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CATALOGUE CCII
SPRING 2013
STREET LITERATURE
III. SONGSTERS,
STREET LITERATURE REFERENCE SOURCES,
LOTTERY TICKETS & ‘PUFFS’
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SONGSTERS, STREET LITERATURE REFERENCE SOURCES,
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Cover illustration, Item 237: The Honest Ballad Singer.
Brian Lake
Janet Nassau
STREET LITERATURE:
III. Songsters, Street Literature Reference Sources,
Lottery Tickets & ‘Puffs’.
INTRODUCTION
This is the third and last in a series of three catalogues.
The first was published in 2007 - Broadsides, Slipsongs and Ballads, the second in
2008 - Chapbooks and Tracts.
Much of the Songster material on this catalogue comes from the collection of
Leslie Shepard; his obituary published in The Independent in September 2004 is
reprinted below.
The Reference section of the catalogue derives from the collections of both Shepard
and Victor Neuburg; a brief biography of the latter is also printed here.
Concluding the catalogue is an impressive collection of Lottery Tickets and ‘Puffs’,
mainly from the collection of Anne and Fernand Renier.
LESLIE SHEPARD 1917-2004
(By R. Dixon Smith)
Leslie Shepard, film-maker and collector, writer and editor, once wrote, ‘I am rather
like the young hero in Stephen Leacock’s story who leapt on his trusty steed and
galloped madly in all directions!’ Of the many diverse aspects of his life, it was for
his devotion to early cinema, however, that he was best known.
Shepard’s film collection was as renowned as his various book collections, for
he owned numerous early titles generally unavailable elsewhere. (A collection of
material relating to Shepard’s involvement with film is item 649 on this catalogue.)
Unlike many collectors, however, he was immensely generous in sharing his rarities,
and enriched the lives of hundreds of collectors throughout the world. ‘It gives me
great pleasure’, he maintained.
He was born in 1917 in West Ham, London, leaving the Day Continuation School
for Commercial Subjects in 1933. His passion for cinema had begun early, from
experience with 9.5mm film and Pathé’s library of abridged classics, and from
having been taken to see F.W. Murnau’s 1926 Faust at a local picture palace; he
remembered its full orchestral accompaniment for the rest of his life. In 1941, he
joined Paul Rotha Productions, working in the cutting room; while there, he met the
legendary German screenwriter Carl Mayer.
A conscientious objector during the Second World War, Shepard served on a Civil
Defence stretcher party. He embraced no formal religion but was sympathetic
to the basic truths of many religions, and was a self-described ‘unpolitical
humanitarian’. Later, instead of Christmas cards, he would send chapbooks to his
many friends - short monographs on such topics as yoga, economic perils or ‘The
Search for Wisdom’ (the last originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the
Day in 1977).
From 1942 to 1944 Shepard was assistant organiser and scriptwriter of a bi-monthly
newsreel for the Ministry of Information. He helped found Data Film Productions,
London, serving from 1945 to 1948 on its board of management. In 1947 he became
production manager for Mining Review, a monthly news film produced for the
National Coal Board, and in the Fifties worked on various industrial and educational
films for industry and the Central Office of Information. He became production
controlling officer and supervisor of documentary films and Public Service Television
items for BBC and independent television.
He collaborated with the German singing teacher Alfred Wolfsohn, with whom
in 1956 he issued an LP on the Folkways label in America, Vox Humana, on
extending human vocal range and interpreting its psychotherapeutic effects on
dramatic performance.
In 1958 Shepard studied yoga, Hindu metaphysics and Indian classical music in
India, where he lived for six months in a scorpion-infested temple on the banks of
the Ganges River. Yoga exercises were undertaken to repair his lungs, which had
been damaged when he worked as a young man in an asbestos warehouse. The
following year he was cinematographer, cook and carpenter in an unsuccessful
attempt to cross the Atlantic in a 28ft cutter via the Viking route, the earliest sea
route to America.
Shepard’s literary and publishing career was just as diverse. In 1965-66 he was
London Editor for University Books, New York, for whom he wrote forewords,
prefaces and introductions to more than 70 books. For Gale Research Company,
Detroit, he served as editor and researcher from 1966 until the end of his life. The
books he edited on Hinduism played a significant part in the welfare of the Hindu
community in the United Kingdom.
Publications edited by Shepard include The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories
(1977), Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology (1978), Living with Kundalini:
the autobiography of Gopi Krishna (1993) and Dracula: celebrating 100 years (1997).
His own works include The Broadside Ballad: a study in origins and meaning (1962),
John Pitts, ballad printer of Seven Dials, London, 1765-1844 (1969) and The History of
Street Literature (1973).
Shepard founded the Bram Stoker Society and co-founded the Standing Committee
of Jews, Christians and Muslims. He spoke at ecumenical conferences, was for
many years a lecturer on silent cinema, and assisted as researcher for several
silent-film documentaries produced by Kevin Brownlow, David Gill and Photoplay
Productions. He was a lifelong bibliophile, his library including a unique collection
of broadside ballads and related ephemera. And he was an early British populariser
of the Kentucky mountain dulcimer: his lecture ‘John Jacob Niles, American Folk
Singer’ was broadcast in 1963 by the BBC’s Third Programme (see item 655).
VICTOR NEUBURG 1924-1996
Victor Neuburg was born in Steyning, Sussex and educated at the University of
Leicester where he received the degree of M.Ed. in 1967. He worked as Senior
Lecturer in the School of Librarianship, Polytechnic of North London, and was
General Editor of the Woburn Press series of reprints The Social History of
Education.
Neuburg spent some time as Visiting Professor in Buffalo, New York and in Halifax,
Nova Scotia. In 1984-85 he was Samuel Foster Haven Fellow of the American
Antiquarian Society. His Fellowship publication was ‘Chapbooks in America’, in
Reading in America, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, edited by
Cathy N. Davidson.
He was author & editor of, or contributor to, over twenty publications, relating to
bibliography, to his interest in military history, and - principally - on the history of
chapbooks, popular literature and education.
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SONGSTERS
‘Songster’ is often used by historians of performance
to describe a published collection of song lyrics,
usually without music.
This definition does
not occur in the O.E.D. which confines itself to
defining a human or avian singer, or poet, and is
still reconsidering its definitions. We have found
the earliest usages in a title where ‘songster’ may
have changed its meaning: Ladies delight: or, The
merry songster. Containing a collection of above one
hundred songs ... of 1741 and also a subtitle using
Universal songster in 1742. Whether and when
there is a transference of meaning needs further
investigation. A definition on Wiktionary states
that the usage as a songbook is American.
This section of the catalogue is devoted to songbooks
of all kinds - a large part of Shepard’s accumulation
of broadside songs still remains to be catalogued.
Here we mostly list publications of three or more
songs, including traditional folk songs and
ballads in broadside collections, collections with
music published for early glee clubs, theatrical
and pleasure garden compilations and tavern
singing collections (the forerunner of music hall
performances) and songs for special groups.
More modern collections are influenced by the
growth of piano ownership, the advent of the
gramophone and the activities of political and other
organizations. Shepard made a special effort to
collect contemporary publications in the ‘songster’
tradition.
All items reflect the human pleasure in singing
together.
AMERICAN
1.
The American Minstrel: being a choice collection of
original and popular songs, glees, duetts, choruses,
&c. New and revised edn. With select music. 16mo.
Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners. Front., engr. music.
Orig. brown cloth; spine worn at head, hinges splitting,
leading f.e.p pasted down. A good sound copy.
¶BL only on Copac.
1844 2.
3
3.
4.
£25
The American Songster, containing a choice selection
of about one hundred and fifty modern and popular
songs as sung by Mr. Sloman ... Mr. Braham, ...
Stereotype edn. 32mo. New-York: Nafis & Cornish.
Front.; some internal marks. Orig. light brown roan;
sl. rubbing, minor worming in following inner hinge.
[c.1845] £65
DAYS OF ‘76
The American Songster, a collection of songs, as sung
in the iron days of 76. 32mo. Philadelphia: Fisher &
Brother. Front. of Washington; some internal marks.
Orig. pink cloth; faded & sl. marked, spine sl. affected
by damp. Alexandria, VA bookseller’s ticket.
[c.1850] £35
__________
COCKERMOUTH IMPRINT
ANDERSON, Robert. Ballads in the Cumberland
dialect, with notes, glossary, and a biographical sketch
of the Author. Cockermouth: printed by D. Fidler.
Glossary. Orig. dull green cloth; marked, spine
faded & rubbed at head & tail, paper label rubbed.
Bookplate of Wiston Old Rectory.
¶Copac records ten items published by Daniel Fidler
between 1847 & 1878, but not this.
1859 5.
£50
APOLLO. The Apollo, a collection of the most popular
songs, recitations, duets, glees, choruses, &c., &c.
Intermixed with many originals, and some of the most
favorite of Dibdin, Hudson, W.H. Freeman, &c. 12mo.
3 vols. Printed & published by H. Arliss. Fronts &
plates, illus. Half calf, gilt blocked, but lacking labels.
Bookplate of Duncan Guthrie. v.g.
¶Cohn 37, with several illustrations likely to be by
George Cruikshank.
A very attractive collection
published in 24pp parts, each with a lively woodcut
illustration, and illustrated with full page engraved
portraits of popular performers.
1830 6.
5
7.
£150
ARMES, William Dallam. Old English Ballads and
Folk Songs; selected and edited by William Dallam
Armes.
New York:
Macmillan Co. (Macmillan’s
Pocket American and English Classics.) Half title with
ads in prelims, fronts., 6pp ads. Orig. brown cloth;
sl. rubbing.
1917 £15
DIALECT SONGS
ARMSTRONG, Thomas.
Song Book containing
25 popular songs of the later Thomas Armstrong;
compiled by his son W.H. Armstrong. 3rd edn.
Chester-le-Street: Noel Wilson. Stabbed as issued in
green wraps; staples rusting. 42pp.
¶Songs, some in County Durham dialect by ‘the
Pitman poet’, first published in 1909, and copyright in
1930. This edition was published after the death of
W.H. Armstrong in 1953. No editions in BL and only
Durham & Newcastle (wrongly dated?) on Copac.
[c.1955] £20
ARNOLD, Samuel James
The words of songs were often published to
accompany productions at the major theatres.
For similar word books, see at Dibdin.
8.
(The Devil’s Bridge.) Songs, Duets, Chorusses, &c. in
the operatic romance of The Devil’s Bridge. Performed
for the first time at the Theatre-Royal, Lyceum, on
Wednesday, May 6, 1812. Printed and published by
J. Barker. Disbound. 23, (1)pp.
¶This first edition not on Copac.
1814 9
9.
£45
(Foul Deeds Will Rise.) Songs, Duets, &c. in the
musical drama of ‘Foul deeds will rise’, as performed
at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
Printed &
published by Barker & Son. Half title, title vignette.
Disbound. 18pp.
¶Not on Copac.
[1804] £45
10. (Frederick the Great.) Songs, Duetts, Chorusses, etc.
in the new operatick anecdote, in three acts, called
Frederick the Great; or, The heart of a soldier. First
performed at the Theatre Royal, Lyceum, on Thursday,
Aug. 4, 1814. The overture and musick by Mr. T.
