Ballads

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This is an apparently unrecorded mid-19th-century broadside ballad celebrating the talents of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind (1820-1887). A contemporary manuscript note indicates that the broadside was published in Perth in September 1847.

Scope and Contents Bundle of printed ballads on a variety of contemporary topics. Printers imprints centre on London, and generally in the area of Seven Dials.Most items are single folios, but some are small gatherings of pages. All are printed in black ink on neutral-coloured paper. On a few occasions, colour has been added by hand to add decoration to woodcuts.One page [titled 'Dreadful shipwreck in the Channel, of the Northfleet Emigrant Ship, Loss of over 300 lives'] has a note on...

Scope and Contents This is a manuscript ballad notebook dating from approximately 1710, containing "The Scot Litany", "You comans and pears", "The New Way of ye Lass of Pegges Mill", "The Last I Came O’er the Muir", and "Lord Randal". Previously owned by ballad collector William MacMath (1848-1922).Ink note on the fly-leaf, by William MacMath: "This volume - if such it can be called - has been purchased by me from Mr Adam Smail, Bookseller, 19 North Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh. He tells...

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Gaelic ballads

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The papers of Francis Montgomery Collinson consist of music scores, correspondence, and notebooks relating to folk songs from the mid-20th century. Also present in the collection are a number of 19th century printed ballads collected by Collinson. It is unclear whether he was the original collator, or if there was an earlier collector also at work.

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Content Description This important bound volume with ms transcript of Scottish ballads had been in the ownership of Mr. Hilary Corke, a Lecturer at Edinburgh University, 1951-1955. It is one of two ms volumes known as the Harris Repertoire. Corke had 're-discovered' it in 1955. Much earlier it had been sought after by collectors Norval Clyne, the Aberdonian advocate, and by Francis James Child. It contains a book-plate with arms on the inside front-board - 'Hilary Corke'. On one...

Scope and Contents Volume containing the manuscript minutes of the West Port/Bow Yearly Society, c 1825. The minutes and accounts are largely obscured, owing to the numerous clippings and exceprts pasted in that form a scrapbook of ballads.The broadside clippings, where identified, are all printed between 1831 and 1835. Most are printed in Edinburgh, with 7 printed in Reading, England.The collator of the scrapbook is unknown, but the names of some members of the Yearly Society are...