fearlesss pass'd, a sea-boy on the high and giddy mast."
First sentence of Giles Scroggins' ghost: "Giles Scroggins courted Molly Brown, Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido; The fairest wench in all the town, Fol deriddle lol, &c."
First sentence of My only Jo' an' dearie o: "Thy cheek is o' the rose's hue, My only Jo and dearie O; Thy neck is like the siller dew, Upon the bank sae brierie O."
First sentence of The beautiful maid: "When absent from her my soul holds most dear, What medley of passions invade, In this bosom what anguish, what hope, and what fear, I endure for my beautiful maid, I endure for my beautiful maid."
Not in ESTC.
Extent
8 pages : 16 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been partially digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
File 74 800 G233 no. 24

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Specimens
Texts
Chapbooks
Songsters
Songs
Woodcuts
Material
1 woodcut ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Chapbooks, English
Songs, English
Ballads, English
Subjects
Chapbooks, English > Specimens
Songs, English > Texts
Ballads, English > Texts

Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public

Identifiers

Catalog Record
99160094913408651
Object ID (OID)
33119025

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