Cooke. John Miller. Disbound. 18, (2)pp.
¶See also item 154.
1814 £30
ARNOLD, Samuel James continued
11. (The Shipwreck.) Songs, Duetts, Chorusses, &c., in
The Shipwreck: a comick opera, in two acts, performed
at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane, the musick by
Dr. Arnold. Printed by C. Lowndes, and sold in the
theatre. Disbound. 15pp.
¶ESTC T49479; 3/2 locations.
[1797] £45
12. (The Unknown Guest.) Songs, Duets, Chorusses, &c.
in the new opera, in three acts, called The Unknown
Guest; first performed at the Theatre-Royal, DruryLane, on Wednesday, March 29, 1815. The musick by
Mr. Kelly and Mr. Braham. The overture by Mr. Kelly.
Printed for John Miller. Disbound. 21, (1)pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac.
1815 11
£45
VETERAN TAR
13. (The Veteran Tar.) The Songs Choruses, &c. in The
Veteran Tar, a comic opera, in two acts, first performed
at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Thursday, January
29, 1801. The music composed by Doctor Arnold.
Printed by C. Lowndes, and sold in the Theatre.
Disbound. 19pp.
¶Not on Copac.
1801 £50
BROWN MAN OF THE MOOR
14. (The Wizard.) Songs, Duets, Chorusses, &c. in the
new melo-dramatick romance, called, The Wizard; or,
Brown man of the moor. First performed Saturday,
July 26, 1817, at the Theatre Royal, English Opera
House. The musick entirely new, ... composed by Mr.
Horn. Printed by C. Lowndes, and sold in the theatre
(only). Disbound. 14pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac. A version of Walter Scott’s
‘The Black Dwarf’.
[1817] __________
£50
ASHTON, John
See also items 364-377, 897 & 898.
15. Modern Street Ballads. Chatto & Windus. Front. &
illus., title in red & black, final ad. leaf. Orig. blue
pict. cloth. Stamp of James Archibald, Buckie. v.g.
bright copy.
¶An anthology with some original illustrations.
1888 14
£60
16. Real Sailor-Songs; collected and ed. by John Ashton.
Folio. The Leadenhall Press. Title in red & black, illus.,
facsims., 4pp cata. Orig. half vellum; sl. discoloured
with minor splits. Good-plus copy.
¶Reprinting broadsides and slipsongs with contemporary & later illustrations. With a cutting of a long
review from the Daily Telegraph inserted. For other
shanties and sailor songs, see items 269, 279 & 527.
1891 £150
17. Real Sailor-Songs; introduced by A.L. Lloyd. Folio.
Broadsheet King. Half title, illus. Orig. blue cloth. v.g.
1973 [1891] £40
__________
PHILADELPHIA
18. AUNER, A.W., Song Publisher & Printer. Slipsongs
issued by this printer from various addresses in
Philadelphia. One eighth sheets; some sl. browned or
chipped at edges.
¶1.Apple of My Eye;
2. The Birds Awakening;
3. My Native Land;
4. My Poor Heart is Sad with its Dreaming;
5. Norah the Pride of Kildare. Illus.;
6. Old Bob Ridley, O;
7. Old Log Cabin by the Stream. Or Uncle Joe;
8. Old Log Cabin on the Hill. By Frank Dumont;
9. Old Rustic Bridge by the Mill;
10.Old Wooden Rocker;
11.Papa Where’s My Mamma Gone?;
12.Sally Horner ‘Round the corner;
13.Drunkard’s Dream. (Photocopy).
With a very similar song without imprint: One More
Ribber for to Cross, Words by James Hosey. (Music
published by W.F. Shaw, Philadelphia.)
[c.1880] 18
£60
19. BALLAD. The Ballad Minstrelsy of Scotland. Romantic
and Historical. Collated and annotated. New and revised
edn. Paisley & London: Alexander Gardner. Half title,
title in red & black; a few pencil marks & figure drawing
on e.p. Orig. green cloth; spine rubbed at head.
¶The preface dated Glasgow, 1871.
1893 £20
20. BALLADS. Ballads: Scottish and English. With
illus. by J. Lawson. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo.
(Nimmo’s Crown library.) Half title, added engr. title,
plates, 16pp cata. (3.67); the odd spot. Orig. dark
green cloth; dulled, sl. rubbed, sm. hole in spine,
inner hinges cracking.
[1867] £20
AUSTRALIAN BALLADS
21. BANDICOOT. Bandicoot Ballads. No. 2-16. 4to.
Wynnum, Queensland: John Manifold. Printed by
Simpson Halligan, Brisbane.
(Rams Skull Press,
Lwr Ferntree Gully, Victoria.) Single sheet broadside
ballads, lino-cut illus. by Ronald G. Edwards, in two
printed card folders; sl. sunned.
¶Lacking no. 1: The wild colonial boy. With Black Bull
Chapbooks, no. 4 & 7 also published by the Rams
Skull Press: Hugh Anderson, Songs of Billy Barlow,
1956 & Australian Song Index, 1957. With also:
Six authentic songs from the Kelly Country, issued
in commemoration; the death of Ned Kelly 75th
anniversary. Folio. Bush Music Club publication (A.
Scott, Woolloomooloo), 1955, with words & music.
1954-56 22
£50
22. BARING-GOULD, Sabine.
English Minstrelsie:
a
national monument of English Song; collated and edited,
with notes and historical introductions, by S. BaringGould. The airs, in both notations, arranged by H.
Fleetwood Sheppard, F.W. Bussell; & W.H. Hopkinson.
Vols. I-VI, VIII (lacking vol. VII). 4to. 7 vols. Edinburgh:
T.C. & E.C. Jack. Half titles, engr. portraits, titles in red
& black, music. Orig. olive green cloth, blocked in gilt &
black; some sl. rubbed & marked.
¶A large collection of popular songs with fine portraits
of the most popular singers. (See also item 534)
[1895-96] £85
FOLK SONGS FOR SCHOOLS
23. BARING-GOULD, Sabine & SHARP, Cecil J. English
Folk-Songs for Schools. Collected and arranged by
S. Baring Gould and Cecil J. Sharp. 5th edn. Folio.
J. Curwen & Sons. (Curwen edition, 5120.) Printed
music. Orig. brown card wraps, brown cloth spine; sl.
creasing at corners.
¶First published in 1906. TOGETHER WITH: a later
sl. smaller edition (6051) [1936?], a copy of the Words
edition (6051) 3/38, and the music solfa and words
in ‘Eight English Folk-songs for Schools’ (6355), n.d.
[c.1910] 24
£35
MOORFIELD, LONDON IMPRINT
24. BATCHELAR, Thomas. Batchelar’s Cottage Warbler:
containing a rare selection of the newest and most
admired songs now extant. Batchelar, printer, Long
Alley, Moorfields. Vignette. A single sheet, folded as
issued, but one fold splitting; creased at fore-edge, sl.
dusted. 8pp.
¶BL & Oxford only on Copac. 10 songs: 1. Blue-ey’d stranger.
[c.1820] £45
25. BEADLE & ADAMS. Beadle’s Half Dime Singer’s
Library: comic and sentimental songs of all nations
and ages. No.10. Folio. New York: Beadle & Adams.
Col. illus., two column text. Large single sheet folded
as issued and unopened with one corner cut across
in margin & minor tears at edges, one fold partly
strengthened. 16pp.
¶58 songs beginning with ‘I’m the governor’s only son’.
[1878] £25
26. BEE HIVE. The Bee Hive, or, The sips of the seasons.
Being a choice collection, of the newest songs, now
singing at all public places of amusement. 4to. J. Pitts,
printer. Vignette. Folded as issued & unopened. 8pp.
¶Shepard p.105 & 142, but not on Copac. Containing 18 songs.
26
[c.1825?] £50
27. BELFAST. The Belfast Comic Songster: a selection of
the best Irish songs, as sung in character by the most
popular actors of the day. Glasgow: John Cameron.
Sl. browned. Orig. yellow pict. wraps. 36pp. v.g.
¶An earlier Belfast edition at Oxford, but this edition
not on Copac.
[c.1880?] £50
BELL, Robert
28. Ancient Poems: ballads and songs of the peasantry
of England taken down from oral recitation and
transcribed from private manuscripts ...;
edited
by Robert Bell. John W. Parker & Son. (Annotated
edition of the English poets.) Orig. brown cloth; spine
sl. faded, paper label.
1857 £35
29. Early Ballads illustrative of history, traditions and
customs; edited by Robert Bell. Charles Griffin & Co.
8pp ads. Orig. red cloth, paper label chipped.
¶Originally published in 1856; this is a remainder
issue. Includes three Robin Hood ballads.
27
[c.1860?] £35
BELL, Robert continued
30. Songs from the Dramatists; edited by Robert Bell. John
W. Parker & Son. Prelims. sl. damp marked. Contemp.
green binder’s cloth, maroon leather label. v.g.
¶From Nicholas Udall to R.B. Sheridan.
1854 __________
£45
AS SUNG IN THE CLUBS
31. BELLAMY, Thomas Ludford. Lyric Poetry of Glees,
Madrigals, Catches, Rounds, Canons, and Duets.
As performed in the noblemen and gentlemen’s
Catch Club, the Glee Club, the Melodists Club, the
Adelphi Glee Club, and all vocal societies of the United
Kingdom. Printed by Richard & John Edward Taylor.
To be had of Mr. Bellamy. 6pp subscriber’s list. Sl.
later full red calf, bands, gilt borders, spine faded,
green label. a.e.g. v.g.
¶With the name of the subscriber James Lord lettered
on the spine and Bellamy on the front board, and
with a cutting about Samuel Webbe the composer
tipped in. A superior collection, laid out a little like
a hymn book.
31
1840 £55
TOM & JERRY:
TAVERN SONGS CHAUNTED BY KIDDY COVIES
32. BEULER, Jacob. Bob Logic’s Memoranda: an original
budget of staves, nightly chaunted by Kiddy Covies,
Knights of the Darkey &c. &c. at every Free and Easy
throughout the Metropolis: by way of prelude to the
sprees of “Life in London” ... Printed for J. Lowndes.
Col. front., duplicate 2pp ads on yellow paper.
Stabbed as issued with remains of blue (recased)
printed wraps. In folding cloth case; sl. rubbing. A
good copy of a rare survival. 34, (2)pp.
¶Sole copy on Copac is in BL dated [1825?]. With
an additional printed titlepage at end as ‘Songs,
Humorous and Satirical, to popular tunes, and
dialogues, adapted for the stage and concert room’
written by J. Beuler, 1822. The frontispiece depicts
Wilkinson as Bob Logic in Tom & Jerry. Beuler who
died in 1873 was a popular song writer. ‘Life in
London’ was a play by C.I.M. Dibdin, 1821, based on
Pierce Egan’s book.
[1822] £350
SETTE OF ODD VOLUMES
33. BEVAN, Paul. The Lay of the Odd Volumes; words by
Wilsey Martin, music by Paul Bevan. Novello Ewer &
Co. (For private circulation only.) Music. Orig. pale
blue wraps printed in red. 3pp.
