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1738ref. WRCAM16147London 1738. 7pp. Woodcut frontispiece. Folio. Later wrappers. Minor tears at folds of leaves else good. First edition first issue. An extremely attractive 18th-century British ballad critical of Walpole's dealing with Spain. The full-page woodcut shows the Spanish king pulling the tale of the British lion which is about to mount a cart and be led away by a group of clerics harnessed to the wagon. The text attacks the British conciliation with Spain in 1738-39 and suggests that "you excise them in land I'll excise them by sea" in other words buccaneering. unknown books
1795ref. 28043London 1795 1795. The only recorded edition. ESTC T204804 recording a single copy at Cambridge which contains the same apothecary's stamp. OCLC and COPAC record that same copy; Roud Folk Song Index V1851; and see Broadside Ballads Online at the Bodleian Library which also notes the apothecary's stamp. Paper repaired on the verso; some soiling and smudges; chipped in the upper margin with some loss but only to the blank margins; two small remains of mounting tape on the verso in the upper margin; a rare survival. Broadside 36 x 12 cm woodcut headpiece. Nine four-line stanzas. Attractive oval stamp in the lower margin of Peter Henry Chymist. A typical doggerel poem and somewhat bawdy written in the form of a slip ballad which begins "You young men all both far and near / Listen a while and you shall hear / Take care you're not drawn in a snare / By the girls that do love brandy / Wack Fla la &c." And in the fourth stanza: "'Tis on your backs girls you must lie / Pray which of you would this deny / A dish of tea or brandy." Etc. [London, 1795?] unknown books
ref. 41475Boston: Sold at the Bible & Heart in Cornhill n. d. Ca 1785. 1st printing thus and evidently the 3rd US edition Evans 19401; Ford 3015; Rosenbach 101. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Edgewear & worming with some minor loss of text. Faint fold lines. Unobtrusive expert tissue mends. In lower margin in a period hand is inked: "Lycia Pratts Verses". A Fair - Good copy. Single sheet verse in thirty-eight stanzas triple column. First line: "Now ponder well you parents dear." Followed by two additional stanzas of verse entitled: "A Word of Advice to Executors." Crude woodcut of the fighting ruffians to the left of the sub-title. Folio. 12-1/2" x 8-1/8" A popular childhood ballad first registered at Stationers' Hall in 1595 the piece also subsequently published as "The Babes in the Woods." Shipton & Mooney record the first US edition as 1768 followed by the Heart & Crown imprint of the 1770s no copy located though see Rosenbach 64 then this Bible & Heart version ca 1785 date from Evans. A quite rare 18th C. US children's broadside. Sold at the Bible & Heart, in Cornhill unknown books
1810ref. 174973London: printed and sold by J. Pitts c. 1810. An ephemeral broadside ballad detailing the story of Jane Shore a mistress of Edward IV and a popular cultural reference for many centuries. Shore's heavily fictionalized story featured many elements considered to have mass appeal in the era: a sexually voracious woman a relationship that transcended social hierarchies and an ending that punished transgressive behaviour. In Mrs. Jane Shore the eponymous character is described as a married woman who became King Edward's concubine and "lived in the court/With lords and ladies of great sort". Whilst she had influence over the King she ensured "to help the people that were poor" and "sav'd their lives condemned to die". Regardless her infidelity ultimately led to her social disgrace and she died in a ditch in East London. As detailed in the ballad urban mythology claimed that her unfortunate death gave the Shoreditch district its name. Ballads such as this were sung in a variety of communal spaces including pubs lodging houses and the streets and typically took criminal or socially deviant behaviour as their subject. In their own time broadside ballads were believed "to foster immorality and to glorify crime" O'Brien p. 16. More recent interpretations appreciate their literary and social value and consider that "their job was to voice tensions to work over the contradictions of human life" Gammon p. 237. Landscape single sheet 362 x 252 mm printed in columns. A little chipped at the edges but overall a well-preserved copy of a fragile publication. Vic Gammon "Song Sex and Society in England 1600-1850" Folk Music Journal vol. 4 no. 3 1982; Ellen L. O'Brien "'The Most Beautiful Murder': The Transgressive Aesthetics of Murder in Victorian Street Ballads" Victorian Literature and Culture vol. 28 no. 1 2000. unknown
1809ref. 174972London: printed and sold by Jennings c. 1809. A ballad telling a tragic tale of lovers tricked apart by "cruel" and "covetous" parents. Similar ballads often feature an unfaithful and avaricious antiheroine who suffers a cautionary downfall. Here however Susan is a "harmless maid" and it is families who are warned against prioritizing wealth over the happiness of the younger generation. The love triangle between a woman her husband and a sailor was a common trope in 17th- to 19th-century ballads but most had several key differences to this version. The woman was normally the one to prioritize financial gain unlike Susan who declares that "No wealth nor riches shall make me disloyal". The sailor was typically a demonic character sometimes the Devil in disguise whereas "sweet William" is an honest and faithful man. In most ballads only the woman dies while the sailor-demon escapes; both Susan and William perish here. Such entertaining ballads were an outlet for people "to voice tensions to work over the contradictions of human life" Gammon p. 237. The Plymouth Tragedy reflects an exasperation with the requirements on the young especially women to conform with their parents' desires at the expense of their own happiness. Single sheet 255 x 360 mm printed in columns. Woodcut vignette. A little nicked at edges old centre fold reinforced on verso with paper; overall a well-preserved copy of a fragile publication. Vic Gammon "Song Sex and Society in England 1600-1850" Folk Music Journal vol. 4 no. 3 1982. unknown
