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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Jemmy and Nancy. A ballad
Author: James and Nancy, or, the Yarmouth Tragedy: a ballad in IV. parts
Author: Journal of the Folk-Song Society
Author: Folk-Song Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Journal of the Folk-Song Society
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Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland
Author: Sidney GilpinPublisher:
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country
Author: Sidney GilpinPublisher:
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The songs and ballads of Cumberland, to which are added dialect and other poems, with notes, ed. by Sidney Gilpin
Author: George Coward (of Carlisle)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: David AtkinsonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527502759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
For centuries, street literature was the main cheap reading material of the working classes: broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, prints, engravings, and other forms of print produced specifically to suit their taste and cheap enough for even the poor to buy. Starting in the sixteenth century, but at its chaotic and flamboyant peak in the nineteenth, street literature was on sale everywhere – in urban streets and alleyways, at country fairs and markets, at major sporting events and holiday gatherings, and under the gallows at public executions. For this very reason, it was often despised and denigrated by the educated classes, but remained enduringly popular with the ordinary people. Anything and everything was grist to the printers’ mill, if it would sell. A penny could buy you a celebrity scandal, a report of a gruesome murder, the last dying speech of a condemned criminal, wonder tales, riddles and conundrums, a moral tale of religious danger and redemption, a comic tale of drunken husbands and shrewish wives, a temperance tract or an ode to beer, a satire on dandies, an alphabet or “reed-a-ma-daisy” (reading made easy) to teach your children, an illustrated chapbook of nursery rhymes, or the adventures of Robin Hood and Jack the Giant Killer. Street literature long held its own by catering directly for the ordinary people, at a price they could afford, but, by the end of the Victorian era, it was in terminal decline and was rapidly being replaced by a host of new printed materials in the shape of cheap newspapers and magazines, penny dreadful novels, music hall songbooks, and so on, all aimed squarely at the burgeoning mass market. Fascinating today for the unique light it shines on the lives of the ordinary people of the age, street literature has long been neglected as a historical resource, and this collection of essays is the first general book on the trade for over forty years.
![Title pages, and imprints, of the books in the private library of James M'Kie, Kilmarnock. [With] Bibliotheca Burnsiana, life and works of Burns: title pages and imprints of the various editions in the private library of J. M'Kie, prior to date 1866 [covering 287 items. Followed by] Addenda, containing a list of editions, which are not contained in the private library of J. M'Kie PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/NIsIAAAAQAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: James M'Kie