¶Guildhall Library only on Copac. Dedicated to the
Sette of Odd Volumes, an eccentric club of bibliophiles,
and first performed on 5th April 1895. ‘All men are
human volumes.’
1895 £20
34. BICKHAM, George. The Musical Entertainer; engraved
by George Bickham. A facsimile of the 1740 London
edition. 2 vols. Folio. New York: Broude Brothers.
(Monuments of music and music literature in facsimile.
1st series - music, vol. VI.) Illus., music. 2 vols in 1 in
cream buckram; sl. marked, black title label. v.g.
¶Airs with flute accompaniment and attractive
vignettes of 18th century contemporary life.
32
1965 £45
35. BIRMINGHAM ART SCHOOL. A Book of Pictured
Carols. Designed under the direction of Arthur J.
Gaskin. (Designed by members of the Birmingham Art
School.) FIRST EDITION. 4to. George Allen. Vignette
& illus. Uncut in orig. grey printed boards; sl. marked,
pale brown buckram spine, sl. worn.
¶Printed at the Chiswick Press.
1893 £20
36. BIRMINGHAM ART SCHOOL. A Book of Pictured
Carols. ... 2nd edn. 4to. George Allen. Title in red &
black, vignette & illus.; the odd mark. Uncut in orig.
grey boards, printed in red; sl. marked, pale brown
buckram spine. v.g.
¶Apparently partly a remainder issue of the original
sheets.
1896 35
£25
IRISH SONGS
37. BLAKE, Dinny. The Sprig of Shillelah: a collection of
the most humorous and popular Irish songs. Compiled
by Dinny Blake. With a glossary. 32mo. David Bryce.
Front. port of Samuel Lover; some marginal tears, one
corner missing, no loss of text. Orig. brown cloth at some
time rebacked, retaining most of spine strip. Cancelled
labels and blind stamps of Harvard College Library.
1852 £30
BLONDIN, THE TRAPEZE ARTIST
38. BLONDIN, Jean François. Blondin’s Great Excitement
Songster. J.T. Wood. Hand-col. illus. on p.1. Single
sheet folded & unopened. Sl. dusted & creased at
edges. (16pp.)
¶Not on Copac. 20 named + 34 others. The illustration
is of ‘M. Blondin wheeling his daughter across the
rope, at the Crystal Palace, June 15, 1861’. The
running head is ‘New and favourite songs’. Blondin
is also known as Charles: his real name was Jean
François Gravelet.
[c.1861] 38
£150
TAVERN SONGS
39. BLOOMER. The Bloomer Song book, containing the best
collection of songs, recitations, toasts and sentiments
of the present day. n.p. Stabbed in orig. glazed green
wraps; a little creased.
¶Not on Copac. A very poorly printed work, not all pages
caught in the stabbing. The pages are unnumbered
after 4 and poorly imposed, perhaps suggesting that
the content was variable, depending on current topics
like the newly fashionable women’s dress: the titlepage
has Part I on its verso. Composers’, publishers’ and
singers’ names are sometimes given and ‘The Bloomer’,
the title song, on p.(17) is by Charles Sloman, the
early tavern singer famed for improvisation, who may
possibly be behind the collection.
1853 £125
1001 SONGS FOR THE MILLION
40. BOOK. The Book of 1001 Songs; or Songs for the
million. 32mo. New York: Wm H. Murphy. Front &
illus.; some spotting & damp marking. Black embossed
calf, retaining most of orig. gilt blocked spine.
¶Published in 3 parts each with running head ‘Popular
songs’; the indexes are confusingly still separate
under their original titles. The frontispiece is ‘For-getme-not’. With additional general title and frontispiece
on yellow paper dated 1853 bound in at front.
40
[1853] £75
BORDER BALLADS
41. BORDER. Border Ballads; selected and decorated
with woodcuts by Douglas Percy Bliss; foreword by
Herbert J.C. Grierson. Oxford Univ. Press. Half title,
illus; a few spots. Uncut in orig. blue boards, blue
cloth spine; corners sl. knocked. d.w. torn.
1925 £20
42. BORDMAN, G.N., Mrs. The Temperance Clarion.
A new book of original choruses and part-songs,
for juvenile clubs and temperance organizations.
Composed by Mrs. G.N. Bordman. Melrose, Mass.:
P.O. Box 231. Music. Without wrapper. Withdrawn
stamps &c. from Harvard College Library. 36pp.
1881 £20
44
BOWER OF APOLLO
43. BOWER. The Bower of Apollo: containing a select
collection of the newest and most approved songs, sung
at the London theatres & other places of amusement,
convivial meetings, &c. Printed for and sold by J.
Pitts. Vignette. Folded as issued & unopened; sl.
torn without loss, dusted at edges. 8pp.
¶Oxford only for this edition on Copac, dating it
between 1802 & 1809? Shepard p.142. Containing
16 songs.
[c.1809?] £50
44. BRILLIANT. The Brilliant Songster: or, Universal
vocalist, comprising all the newest and most favourite
gems of song, singing at the Theatres Royal, Nobility’s
Concerts and other places of public amusement.
Arranged, printed and published by W.T. Moncrieff.
No. 4. Sold by John Fairburn; J. Fairburn; and all
booksellers. Engr. front. by Alfred Crowquill. Stabbed
in orig. cream wraps. pp.97-128.
¶Not recorded on Copac. The address on the back
wrapper discusses the increasing interest in music
and states that the first song in each number will be
by Moncrieff. It details the plan of publication.
[c.1830] £30
BRITISH
45. The British Melodist, a collection of popular songs.
New edn. Printed by & for Richard Walwyn; and sold
by all booksellers. Front. port of Charles Dibdin, one
woodcut illus. Contemp. half calf, gilt spine, brown
label. a.e.g.
¶Two copies only on Copac, both in Oxford.
1824 £125
46. The British Minstrel, a collection of popular songs.
Durham: printed by George Walker, jun. Folded as
issued. Disbound. 24pp.
¶21 songs.
1839 45
£25
47. British Minstrelsie: a representative collection of
the songs of the four nations; the melodies in both
notations, the arrangements by John Greig; Joseph
Parry; F.W. Bussell; H. Fleetwood Sheppard; and
A.W. Hopkinson. With articles, notes and illustrations.
6 vols. 4to. Caxton Publishing Co. Half titles, plates,
BRITISH continued
music. Orig. black roan; some rubbing & chipping at
heads & tails of spines, sl. affected by damp.
¶A companion work to Sabine Baring-Gould’s English
Minstrelsie (item 22). Traditional and popular songs.
[c.1915] £150
48. The British Neptune; or, Convivial Songster: being a
collection of the newest and most approved songs ...
Printed by Howard & Evans. Blurred vignette. Single
sheet folded & unopened. 8pp. v.g.
¶Variously dated on Copac between 1800 & 1813. 20
songs: 1. The Almanack maker.
[c.1810] 47
£50
49. The British Orpheus; being a selection of two hundred
and seventy songs and airs, adapted for the voice,
violin, German flute, flagelet, &c. ...
Stourport:
printed & published by George Nicholson. Front.,
printed music, engr. tailpieces.
Handsome red
straight grained morocco, gilt spine & part borders,
gilt dentelles. Bookplates of Thos. Gaisford, Alfred
Baldwin 1903 and William Crampton. t.e.g. v.g.
¶A ms. note at the end in French adds a French
text version of ‘God save the King’ from a memoir of
1834. An inserted note by a previous owner debates
whether this is in the hand of AB or LB.
[1810?] £150
50. The British Songster. 16mo. Printed & published by W.S.
Johnson. Illus., text in two columns, poor impression on
one page. Stabbed as issued; dusted. 48pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac.
[c.1860?] __________
49
£45
51. BROADSIDE. Broadside. (The national topical song
magazine.) No. 15, 48, 68. Nov. 1962, July 1964,
March 1966. 3 parts. 4to. New York: Box 193, &c.
Illus., music. Stapled as issued.
¶Duplicated text with songs by well known
contemporary singers: Ballad of Oxford, Mississippi
by Phil Ochs, Pete & Peggy Seeger, The Art of Bob
Dylan’s ‘Hattie Carroll’.
1962-66 £35
W.B. YEATS
52. BROADSIDE. A Broadside. Published monthly. 4to.
No. 2-12; 2nd year no. 1-4, 7, 12; 3rd year no. 1, 3, 4,
5, 9; 4th year no. 1, 3, 4; 5th year no. 1-4; 6th year
no.1-4, 10; 7th year no. 1; New series 1935 no. 4,
8-10, 12; new series July 1937 no. 7. Dublin: Cuala
Press, &c. Hand col. illus., music. Each issue a single
folded sheet; some nos. spotted, sl. dusted, one with
tear at margin, 6th year no. 3 disbound.
¶Folk songs, ballads, &c. by W.B. Yeats and others.
Each issue published in 300 copies, from no. 4 by E.C.
Yeats; new series ed. by W.B. Yeats and F.R. Higgins;
mostly illus. by Jack B. Yeats.
1908-37 52
£2,500
53. BROADSIDES. Broadsides. A collection of old and
new songs. 1935. (A collection of new Irish and
English songs. 1937.) 2 vols. Folio. Shannon: Irish
Univ. Press. Col. illus., music. Orig. grey boards. v.g.
¶A photolitho reprint collected edition of the two New
Series of ‘Broadsides’ edited by W.B. Yeats, F.R.
Higgins and Dorothy Wellesley, with illus. by Jack B.
Yeats and others.
1971 £50
GREAT WAR SONGS & SLANG
54. BROPHY, John & PARTRIDGE, Eric. Songs and
Slang of the British Soldier: 1914-1918; ed. by John
Brophy and Eric Partridge. Partridge at the Scholartis
Press. Half title, final ad. leaf. Orig. orange cloth;
rather dulled with sm. tear in spine.
1930 £25
55. BRUSHFIELD, Thomas Nadauld. The Broadside
Ballads of Devonshire and Cornwall, with notes as
to their collection, &c. Reprinted from the ‘Western
Antiquary’. Plymouth: W.H. Luke. Front. port.,
plate, illus. Stabbed in orig. grey printed wraps; sl.
dusted. xi pp.
¶Glasgow only on Copac. Author’s presentation
inscription to A. Willis.
1887 56
£35
56. BULL-FINCH. The Bull-Finch, being a choice collection
of the newest and most favourite English songs which
have been sett to music and sung at the public theatres
& gardens. 12mo. Printed for R. Baldwin, R. Horsfield,
and J. Wilkie. Engr. front., titlepage engraved, vertical
chain lines. Skilfully rebound, possibly using old calf,
pastedowns replaced. Signature of Anne Galliard,
April 12 1765 on titlepage. v.g.
¶ESTC N15219, 2 copies only (Bodleian & Harvard).
A scarce edition of this popular collection.
[1765?] £225
57. BULLY. The Bully Songster. Boston: Horace Partridge
& Co. Large folio broadside sheet of newsprint quality;
browned and brittle at edges.
¶Unrecorded. 17 songs: (1) Turnpike gate. The
‘fighters of the present’ are boxers, and Jack Dempsey
is a lightweight champion. A scarce survival.