1830ref. TH262Nottingham: The Review-Office 1830. Original Ediiton . No Binding. Vg. Folio. Broadslip Ballad 32x13cms 12 3/4 x 5 inces. Attractive half page broadside with a fine and attractive printed border to the verses. Small woodcut to the head of the page depicting a printing press.NO COPY TRACED. Believed to be printed at Suttons Review Office in Nottingham and dated 1830. 8 four line verses extolling the press and reflecting on events of the year just gone.William IV had taken the throne and was welcomed as a Royal Navy sailor and a reformer. Charles and Richard Sutton printers and proprietors of the liberal Nottingham Review The Review-Office unknown
1870ref. 48786San Francisco: Bruce's Print n.d. ca. 1870s. First Edition. Small broadside 16x8.5cm. printed within typographically decorative border on yellow stock. Miniscule loss at top left-hand margin else Near Fine. Printed at head of title "8 & 7." Reconstruction-era three verse ballad broadside addressed to Dolly Varden not /the/ Dolly Varden of Charles Dickens' novel "Barnaby Rudge" though the name was hugely popular as a result of the work and inspired a fashion craze and the name of a trout. The text makes mention of the 1872 Crédit Mobilier fraud; promotes the work of the Patrons of Husbandry "Dolly do you love the 'Granges' / Do you love to be well fed / Will you shield them from all danger / While they reap the daily bread"; and attacks the spread of carpet-bagging in the South "Search the carpet-bagger well / And the pack of high-tone stealers / Judge and send them all to L. Bruce's Print unknown
1860ref. 214168Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers" 1860. No. 20 printed at foot of title. Title with woodcut vigentt of "Fair Rosanna". 8 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Single sheet folded twice; unopened and unbound. A little dusty and wrinkled otherise very good. No. 20 printed at foot of title. Title with woodcut vigentt of "Fair Rosanna". 8 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Printed for the Booksellers" unknown
ref. 61810842Jones & Bartlett Publishers Incorporated . Papeback. New. pp. xvii 391 1st Edition Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Incorporated unknown
1894ref. j2359aDurham: Thos Caldcleugh. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and soiled. 1894. First Edition. Brown hardback boards with blue cloth spine. 260mm x 200mm 10" x 8". 43pp. Line drawings by Rev. N Temple Hamlyn. A poem to celebrate the battle of Hedgely Moor in Northumberland in 1463. Dedicated to the Right Honourable Earl Percy - illustrations undertaken with his Lordship's permission. Illustrations include Alnwick Castle Chillingham wild cattle Eglingham and the armorial bearings of the Percys Nevilles and other noble families recounted in the ballad. . Thos Caldcleugh hardcover
2018ref. Gyan-9789361683435Facsimile Publisher 2018. Hardcover. New. 22.59 x 14.34 x 3.41 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
2018ref. Gyan-9789361683435Facsimile Publisher 2018. Hardcover. New. 22.59 x 14.34 x 3.41 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
ref. 7461Publisher and date not stated. Circa 1840. Printed on one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 280 x 95 mm. Aged creased and spotted with chipping to extremities but with text and illustration clear and entire. Curious small roughly 40 x 65 mm crude illustration at head showing dove with olive branch and acorn. Forty-line poem arranged in five stanzas. Interestingly-garbled nineteenth-century folk song with ancient antecedents. First stanza reads 'There was a young squire in the north country we hear Was courting a nobleman's daughter so dear Now for to marry her it was his intent All friends and relations did give their consent. The time was appointed for the wedding-day The farmer was sorry to give her away; Instead of being married she went to her bed And the thoughts of the farmer still ran in her head.' The lady puts on 'A coat and blue trousers' and goes 'a-hunting with her dog and her gun'. She converses with the farmer who unaware of her true identity declares his love for her. She gives the farmer a glove full of gold goes home and declares that she has lost her glove and will marry the man who finds it. Last lines: 'I'll be the mistress of the dairy and milking of the cows While my jolly young farmer goes whistling at the plough.' Several copies of items with this title on COPAC but none exactly corresponding to this one and most with the first line reading 'A wealthy young squire of Tamworth we hear'. See Image. Publisher and date not stated. [Circa 1840?] unknown
ref. 7460Date circa 1840 and publisher not stated. On one side of a piece of thin wove paper roughly 260 x 95 mm. Aged and creased with internal 25 mm closed tear affecting four words of text all of which can be completed from the context repaired on blank reverse with archival tape. Otherwise text and illustration clear and entire. Small 30 x 40 mm woodcut at head showing two early nineteenth-century country coves outside a cottage. The poem consists of ten four-line stanzas. The first stanza reads 'When I was young I was much beloved By all young men in the country; When I was blooming in all my blossom A false young lover deceived me.' Last stanza: 'Its time will soon put an end to all things And love will soon put an end to me And sure there is a place of torment To punish my lover for slight'ing me.' A touching poem of betrayed love: 'Its turn you round you wheel of fortune Its turn you round and smile on me For young men's words they're quite uncertain For sad experience teaches me.' Scarce. No copy on COPAC or in the British Library. Image on application. Date [circa 1840?] and publisher not stated. unknown
