Manner of Robin Hood's rescuing a young lady from an old knight, and restorig her to Allen-a-Dale her former love
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "Come listen to me, you gallants so free". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 32. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Caption title., Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "When Robin Hood in the green wood stood,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Mounted on leaf 35. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "In summer-time when leaves grow green,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 33. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
printed by L. How
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English, Brigands and robbers, Broadsides, Bows (Archery)., Arrows, Spears, and Forests
Date from ESTC., Verse - "Come you gallants all, to you I call,". - In four columns with the title and three woodcuts above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 36. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
"View overlooking gardens, showing a band playing from the orchestra on the right; elegantly dressed figures strolling through gardens or seated at tables amongst trees; head-piece illustration to 'The Musical Entertainer', p. 21; with the score of a song below, all printed from the same plate."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vaux-Hal Garden and Vauxhall Garden
Description:
Title from item., Dedication beneath title: To the Rt. Hon. [the] Ld. Visct. Baltimore, these four plates are humbly inscrib'd., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional four stanzas in two columns below., Opening words: Flora, Goddess, sweetly blooming ..., Plate from: Bickham, G. Musical entertainer., Musical entertainer is sometimes attributed to George Bickham, Senior., Plate numbered "21" in upper right corner., "No. VI."--Lower left corner., and Eighteenth-century watermark. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
G. Bickham
Subject (Geographic):
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Songs with piano, Songs with harpsichord, and Songs, English
Illustration to printed verses: A man and wife, both in fur hoods, &c, stand outside a small hut in a snow scene. She threatens him with her fists. In the background a reindeer draws a sleigh
Alternative Title:
Lock'd jaw and frost-bitten nose and Locked jaw and frost-bitten nose
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Text in letterpress immediately following title: (The Music sold by Messrs. Goulding and Co. New Bond Street.)., Three columns of verse in letterpress near lower portion of sheet: A youth took a wife, for joy or for strife..., and Plate numbered in upper left corner: 502.
Publisher:
Publish'd Dec. 1, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A slip song with the refrain "Derry down, down, &c" addressed to constituents of Middlesex to vote for independent radical candidates George Byng and Sir Francis Burdett in the upcoming local election of 1802
Alternative Title:
Independent electors of Middlesex
Description:
Caption title., In verse., First lines: Rouse, rouse, freedom's sons! all your efforts unite, Make choise of tried men, Independedt, upright; ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Abraham, Clement's Lane
Subject (Name):
Byng, George, 1764-1847., Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844., and Great Britain. Parliament
Manuscript music book containing hymns and songs, vocal parts only, for treble and tenor. Most are identified by names of hymn tunes or Psalm numbers, and most are without texts. Songs with texts include "An Elegy Made on the Death of Queene Mary" and "King George's Anthem." Music is preceded by printed leaves titled "The Gamut or Scale of Musick," rules for "finding your Mi," and "Musical Characters" (no place, publisher, or date); and manuscript "Rules for Tuning the Voice."
Description:
Staff notation., Vocal texts in English., and Title from title page.
Subject (Name):
Miles, Susanna, active 1759., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, English, Singing, Instruction and study, Songbooks, English, and Songs, English