[c.1914] 58
£45
BUNKER HILL SONGSTER
58. BUNKER HILL. The Bunker Hill Songster. Containing
national and patriotic songs. As sung by the principal
vocalists. 32mo. New-York: (Wm H.) Murphy, printer
& publisher. Illus. Orig. yellow illus. wraps. included
in pagination. (36)pp. v.g.
[c.1850?] £50
59. BURTON, William Evans. Burton’s Comic Songster:
being entirely a new collection of original and popular
songs, as sung by Mr. Burton, Mr. Tyrone Power, Mr.
John Reeve, ... Edited by W.E. Burton. 32mo. NewYork: Richard Marsh. Illus.; some damp staining
at fore-edge. Later marbled boards; sl. rubbing.
Bookplate of David Flather.
¶Burton began his career in England but abandoned
his wife and moved to America. The preface states
that he had bowdlerised the songs for family
consumption, and also attempts to affirm copyright.
1853 £45
MONSTROUS GOOD SONGS
60. BUSY. The Busy Bee, being a selection of monstrous
good songs, now singing at the different places of
polite and public amusement. Printed by J. Evans.
Vignette. Single sheet, folded & unopened. v.g. 8pp.
¶Variously dated on Copac between [1795?] & [1820?]
35 songs: 1. Dolly Thimble.
[c.1812] £65
CHAMBERS, Robert
60
61. Popular Rhymes of Scotland, with illustrations,
chiefly collected from oral sources. FIRST EDITION.
Edinburgh: William Hunter, Charles Smith & Co. &
James Duncan, London. Half title. Contemp. half
green morocco; a little rubbed.
¶The illustrations are verbal.
1826 £85
62. Popular Rhymes of Scotland. New edn. London &
Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers. Half title, title
vignette; some foxing. Orig. green cloth; spine dulled
& sl. rubbed.
1870 £35
63. The Scottish Ballads; collected and illustrated by
Robert Chambers.
FIRST EDITION.
Edinburgh:
printed by Ballantyne & Co., for William Tait. Half
title; a few marks in text. Later half brown morocco;
leading hinge sl. weakening.
¶Coronet & L stamp on spine with booklabel of
Newbattle Abbey, home to William Burn & David Bryce,
the architects who pioneered ‘Scottish Baronial’.
1829 __________
£85
CHANGE. Change for a penny. See item 206.
CATNACH ‘PRINTED CHEAP’
64. CHAPLET. The Chaplet. The Rose. New songs. J.
Catnach, printer. 2 illus. Two quarter sheet songsters
joined together to form one long broadside in three
columns; sl. dusted at head.
¶The first song in ‘The Chaplet’ is ‘Charly is my
darling’ sung, like others, by Katherine Stevens,
and the first song in ‘The Rose’ which has different
contents from J. Pitt’s broadside, (see item 279) is ‘The
Last Rose’. Here ‘The Answer to the Castilian Maid,
by J.C.’ is dated Jan. 13, 1820; another song is as
sung by John Braham. In ‘The Chaplet’ a song about
Highland Katy is signed ‘Quod J.C. - May 30, 1822’.
[1822?] 65
£65
65. CHARMER. The Charmer: a choice collection of
songs, Scots and English. The second edition. 12mo.
Edinburgh: printed for J. Yair. Title in red & black.
Contemp. speckled calf, red label. A v.g. clean copy.
¶ESTC T73495: 6 copies in Britain and 5 in US.
With signature of Douglas Grant 1948 and his note
of provenance from Alexander Fraser Tytler and
containing a few earlier ink notes about authorship.
1752 £225
CHOICE
A Choice Collection of All the New and Favorite Songs.
See item 212.
CHOICE continued
Choice Collection of Comic Songs. See item 209.
66. A Choice Collection of Tyneside Songs, by Wilson,
Corvan, Mitford, Gilchrist, Robson, Harrison, Emery,
Ridley. Oliver, Shield, &c., &c., &c., with lives of the
authors, ... Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Allan; North
Shields: Ralph Allan. Half title, front., illus. contemp.
half calf; sl. rubbed. v.g.
¶An enlargement in 373pp of an earlier collection.
There is no page 182, the verso of p.(181) being
numbered 183 with unconventional numbering for the
rest of the volume.
1873 __________
£85
67. CITY. The City Songster; being an entire new and
choice collection of the most approved songs now
singing at the Theatres Royal, and convivial societies.
(P)rinted by J. Evans & Son. City arms vignette.
Single sheet, folded & unopened. v.g. 8pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac. 13 songs: 1. Smithfield wife.
[c.1813] 66
£50
68. CLARK, George Whitfield. The Liberty Minstrel. 5th
edn. New-York: published by the Author. Music. Red
binder’s cloth with pressmark. Stamps & cancelled
label of Columbia University Libraries.
1846 £30
NINETEEN PENNY PARTS
69. CLARK, William Mark. Clark’s Orphean Warbler.
Containing a choice collection of nearly two thousand
favourite songs, glees, duets, &c., so popular at the
present time as sung at the theatres, public concerts
&c. in London. W.M. Clark. Probably lacking pp.127128, the final leaf of Part 4. Orig. red cloth; darkened
& creased, e.ps early replaced, leading inner hinge
splitting.
¶This edition BL, NLW & Oxford only on Copac.
Published in 19 penny parts with initial indexes, the
text in two columns, and with some pages containing
advertisements for Clark’s cheap literature issued
in 1848. An 1848 edition is described as edited by
Hawkins A. D’Alton.
[c.1850?] £90
RIGHTS OF MAN IN A RIGHT LIGHT
70. COLLECTION. A Collection of Choice Songs, consisting
of Rights of Man in a right light. Loyal & royal; or,
Good King George. And John Bull out of his element.
n.p. [London?] A single sheet folded and unopened as
issued; sl. creased & marked in margins, tear at tail
of one fold not affecting text.
¶Not in ESTC or on Copac. Crown & royal arms
watermark. Patriotic songs against Paine and his
ideas, and the French Revolution.
70
[c.1793?] £200
71. COLLECTION. A Collection of Songs, chiefly such as
are eminent for poetical merit; among which are many
originals, and others that were never before printed
in a song-book. 12mo. Printed for T. Longman. A
few marks in text. Quarter speckled calf, fairly recent
blocked paper on boards. Signature of Douglas Grant,
& chipped booklabel of the eccentric Charles Clark of
Great Totham.
¶ESTC N22983: 3 copies only: TCD, Harvard,
Alexander Turnbull only. Also issued in Edinburgh as
Vol. II of ‘The Charmer’ 1782.
1782 £150
72. (COLLINS, Sam) The Only Book containing Sam
Collin’s celebrated song of Dearly you must pay for
your Mutton, and other popular comic and sentimental
songs now being sung at the various music halls in
London. Printed by W.S. Fortey. (W.S. Fortey’s new
series.) Illus. Folded as issued. Creased & sl. torn at
edges. (16pp.)
¶Not recorded on Copac. 33 songs, toasts & sentiments.
Sam Collins, 1827-1865, established Collins’ Music
Hall in Islington. Some of the pages of this ‘A Collection
of favourite Songs’ (running head) resemble pressed
quarter sheet broadsides with illustrations at head;
the final page is printed sideways. P.5 is wrongly
imposed with the two columns reversed.
[c.1868?] £40
COMIC
72
73. The Comic Album; or, Reciter & Comic Singer’s PocketBook. Nos. (1), 12. 16mo. Orlando Hodgson. Col.
fronts. Orig. green or drab printed wraps. Stamp of the
Frank Cradley Co.(?) Theatre. pp.1-16, 177-192. a.e.g.
¶Nottingham & NLS only on Copac. Three miniature
penny parts, including ‘Patience’, Southey’s ‘Mary the
Maid of the Inn’, and with a long recitation with patter
‘A Christening in Aldermanbury’. Not in BL. Including
a second copy of No. (1) as 17 in pencil with a different
frontispiece. No. 12 has stamp of the Frank Bradley
Co. Theatre with a.e.g.
[c.1835] £45
74. The Comic Album and the Comic Minstrel combined:
containing a great variety of recitations and comic
songs, &c. &c. &c. Published for the booksellers. Half
title, front. of Richard Suett after De Wilde. Orig. red
cloth; dulled & marked. a.e.g.
¶First published in 1848, one copy only on Copac at
Oxford; this edition not recorded.
1854 £45
The Comic Minstrel. See item 208.
75. Comic Songs sung by Mr. H. Copeland at the principal
concerts. Glasgow: John Cameron. Orig. beige wraps
with port.; sl. dusted. 53pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac. Price 2d with ‘principal theatres’
on front wrap. Including songs written by Copeland.
75
[c.1880?] £35
76. The Comic Songs of Merry England, containing a
collection of the most popular songs of the day.
Glasgow: David Jack & Son. Tears with loss in lower
margin of pp 17-18 & 23-24. Stabbed as issued in
orig. col. printed wraps; torn at head without loss,
lower outer corner torn in margin.
¶NLS only on Copac. On wrapper ‘The New Comic
Songs of Merry England’. Including music hall songs.
[c.1880?] £40
COMIC continued
The Comic Songster. See item 207.
The Comic Vocalist. See item 216.
77. The Comic Vocalist’s Pocket Album of Great
Comic Songs. Charles Sheard “Musical Bouquet”
Office. Ports. Retaining orig., sl. torn, yellow front.
wrap; dusted.
¶Oxford only on Copac. 111 songs as sung by
9 famous singers whose portraits appear on the
titlepage & front wrapper. Performers include George
Leybourne, Alfred Vance, Herbert Campbell, Arthur
Roberts; &c. the first song is ‘Champagne Charlie’.
In part an advertisement for the Musical Bouquet’s
full scores.
[c.1868] __________
£35
78. COMUS. The Comus’s Chaplet, being a choice
collection of 21 songs. Nottingham: printed by
Burbage & Stretton. Single sheet of greyish paper
folded as issued; sl. browned. 8pp.
¶ESTC T300830 (4to); Oxford only; Copac records
4 other locations. 21 songs: 1. The Cottager’s
Daught[er]. The last song is ‘The girl I left behind me’,
referring to the battle of Gibraltar.
78
[c.1800?] £120
HARRY COX ARCHIVE
79. COX, Harry. A Collection of Manuscript, Typescript
& Printed Material by and relating to the celebrated
Norfolk folk singer Harry Cox, 1885-1971. Folio
scrapbook, 3 exercise books & loose material, press
cuttings, &c.
79
¶Cox’s ms. song texts in ink & pencil in exercise
books, hand & typewritten sheets, with his collection
of Edwardian printed songsters (some worn), some
published by McGlennon or Novello; a file of cuttings
of articles by Sprite on folk topics from the ‘Eastern
Evening News’, Dec. 1928-31, and other cuttings on
the East Coast floods of 1953, growing your own
tobacco, &c.; a photocopied Appreciation of Cox by
Leslie Shepard following his visits to meet Cox, 1995,
with copies of 2 letters from him to Cox’s daughter;
and a copy of ‘Sixty years of folk’, EFDSS, 1971,
containing a photograph of Cox. Harry Fred Cox,
1885-1971, a Norfolk farm worker and ‘one of the
most important singers of traditional English music of
the twentieth century’.