ref. 7459Date and publisher not stated. London; circa 1840. Printed on one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 230 x 90 mm. On pitted aged paper. Text complete. Approximate 30 x 50 mm piece torn away from top right-hand corner causing loss to small illustration at head which appears to be a crude woodcut of a woman lying in a coffin. The poem consists of thirty-six lines arranged in five stanzas. The first stanza reads 'Dear Peggy read this letter its the last one I'll send Our long correspondence is now at an end. I am wounded through the body no surgeon can cure The pain that I feel is hard to endure.' Last stanza reads 'Farewel my dear Peggy farewel for evermore For I never will see you my own native shore.' The narrator appears to have been shot in battle. He stops the 'flow from my wound . for to gain as much time As to write unto Peggy'. Scarce. No item with this title on COPAC or at the British Library. Image on application. Date and publisher not stated. [London; circa 1840?] unknown
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2006ref. 17002JLos Angeles: Netflix 2006. First Edition. Small format paperbound 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” 112 pages. Specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Adapted Screenplay. Shooting script for the film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs written and directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen from a story by Jack London starring Tim Blake Nelson Willie Watson Clancy Brown and James Franco. A perfectbound book looking like a trade paperback. The film was nominated for 3 Oscars; Best Adapted Screenplay Best Costume Design and Best Original Song ‘When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings’ by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch. Paperbound. A little rubbing to covers otherwise a fine copy Netflix paperback
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1738ref. 16147London. 1738. Catching the British Lion by the Tail First edition first issue. An appealing 18th-century British ballad critical of Walpole's dealing with Spain. The full-page woodcut shows the Spanish king pulling the tale of the British lion which is about to mount a cart and be led away by a group of clerics harnessed to the wagon. The text attacks the British conciliation with Spain in 1738-39 and suggests that "you excise them in land I'll excise them by sea" in other words buccaneering. 7pp. Woodcut frontispiece. Folio. Later wrappers. Minor tears at folds of leaves else very good. unknown
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1830ref. 29079London: H. Disley 1830. Good overall. That's Where You're Wrong' includes references to emigration to Canada a spirited revolutionary song: "Rise Britons rise and ring your voices thro' the land…" This is a broadside ballad were sold for half a penny or penny on the streets in London Manchester and other British cities during the 19th century. Once newspapers became more widespread and cheaper they largely displaced this type of street literature. Printed on cheap tissue paper they included religious warnings political arguments satire comedy bawdy tales crime news fantastic tales love and relationship advice and calls for social reform. In some cases the printer would suggest a familiar tune that would fit the lyrics provided. Most had a woodcut illustration although it may have been unrelated to the subject matter. Many broadside ballads in London were printed in the Seven Dials district. They were sold in large numbers on street corners in squares and at fairs by travelling ballad singers and also pinned on the walls of alehouses where they were sung and read. However because they were meant to be disposable presaging both the consumer culture and mass media relatively few have survived. 7 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches toned edges chipped fold line repaired. H. Disley unknown
ref. 29078London. First line: "Have you heard of the rumpus there was I declare All the Popes in the world was in Belgrave Square…" With The Wonderful Crocodile. "Now list ye landmen all to me To tell you truth I'm bound What happen'd to me by going to sea…" According to Burl Ives this tune was based on an old Irish air. John and Alan Lomax collected it in Nova Scotia in 1921 from a man who said it was a song he'd known since he was a boy - "one of thoses that used to be roared out in the back rooms of taverns frequented by seamen forty or so years ago." This is a broadside ballad were sold for half a penny or penny on the streets in London Manchester and other British cities during the 19th century. Once newspapers became more widespread and cheaper they largely displaced this type of street literature. Printed on cheap tissue paper they included religious warnings political arguments satire comedy bawdy tales crime news fantastic tales love and relationship advice and calls for social reform. In some cases the printer would suggest a familiar tune that would fit the lyrics provided. Most had a woodcut illustration although it may have been unrelated to the subject matter. Many broadside ballads in London were printed in the Seven Dials district. They were sold in large numbers on street corners in squares and at fairs by travelling ballad singers and also pinned on the walls of alehouses where they were sung and read. However because they were meant to be disposable presaging both the consumer culture and mass media relatively few have survived. 7 1/2 by 10 inches. Edges slt ruffled o/w vgc. unknown