The three manuscript books of songs are as follows:
1. Apparently in the hand of Laura Cox 1905.
11 songs.
2. ‘H. Cox’ July 27th 1913. 12 songs beginning
with ‘Titanic’.
3. ‘Harry Cox’ Sep. 5th / 9 / 13. 11 songs.
Tipped into the scrapbook with printed songsters,
manuscript or typescript, 12 songs.
[c.1905-71] £650
CANADA
80. CREIGHTON, Helen. Songs and Ballads from Nova
Scotia; collected by Helen Creighton. 4to. Toronto &
Vancouver: J.M. Dent & Sons. Half title, front., music.
Orig. dark blue pict. cloth by Reginald Knowles.
1933 £25
81. CROKER, Thomas Crofton.
The Popular Songs
of Ireland. Collected and edited, with introds and
notes, by T. Crofton Croker. FIRST EDITION. Henry
Colburn. Orig. dark green cloth. v.g., crisp copy.
1839 £120
82. CROMEK, Robert Hartley. Remains of Nithsdale and
Galloway Song. Paisley: Alexander Gardner. Half
title. Orig. brown cloth, printed label; spine & label
darkened.
¶A new printing of the edition of 1810, which contains
many poems by Alan Cunningham. Blake attacked
Cromek, perhaps over this deception.
1880 £25
CRUIKSHANK, George
See items 5, 97, 98, 167 & 332; also, in the Reference
section, items 504 & 623, and at Lotteries.
83. (CUNNINGHAM, Peter) The Songs of England and
Scotland. 2 vols. James Cochrane & Co. Fronts,
added engr. titles. Orig. green cloth, the two vols in
sl. different shades, attractively blocked at heads of
spines; sl. fading. v.g.
¶The words only, dedicated to the poet Allan
Cunningham by his son.
1835 84
£85
84. CUPID. Cupid, Wounded! Or, The mischievous bee;
being a collection of entire new songs sung at all the
places of public amusement. Printed for & sold by J.
Pitts. Vignette. Single sheet on greyish paper, folded
as issued, unopened; dusted at edges. 8pp.
¶Not listed by Shepard.
[c.1820?] £60
CYCLOPÆDIA
85. The Cyclopædia of Popular Songs. Printed for the
proprietors and sold by all booksellers. Engr. title
with vignette, one corner torn; text spotted. Contemp.
half black calf; boards rubbed.
¶Not in BL. In two parts of 348, xii pp, each with text
title ‘The Social Songster’ and running head ‘Popular
and choice songs’. The title vignette is engraved after
Stothard. The collection seems to have been reissued
later by both Thomas and William Tegg.
[c.1840?] £45
86. The Cyclopædia of Popular Songs. 12mo. Printed for
the proprietors & sold by all booksellers. (Printed by
J. Haddon, Finsbury.) Engraved title with vignette,
text in two columns; short pencil index at end. Orig.
brown cloth; spine sl. faded. v.g.
¶A remainder issue of ‘The Social Songster’ in two
parts without the toasts and Sentiments.
[c.1845?] 85
£85
87. Cyclopædia of Popular Songs. Sentimental, national,
naval, military, jovial and comic. 12mo. William Tegg.
(Printed by Billing, Guildford.) Front., title vignette,
plates, text in two columns. Orig. brown cloth; sl.
rubbing. v.g.
¶A remainder issue of ‘Tegg’s Social Songster’ in two
parts, with running heads ‘Popular and choice songs’.
[c.1860?] __________
£40
88. CYPRESS.
The Cypress Wreath. Printed by J.
Catnach. Large illus. of ‘The Smugglers attacked’ in
ornamental frame. Double sheet length broadside
songster in three columns; sl. creased.
¶The first song is ‘Wreath the bowl’. The illustration
refers to a song relating the death of Ben Block the
smuggler. Another song is as sung by Mr Braham.
[c.1835?] £85
89. DAVIDSON, George Henry.
Davidson’s Modern
Song-book, or Singer’s pocket companion: consisting
of standard, popular, and copyright songs, selected
with the especial view of being used in domestic circles
and private parties. 32mo. Davidson. Front., added
engr. title, final ad. leaf. Orig. pink cloth. a.e.g. v.g.
¶Engr. title is ‘Popular and standard songs’. BL, TCD
& Oxford copies on Copac variously dated 1847-1860
but, according to P.A.H. Brown, Davidson was at
Water Street 1844-47.
[c.1845] 88
£45
90. DAVISON, Peter. Songs of the British Music Hall;
compiled and edited with a critical history of the songs
and their times by Peter Davison. New York: Oak
Publications. Illus., music. Orig. col. printed wraps;
sl. creased & marked.
¶Davison’s signed presentation copy to Leslie Shepard
with an ALS and carbon copy of Shepard’s reply.
1971 £20
91. DAY, Henry J. Day’s Universal Budget of Songs,
comic and sentimental. Edited by a A.O.F. No.1.
32mo. Henry J. Day. Stabbed as issued; sl. marked
& dusted. 32pp.
¶Not on Copac; Day also seems unrecorded.
[c.1855] £35
DIBDIN, Charles, the Elder
See also items 5, 45, 192, 230, 252 & 331.
92. Dibdins Songs, &c. Folio. 77 songs on 16 leaves.
¶An early unbound collection of songs written and
sung by Charles Dibdin mostly apparently cut from
broadsides and periodicals, and laid down on later
thin paper. Some songs name leading actors as
singers, and some are not by Dibdin. Three cuttings
are about ballad singing and one is an advertisement.
[c.1777-1810?] £45
93. A Collection of Songs, selected from the works of Mr.
Dibdin. New edn. 2 vols. 12mo. Printed for R. Lea;
John Richardson; & J. Walker & Co.; by S. Hamilton,
Weybridge. Contemp. half black calf; a little rubbed.
¶BL, Guildhall & Leeds only on Copac. Songs from
Dibdin’s operas and plays, etc.
1814 94
£50
94. (The Broken Gold.) Songs, Duets, &c. in The Broken
Gold, a ballad opera, in two acts, performed at the
Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Written and composed by
Mr. Dibdin. Printed by T. Woodfall, for the Author.
Added engraved titlepage, with vignette, dated 1806.
Disbound. (2),24pp.
¶BL only on Copac.
[1806] £45
DIBDIN, Charles, the Elder continued
95. Sea Songs and Ballads. By Dibdin and others. 16mo.
Bell & Daldy; & Sampson Low. Half title, 2pp ads.
Contemp. quarter brown morocco; a little rubbed.
Blind monogram stamp on e.p.
¶An attractively printed collection.
1863 £35
WITH MUSIC
96. The Sea Songs of Charles Dibdin: with a memoir of
his life and writings by William Kitchiner. Royal 8vo.
Printed for G. & W.B. Whittaker; & Clementi & Co.
Letterpress text, engr. music of 99 songs. Imperceptibly
rebacked in half red morocco; sl. staining to following
e.p. Booklabel of Barwick Baker, Hardwicke Court. A
handsome edition.
1823 £320
SIGNED BY THOMAS DIBDIN:
CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS
97. Songs, Naval and National, by the late Charles Dibdin;
with a memoir and addenda. Collected and arranged
by Thomas Dibdin. With characteristic sketches by
George Cruikshank. John Murray. Front. & plates.
Orig. blue-green cloth; very sl. damp marked. v.g.
¶Cohn 231. An official Admiralty edition with broad
arrow blocked on boards. This copy has signed
presentation inscription at head of title: ‘To . . West Esqe
with respectful acknowledgements from Thos. Dibdin.’
1841 96
£150
98. Songs, Naval and National, by the late Charles Dibdin;
with a memoir and addenda. ... John Murray. Front.
& plates. Orig. blue-green cloth; repairs to hinges.
¶Cohn 231. An official Admiralty edition with broad
arrow blocked on boards.
1841 __________
£65
DIBDIN, Thomas John
HERO OF YUCATAN
99. Aggression; or, The heroine of Yucatan: a new grand
spectacle, interspersed with songs, &c. to be performed
for the first time, this evening, at the Theatre Royal,
Covent-Garden. Printed by E. Macleish. Disbound. 15pp.
¶Not on Copac. A second title on p.3 is ‘A program of
the scenery, machinery, action, ...’ produced under the
direction of Charles Farley.
1805 £50
100. (Il Bondocani.) Songs, Chorusses, &c. in Il Bondocani,
a musical drama, in three acts. As performed at the
Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. The music composed
by Messrs. Attwood and Moorehead. Printed and
published by J. Barker. Disbound. 15pp.
¶Not in ESTC but almost certainly published in 1800
although Nicoll suggests 1801 and both copies on
Copac at BL & TCD are dated [1801]. ‘Il Bondocani’
was performed in November 1800 and songbooks
would have been available at the theatre. The title
verso also advertises as just published Mrs Frances
Plowden’s ‘Virginia’ which has 1800 imprint.
97
[1800] £60
DIBDIN, Thomas John continued
101. (Brazen Mask.) Sketch of the fable, arrangement of the
scenery, with the songs and chorusses, in the grand
ballet, called Brazen Mask: or, Alberto and Rosabella. As
performed at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden. Invented
by Mr. Fawcett. The poetry by Mr. T. Dibdin. Printed and
published by Barker & Son. Half title. Disbound. 23,(1)pp.
¶Oxford & Cambridge only on Copac. Sometimes
catalogued as by John Fawcett the choreographer.
1802 £45
102. (The Cabinet.) Songs, Duets, Trios, Chorusses, &c. in the
new comic opera, called The Cabinet, as performed at the
Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden. The music entirely new, and
composed by Messrs. Reeve, Moorehead, Davy, Corri, and
Braham. The overture by Mr. Reeve. Printed and published
by Barker & Son. Disbound. 23, (1)pp.
¶This edition BL only on Copac.
1802 £45
103. (The English Fleet in 1342.) Songs, Duets, Chorusses, &c.
in a new historical comic opera, in three acts, called The
English Fleet in 1342. As performed at the Theatre-Royal
Covent-Garden. The overture and music entirely new, and
composed by Mr. Braham. ... Printed and published by
Barker & Son. Disbound. 27, (1)pp.
¶BL & Oxford only on Copac.
103
1803 £50
104. (Family Quarrels.) Songs, Duets, Chorusses, &c. in the new
comic opera, called, Family Quarrels. As performed at the
Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. The music entirely new, and
composed by Messrs. Reeve, Moorehead, Davy, and Braham.
The overture by Mr. Reeve. Printed and published by Barker
& Son. Disbound. 27, (1)pp.
¶Not on Copac where only the 1803 edition is
recorded in BL.
1802 £45
105. (Harlequin and Mother Goose.) Songs, Choruses, &c. in
the new pantomime called Harlequin and Mother Goose, or,
The golden egg, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, CoventGarden. The overture and music composed by Mr. Ware.
The pantomime invented by Mr. T. Dibdin, and produced
under the direction of Mr. Farley. The scenery by Messrs.
Phillips, Whitmore, Hollogan, Grieve, Hodgings, &c. Printed
& published by Barker & Son. Final blank leaf. Disbound.
21, (1)p.
¶First published in 1806. BL & Oxford only on Copac.
1807 £60
106. (Harlequin’s Almanack.) The Introduction, Songs, Glees, Trios,
Chorusses, &c. in the new pantomime, called Harlequin’s
Almanack; or, The four seasons. Performed at the TheatreRoyal Covent-Garden. The music composed by Messrs.
Reeve and W. Ware. The overture by Mr. Reeve. Printed and
published by Barker & Son. Disbound. 19,(1)pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac.
1801 107
£60
PANTOMIME
107. (Harlequin’s Tour.) Songs, Chorusses, &c. in the new
pantomime of Harlequin’s Tour; or, The dominion of
fancy. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, CoventGarden. With entire new music, scenery, machinery,
DIBDIN, Thomas John continued
dresses, &c. Printed and published by J. Barker.
Disbound. 15pp.
¶ESTC 67191? This issue bears the date 1800,
whereas the ESTC entry (2/2 locations) suggests no
date is present.
1800 £40
108. The Last Lays of the Last of the Three Dibdins:
containing fifty new songs, poems, &c. and one
hundred and fifty selections from his published and
unpublished productions. FIRST EDITION. Harding
& King. Occasional spotting. Uncut in orig. drab
boards, early reback with green cloth spine retaining
orig. paper label, sl. chipped. v.g.
¶Dedicated to Bulwer Lytton.
1833 £60
109. (Thirty Thousand.) Songs, Duets, Chorusses, &c. in
Thirty Thousand: or, Who’s the richest? A new comic
opera, in three acts, as performed at the TheatreRoyal Covent-Garden. The musick entirely new,
and composed by Messrs. Reeve, Braham and Davy.
The overture by Mr. Reeve. New edn. Printed and
published by Barker & Son. Disbound. 23, (1)pp.
¶BL only on Copac.
109
1803 £40
110. (Up to Town.) Songs, Duetts, &c. in Up to Town, a
new comic opera, in three acts, as performed at the
Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Printed & published
by J. Barker. Disbound. 23, (1)p.
¶BL & Oxford only on Copac.
[1811] £40
111. (Valentine and Orson.) Songs, Chorusses, Prospectus
of the Action, &c. in the serio-comick romantick melodrama, called Valentine and Orson, in two acts, written
by T. Dibdin, and produced under the sole direction of
Mr. Farley. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent
Garden. Printed and published by Barker & Son.
Disbound. 19, (1)p.
¶Not on Copac. Music by Joseph Jouve. Cuts marked
by crosses over text, overlay slip removed from p.11.
[1804] £60
112. (The White Plume.) Songs, Duets, Chorusses, &c.
in The White Plume: or, The Border chieftains; a
musical-romantick drama, in three acts, as performed
at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden. The musick
composed by Mr. Reeve. Printed and published by
Barker & Son. Disbound. 23, (1)pp.
1806 £35
113
113. (Who’s To Have Her?) Songs, Duets, Chorusses, &c.
in the new operatic farce called Who’s to have her?
As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. The
music composed by Messrs. Reeve and Whitaker. The
overture by Mr. Reeve. Printed and published by J.
Barker. Sm. hole in title not affecting text. Disbound.
19, (1)pp.
¶Not on Copac.
1813 __________
£50
114. DIGNUM, Charles. Vocal Music ... Consisting of songs
duetts & glees, the melodies composed and adapted
by Charles Dignum of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Folio. Printed & sold for the Author by Preston. Engr.
throughout. Disbound.
¶Dignum, c.1765-1827, was a popular tenor, actor
and a pupil of Thomas Linley. The volume was priced
at 15s. to subscribers and 21s. to others. This issue
is numbered in ink CDN975 and does not contain the
portraits found in some issues. The pagination is [4],
102pp. Among poems set is Garrick’s epitaph for
Quin. (See also item 192.)
[1803] £40
115. DIPROSE, John. Diprose’s Royal Song Book. New
edn. 32mo. G. Riley & T. Riley. Engr. front. & added
title with Diprose imprint; text dust-marked in places.
Orig. red cloth; darkened, inner hinges cracking.
¶Copies of the 1844 edition are at the BL & Oxford; no
copies of this edition are recorded on Copac. G. Riley
of Stanford Street is not recorded by P.A.H. Brown.
The running head is ‘Popular songs’.
1863 £35
PERCY SOCIETY
116. DIXON, James Henry.
Ancient Poems, Ballads,
and Songs of the Peasantry of England, taken down
from oral recitation, and transcribed from private
manuscripts, rare broadsides, and scarce publications.
Collected, and ed. by James Henry Dixon. Printed
for the Percy Society by T. Richards. The odd spot.
Handsome contemp. calf, elaborate gilt & blind
borders, gilt dentelles & edges, crimson label. A fine,
attractive copy, possibly a presentation binding.
¶Apparently signed in pencil on the Dedication leaf.
116
1846 £20
FISHING SONGS
117. (DOUBLEDAY, Thomas) The Coquet-Dale Fishing
Songs. Now first collected and edited by a Northcountry angler. Edinburgh: William Blackwood &
Sons. Half title, music; sl. browning at edges. Orig.
green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants; spine faded,
sl. marked.
1852 £40
118. DOWNING, Jack.
Jack Downing’s Song Book.
Containing a selection of upwards of two hundred of
the most popular songs, many of which are new. 4th
edn. 32mo. Providence: B. Cranston & Co. Front.
creased & torn, pages marked & spotted. Contemp.
sheep; worn with early cloth repair. Sm. bookplate of
C. Smith. A poor copy.
¶Jack Downing was a humorous character invented
by Seba Smith in 1834.
1839 £45
119. DRURY LANE. Drury Lane. Songster. Pitts, printer.
Illus. Double sheet length broadside songster in three
columns; sl. creased with old reinforcement to lower edge.
¶The first song is ‘Buy a Mop’, a parody sung by
Mr Harley (of ‘Buy a Broom’, by John Blewitt).
The right hand margin bears traces at tail of a
neighbouring broadside suggesting two were
printed side by side.
119
[c.1835?] £125
120. DRURY LANE. The Drury Lane Concert, a choice
collection of songs, now singing at all the public places
of amusement. 32mo. Printed by J. Pitts. Illus.
Stabbed as issued & partly unopened in orig. yellow
printed wraps; split along spine, sl. dusted. 16pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac. Shepard p.104. In the same
format as ‘ The Mill’ and ‘The Vocalist’ (see items
201 & 335).
[c.1830?] £40
121.DUBLIN. The Dublin Comic Songster; containing
a choice collection of Irish, English, and Scottish
comic songs. 16mo. Dublin: James Duffy. Added
engr. title.
Orig. dark blue cloth;
sl. faded.
Conspicuous ink signatures of George Sloggett,
Cardiff, otherwise v.g.
1845 £50
120
122. DUBLIN. The Dublin Comic Songster; containing a
choice collection of Irish, English, and Scottish comic
songs. 16mo. Dublin: James Duffy. Added engr. title.
Orig. dark brown cloth; spine sl. faded. v.g.
¶Stereotyped.
1853 DUNCOMBE, John.
See item 51129.
£40
Duncombe’s London Songster.
123. DU-VAL, Charles. Charles Du-Val’s Songs in his
popular entertainment and impersonations, entitled
- “Odds and Ends”. (Belfast: Wm. Brown, printer.)
Illus., 4pp. ads. Stabbed, some pages torn along
spine. With remains of front wrap, dusted. 24, (4)pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac. Wrapper title: Book of songs
by Charles Du-Val in his monologue entertainment at
St. James’s Great Hall ... Piccadilly. Title verso quotes
an article on Du-Val from the Irish Times July 1876,
and the final pages advertise the 2nd edn of his book
‘With a show through Southern Africa’.
[1885] £25
ELOCUTIONIST. The Elocutionist. See item 208.
ENGLISH. The English Minstrel. See item 208.
CROSBY’S ENGLISH MUSICAL REPOSITORY
124. ENGLISH. The English Musical Repository: a
choice selection of esteemed English songs, adapted
for the voice, violin, and German flute. Edinburgh:
Oliver & Boyd. Front. with name erased in ink on
recto, added engr. title, both damp marked, printed
music, engr. tailpieces (one possibly after Bewick);
corner torn from margin of pp.9-10 not touching
text. Contemp. half pink calf; spine sl. faded, label.
Attractive copy.
¶Words with music;
John Fowles’ bookplate.
The engraved title is headed ‘Crosby’s English
Musical Repository’. It was originally published by
Benjamin Crosby.
124
1811 £125
125. EVERGREEN. The Evergreen. Birt, printer. Quarter
sheet broadside in three columns; sl spotted.
¶5 songs. Jeanette’s farewell to Jeannet, etc.
[c.1835?] £30
126. FANCY. Fancy’s Medley, forming part of Evans’s
cheap and uniform Vocal Repository, embracing all
the popular English, Irish, and Scotch Songs, singing
at various places of public amusement. Collection V.
Printed and sold by T. Evans. Vignette. A single sheet
of greyish paper, folded as issued and opened apart
from small stub. 8pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac. 22 songs: 1. Tom Steady.
[c.1810?] £85
127. FAVORITE. Favorite Songs arranged in a suitable
compass for the voice. Vol.1. (No.1-7.) Sm. obl. B.
Williams. Engr. music; title dusted. Col. rinted
beige wraps, blue cloth spine; dulled & sl. rubbed
at corners.
¶Not recorded on Copac. Wrapper title: 60 Favorite
songs for the voice.
[c.1845?] £65
BLUE BOOK
128. FELDMAN, Bertram. Feldman’s 27th Blue Book,
containing the words of 100 song hits ... B. Feldman
& Co. Sl. browning, a few ink marks. Stabbed in orig.
blue printed wraps; sm. tear at head of spine. 48pp.
¶The 5th Blue Book was issued in 1923. The 16th,
1934; Oxford has a run of 15th-28th, 1935-54.
128
[1951?] £15
129. FLANAGANS (Restaurant). Song sheet printed
on paper table napkin. Twice folded, crease at one
corner; sl. water mark.
¶4 music hall songs, printed in black, red and green.
[1970] £10
130. FORD, Robert.
Ballads of Bairnhood; selected
and edited with notes by Robert Ford. (Reprinted.)
Paisley: Alexander Gardner. Half title, front. & plates,
colophon leaf. orig. scarlet cloth; spine faded with sm.
split at head of leading hinge.
1913 £20
131. FORGET ME NOT. The Forget Me Not Songster.
Containing a choice collection of old ballad songs,
as sung by our grandmothers. 32mo. New-York:
Cornish, Lamport & Co. Front. of Kelly the pirate,
illus.; a few marks. Orig. sheep; rubbed, contemp.
stickers on verso of front.
¶Includes the ‘Jolly York Firemen’ (clearly New York)
& ‘Lord Bakeman’ (Bateman).
[c.1850] £45
HENRY HENDERSON ‘BARD O’ REAY’
132.FOSTER, Alfred Edye Manning. Christmas Carols
of England; compiled by A.E. Manning Foster.
Cope & Fenwick. Orig. green paper wraps; marked.
88, iv pp.
131
¶Heavily grangerised with cuttings by Henry
Henderson in 1920. With printed and typewritten
single sheet poems by Henderson ‘Bard o’ Reay’
and ‘The Poet of the North’, 1930s & 40s including
‘Rhyme of the Marie Celeste’, ‘Home rule for Scotland’
also one similar poem by Hamish Henderson, and
correspondence about Henderson’s books between
John Humphries(?), Thirso and Leslie Shepard.
[1916] £35
133. FOSTER, Stephen Collins. Songs of Stephen Foster;
prepared especially for the Armed Forces by the
staff of the Foster Hall Collection of the University of
Pittsburgh. (Reprinted.) Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh. Illus. Orig. blue printed wraps. 24pp.
¶Stamped: Fort Dix New Jersey Post Library. First
printed in 1942. Foster who wrote over 200 songs is
best know for ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ and ‘The Old
Folks at Home’. For other soldiers’ songs, see items
144, 303, 317 & 334.
1949 £15
FOUNTAIN. The Fountain of Mirth. See item 209.
134. FULLER, Cynthia. A Set of Six Folksongs and Ballads,
decorated by Cynthia Fuller. J. & E. Bumpus. (Printed
by Lydall & Son.) 6 double page ballads on folded
sheet with col. title & music. In blue board portfolio
with tape ties; sl. faded at edges.
¶One of 500 sets of ballads collected and sung by the
Fuller Sisters, attractively illustrated.
134
1927 £120
135. GIANT. The Giant Song Book. (Kelly’s edition.) Kelly,
News Agent, Gray’s Inn, Holborn. Single sheet, folded
& unopened. Browned, creased & sl. torn at edges.
Disbound. (16pp.)
¶Not recorded on Copac. 69 songs, toasts &
sentiments in three columns, including ‘Come into
the garden Maud’. Part of Kelly’s address has failed
to print. The back page contains advertisements for
the publications of George Purkess, including penny
dreadfuls.
[c.1857] £40
136. GLASGOW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
The Euing
Collection of English Broadside Ballads in the Library
of the University of Glasgow; with an introduction by
John Holloway. 4to. Glasgow: University of Glasgow
Publications. Half title, illus. Orig. dark blue cloth.
v.g. in sl. torn d.w.
¶No. 20 of 500 copies. Facsimile illustrations, the text
in modern type, of the collection of black letter ballads
made by James Orchard Halliwell.
1971 £120
137. GOLDFINCH.
The Goldfinch, a choice collection
of songs, now singing at all the public places of
amusement. 32mo. Printed by J. Pitts. Illus. Stabbed
as issued in orig. yellow printed wraps, unopened; sl.
dusted. 16pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac; titled ‘The Goldinch’ on
wrapper. In the same format as ‘ The Drury Lane
Concert’, ‘The Mill’ and ‘The Vocalist’ (see items 120,
201 & 335).
135
[c.1830?] £45
138. GRAHAM, John.
Dialect Songs of the North.
(Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland & Cumberland.)
Collected and ed. by John Graham, with some pianoforte accompaniments by Percy E. Fletcher. 2nd edn.
4to. J. Curwen & Sons. (Curwen’s edition, 5712.)
Front., music. Stapled in orig. grey printed wraps
coded 224/3/11. v.g.
¶15 songs with piano accompaniment.
[1911] £25
139. GRASSHOPPER. The Grasshopper, containing new
songs, sung at various places of public amusement.
Pitts, printer. Quarter sheet songster in three columns
with sm. woodcut on greyish paper; sl. browned at edges.
¶Shepard’s ‘John Pitts’, p.106.
lines, containing 7 songs.
With vertical chain
[c.1810?] 139
£45
GREAT EXHIBITION
140. GREAT EXHIBITION. The Great Exhibition Songster
1851. No. 3. Printed & published by W.S. Johnson.
Illus., music. Partly unopened in orig. buff pict.
wraps; dusted, creased & sl. torn at the edges. (8pp.)
¶Oxford has this Part 3, Reading Part 4. 58 songs,
with music for ‘Wapping Old Stairs’ only. Seven
further songs are printed on the back wrapper.
1851 £50
SOUTHERN & WESTERN SONGSTER
141. GRIGG, John.
Grigg’s Southern and Western
Songster; being a choice collection of the most
fashionable songs, many of which are original. New
edn, greatly enlarged. 24mo. Philadelphia: J. Grigg.
Contemp. sheep; sl. rubbing, dark brown label.
1829 £65
HALL, Sam. See items 206 & 213.
142. HANCHANT, W.L. The Newgate Garland or, Flowers
of Hemp, ... To which is added an Anonymous but
authentic Autobiography of a thief, written during
the ‘seventies ... assembled ... by W.L. Hanchant.
Desmond Harnsworth. Orig. red-brown cloth.
140
¶Ballads, some in thieves cant, published from 44
Great Russell Street. Contributions by Ainsworth,
Reynolds, Bulwer, Egan, Henley, Sims, etc.
1932 £15
LANCASHIRE
143. HARLAND, John. Ballads and Songs of Lancashire,
ancient and modern, collected, compiled, and ed., with
notes by John Harland. 3rd edn. Corrected, revised,
and enlarged by T.T. Wilkinson. John Heywood. Half
title, front. port.; a few spots. Orig. brown cloth,
bevelled boards, blocked in black & gilt. v.g.
¶See also item 483.
1882 £65
SONGS FOR SOLDIERS
144. HILL, Louis B. Songs for Soldiers, being a collection
of old Army songs, compiled for the use of Grand Army
Posts. Sm. 4to. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Louis B. Hill.
Some songs with engr. music, printed on pink paper,
final ad. leaf. Brown cloth spine; marbled paper on
back board sl. torn.
¶First published in 1880.
1885 £45
145. HODGSON & CO. Hodgson’s British Naval Songster.
Printed by & for Hodgson & Co. Engr. front. & title,
dated Septr 6, 1822; stabbed through with no loss,
sl. damp marking. Orig. beige printed wraps. 42pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac.
145
1822 £50
IMPERIAL WARBLER
146. HODGSON & CO. Hodgson’s Imperial Warbler: a
choice collection of comic, naval, and Scotch songs.
Printed by & for Hodgson & Co. Engr. title hand col.,
two column text; final contents pages (106-107) stuck
down and partly torn away but songs complete. Later
orange wraps.
¶Oxford only on Copac. Vol. I printed in lower margin
p.1; lacking front. & page of ‘Toasts & Sentiments’.
[c.1824] £20
147. HODGSON, Orlando. Hodgson’s London Song-Book,
for 1833: a collection of upwards of one hundred
popular favourite and entirely new songs. Orlando
Hodgson. Fold. col. front. dated 1st Sept. 1832; one
fold unopened. Stabbed as issued in orig. brick red
printed wraps; sl. torn without loss. 24pp. v.g.
¶Oxford only on Copac. 111 songs including six on the
back wrapper; the frontispiece illustrates six titles.
1833 £110
DICKENS
148. HODGSON, Orlando. Hodgson’s National Songster; or
Encyclopædia of harmony. ... Orlando Hodgson. Front.,
text in two columns; some gatherings browned. Half
sheep using old cloth boards - a very rough binding.
147
¶Apparently originally published in parts. Copac
records two copies including BL [1832]. The
frontispiece is a bad portrait of Dickens headed ‘Forget
me not’; the text title ‘Hodgson’s National Collection of
Songs’. With an inscription of a gift, 1846.
[c.1845?] £35
149. HOMESTEAD. The Homestead Library of Poetry and
Song. Vol. I. New York: Lyon Manufacturing Co. Two
column text sl browned, music. Title from orig printed
wraps; one old fold, back wrap torn without loss. (32)pp.
¶The versos of each page advertise the Lyon
Manufacturing Co’s products including Mexican
Mustang liniment for man and beast and the new sea
food: Sea Moss Farine. There is also a Sankey hymn
and a 2pp Oraculum.
1876 £30
HOOD, Robin
See also items 29, 489 & 523-525.
LYTELL GESTE
150. The Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, with other ancient &
modern ballads and songs relating to this celebrated
yeoman ... Edited by John Mathew Gutch and adorned
with cuts by F.W. Fairholt. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols.
Longmans. Half titles, fronts sl. foxed, illus., music.
Orig. green cloth; sl. marked, spines a little rubbed &
faded, signs of booklabel removal.
¶Including new material not used by Joseph Ritson.
150
1847 £200
151. Robin Hood. A collection of poems, songs, and ballads.
With notes by John Mathew Gutch and Life of John
Hicklin. William Tegg. Half title, front. & plates, glossary.
Orig. brown cloth, blocked & lettered in gilt: BALLADS
SONGS & POEMS OF ROBIN HOOD’. a.e.g. v.g.
¶Signature of Helen Tomblin.
1867 £58
HOOD, Robin continued
152. Robin Hood. ... William Tegg. Half title, front. &
plates, glossary. Orig. brown cloth, blocked & lettered
in black, spine lettered in gilt: ‘ROBIN HOODS
BALLADS’. v.g.
¶Signature of Joseph Mazzini Wheeler.
1867 £45
153. RITSON, Joseph. Robin Hood: a collection of all
the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant,
relative to that celebrated English outlaw: ... n.p.
(London.) Music; sl. browning to inner margins.
Marbled boards simply rebacked. Bookseller’s ticket
of Charles Hutt, London.
¶Edited by Joseph Ritson. Probably the edition
published as part of The Universal Library.
[1853?] __________
£30
154. HUMOUROUS. The Humourous and Sentimental
Songster, for 1816. Combining, with other popular
songs, those sung ... in Frederick the Great ... To
which are added, a selection of the best anecdotes, ...
Printed by & for J. Mills; and may be had of Simpkin &
Marshall, &c. Front.; last gathering misbound, final
page pasted to wrapper, some discoloration. Orig.
yellow printed wraps; heavily dusted.
¶Not recorded on Copac. Spine title is ‘The Humourous
Songster’ and text title ‘The Sentimental Songster’.
‘Frederick the Great’ is by S.J. Arnold (see also item 10).
1816 £75
155. IRISH. The Irish Comic Songster. 24mo. Boston:
Patrick Donahoe. Orig. green cloth; rubbed & dulled,
lacking e.p.s.
¶Not recorded on Copac. Donahoe published c.18431872 in Boston, Mass.
[c.1850?] 154
£25
156. JOHNSON, William Spencer. Johnson’s New London
Song Book: containing upwards of two thousand
songs, toasts, and sentiments, with a copious index.
New edn. Printed and published by W.S. Johnson.
Lacking p.i-iv of alphabetical contents’ list, one corner
torn touching border, a few internal marks. Contemp.
half roan; rubbed with splits at head of spine & hinges.
¶Not in BL. 3 copies only on Copac. An interesting 384
page double column collection, often listing music sellers.
[c.1860] £20
157. JOLLY. The Jolly Blade’s Companion, being a choice
collection of the most popular songs now singing at
all the places of public amusement Printed and sold
by J. Evans & Son. Vignette. Single sheet, folded &
unopened. v.g. 8pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac. 18 Songs: 1. The Orphan’s friend.
[c.1815] £65
158. JOVIAL. The Jovial Fellow’s Collection of social, love,
sea, and other songs. Sung at the places of public
amusement, &c. Printed & sold. by J. Davenport.
Vignette. A single sheet, opened. 8pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac. 17 songs: 1. Jack at
Greenwich. Davenport is only recorded in 1801-02.
158
[c.1801] £50
159. KING, Richard John. Selections from the Early
Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland. Edited by
Richard John King. William Pickering. Half title, title
in red & black, 4pp cata. Orig. green cloth; marked &
sunned with split at head of leading hinge, tear from
following f.e.p., paper label rubbed.
¶Publisher’s presentation copy to the Editor of the
Morning Post.
1842 £35
KITTY. Kitty of Coleraine ... See item 208.
KYLE, Morison. Kyle’s Comic Vocalist. See item 210.
COLOUR FRONTISPIECE
160. LABERN, John.
Comic Songs:
a collection of
originals, as sung with applause at the London concerts. Written by John Labern. (9th collection.) 12mo.
Duncombe & Moon. Fold. col. front. of ‘The Itinerants’.
Orig. printed wraps; a little creased & split at spine.
In chemise cloth-covered slip case.
¶Wrapper title: ‘John Labern’s songs’. A scarce
survival: there is one copy of this ‘ninth collection’ at
Oxford but no other parts are recorded on Copac. (See
also item 166.)
[c.1852] 159
£225
161. LABERN, John. Labern’s Comic Minstrel; a collection
of popular comic songs. Edited by John Labern. First
- Second series. 32mo. T.J. Allman. Front. ports,
added engr. titles. 2 parts in 1 vol. in orig. dark green
cloth; sl. marked. v.g.
¶BL & Oxford only on Copac. Oxford has an earlier
edition dated 1861.
1865 £45
162. LANG, Andrew. A Collection of Ballads; ed., with
introduction and notes, by Andrew Lang. (Reprinted.)
Chapman & Hall. Half title. Orig. beige cloth.
¶First published in 1897.
1910 £15
163. LIND, Jenny. Jenny Lind Song-ster, and Ethiopian
Melodist containing one hundred and eighty two of
the most popular songs of the day. 4to. Printed &
published by A. Ryle, & Co. Port. Folded as issued.
Sl. creased with minor tears at edges. (8pp.)
¶Oxford only on Copac. The first page contains a
prose account of Jenny Lind’s career up to her British
debut on 4 May 1847, but it is not clear how many
of the songs are connected with her, as many are as
sung by Miss Romer, with many black minstrel songs.
[1847?] £45
LITTLE. The Little Gem. See items 208 & 216.
LITTLE. The Little Wonder. See item 206.
164. LINDSAY, Lizzie. The Ballad, Lizzie Lindsay, written
from memory by George Mitchell, at Mrs. Dawson
Rowley’s Request, 1891. 2nd edn. 4to. Privately printed.
Brighton: J. Beal & Son. Front. photographic port.,
music. Orig. blue cloth, bevelled boards, with brown
cloth onlay on front boards with music. a.e.g. Nice copy.
163
¶With a presentation inscription from George Mitchell,
the Ground Officer, Edzell Castle, to George Stevenson,
Feb. 1896.
1895 £40
LONDON
165. The London Minstrel: a collection of esteemed English,
Irish and Scotch songs, glees, duets, &c. ... To which
is prefixed, An introduction to singing. Written,
selected and arranged, by a professional gentleman.
(New edn.) 12mo. Printed for Dean & Munday; and
A.K. Newman & Co. Front. & added engr. title, music
‘for the voice, violin & flute’, letterpress music. Orig.
printed boards; rubbed and marked, neatly rebacked.
¶University of London & Oxford only on Copac for this
edition. First published in 1821; the edition note is
only on the boards.
1825 £75
166. The London Singer’s Magazine. No. 6, 32, 38, 51, 58,
91, 95. Printed & published by John Duncombe &
Co. Illus. Individual parts, text in 2 columns; some
creased & dusted or split along spine.
167
¶See Cohn 501, but Cruikshank’s work not here.
Originally published in weekly parts. Nos 32 & 38
are printed by J. Hains from Duncombe’s address.
Originally edited by T.P. Prest. Nos. 91 & 95 name
John Labern as editor. The illustrations depict figures
with large caricature heads. With photographs of
the first pages of nos. 5 & 10, and Leslie Shepard’s
negative of the first page of 10.
[c.1838-39] £80
167. The London Vocalist: an extensive and superior collection
of songs, embracing all the songs of merit, as they are
sung at the London theatres, public and private concerts,
etc. With numerous originals by Messrs. Moncrieff,
Hudson, Beuler, Prest, Mackey, Labern, Carpenter, etc.
Embellished with splendid comic illustrations by Messrs.
Cruikshank and Jones ... T. Duncombe, & Co. Front.
of Miss Hughes as Reiza, text in two columns. Orig.
embossed dark brown cloth; sl. darkened otherwise v.g.
¶A remainder issue of parts 1-15. Two further
collections were issued - see following item. Although
Cruikshank is mentioned, most of the illustrations are
signed by Jones, and the work is not in Cohn.
[c.1829] £120
168. (The London Vocalist.) The Popular Vocalist: a collection
of superior songs by the most eminent composers,
expressly written for this work; and sung at all the
London private concerts. T. Duncombe, & Co. Front.
of Miss Hughes as Reiza, illus. by T. Jones, text in
two columns; running head title cut from pp.13-14.
Contemp. half calf, brown label as ‘London Vocalist’. v.g.
¶A reissue of parts 16-30 of ‘The London Vocalist’ which
is named in the preface, with imprint of J. Duncombe,
19 Little Queen St. A third collection of parts 31-47
was issued, entitled ‘The London Melodist’.
[c.1830] __________
£120
LONDON NOVELTIES COMPANY
None of the following five items are recorded on Copac.
169. Monster Song Budget. London Novelties Co. Single large
folded sheet of newsprint; browned, creased, torn at edges.
¶A large selection of popular songs, list beginning with
‘When the angelus is ringing’ and including ‘Belgium
put the kibosh on the Kaiser’, Oct. 1914.
168
[c.1915?] £45
LONDON NOVELTIES COMPANY continued
170. The Royal Song Budget. London Novelties Co. Illus.
Single large folded sheet of newsprint, unopened;
browned, a few tears at edges & folds.
¶A large selection of popular songs, similar to those
published by Felix McGlennon, with portraits of
crowned King George V & Queen Mary.
[1910?] £45
171. The World’s Greatest Pantomime Songs. London
Novelties Co. Illus. Single large folded sheet of newsprint; browned, creased, torn at edges.
¶A large selection of popular songs, beginning with
‘Do you remember the last waltz?’.
[c.1911?] £45
RAG-TIME
172. The World’s Greatest Rag-Time Songs. London
Novelties Co. Single large folded sheet of newsprint;
browned, creased & torn at edges.
¶A large selection of popular songs, list beginning with
‘Waiting for the Robert E. Lee’. With a date stamp
APR 14 1913.
[1913?] £45
173. The World’s Greatest Winter Annual. London Novelties
Co. Illus. Single large folded sheet of newsprint, unopened; browned, creased, a few tears at edges.
¶A large selection of popular songs, similar to those
published by Felix McGlennon, beginning with ‘Meet
me to-night in dreamland’. With ink note: ‘For the
boys - hope all well in haste’.
[c.1910?] __________
£45
LOVER
174
SCARCE ORIGINAL PARTS
174. The Lover’s Harmony, being an entire new and choice
collection of the most admired songs, sung at all
the public places of amusement. No. 10, 11, 13-52.
Printed & published by (Pitts, printer) Ryle & Co.
Vignettes. Folded as issued; some nos. dusted, one
split at folds, sl. creased at corners.
¶This collection of 8pp parts was originally published
by John Pitts and reissued by Ryle of Monmouth Court,
Seven Dials. Nos. 11, 13-17, 19-20, 22, 24-27, 29, 31-36,
38-40, 42-46, 48-52 have Pitts’ colophon. Nos. 28 & 30
have both imprints. Copies of nos. 15 & 50 with Ryle’s
imprint are also included. The pagination is continuous.
[c.1840-50] £200
175. The Lover’s Harmony, ... Printed & published by
(Pitts, printer) Ryle & Co. A contemporary remainder
collection of odd parts with either Pitts or Ryle
imprints. Orig. blue boards with paper labels based
on the cover of no. 34; sl. chipped, lacking spine strip.
¶Nos. 50 (Ryle); 45 (Pitts); 41 (Ryle); 36, 34, 32 (Pitts;
30 (Ryle); 28, 27, 26, 25, 20, 17, 13, 11, 10 (Pitts).
[c.1840-50] £85
176. The Lover’s Harmony, ... Printed & published by
(Pitts, printer) Ryle & Co. Vignettes. Folded as issued;
some dusted or spotted.
¶Nos. 16, 27, 34, 41 (Ryle), 42, 43, 45.
176
[c.1840-50] £65
LOVER continued
177. The Lover’s Lyre. J. Catnach. 3 woodcuts. Long
broadside; sl creased & torn at edges, old folds.
¶14 songs.
[c.1830?] £55
178. The Lover’s Magazine: being a choice collection of
songs, sung at the Theatres Royal; Sadlers Wells,
Vauxhall; Royal Circus; Astley’s and all the public
places of amusement. Printed & sold by J. Pitts.
Title ornament. single sheet, folded & unopened.
v.g. 8pp.
¶BL & Oxford only on Copac. 18 songs: 1. Bartholomew
Fair. Not listed by Shepard.
[c.1815] 177
£50
179. The Lover’s of Harmony: a choice selection of the most
popular songs. n.p. Long broadside with elaborate
engraving at head; sm. split at lower edge repaired.
¶8 songs in three columns, the middle in larger type.
The first song is ‘Allowed to be drunk on the premises’.
The higher quality engraved frame at head has had a
cruder figure inserted in its arch. The text refers to
‘our Queen’.
[c.1840?] __________
£85
180. LOVER, Samuel. The Lyrics of Ireland, edited and
annotated by Samuel Lover. Houlston & Wright.
Front. port., illus., music. Orig. red cloth designed by
J. L(eighton), blocked in blind & gilt; sl. marked, inner
hinges sl. weakening.
¶First edition, with presentation inscription: E.E.
Bickersteth. From his Mother to M.R. White. The
Palace, Ripon, October, 1872.
In Memoriam!
Bickersteth was presumably a son of Robert, the
Bishop of Ripon.
1858 178
£120
A SCARCE COLLECTION
181. LYRE. The Lyre. (The Halfpenny Lyre.) No. 3(?), 4,
5, 7, 8(?), 11 12, 13, 15, 16, 25, 26, 27, 30, 33, 36,
39, 40, 44, 46, 47, 53, 54, 56, 57, 63, 66, 67, 70, 77,
90, 104, 105, 111(?). Leith: R.W. Hume, 57, Shore.
36 items. Handsome later half red calf, gilt bands,
black label.
¶A collection of mostly single sheet lithographed
songs, each with illus. & music, bound in seemingly
random order, some sl. cropped affecting frames &
numbers. A few authors and composers are named.
Nos. 56 & 57 are conjoint at one penny. Also included
are two 4pp songs not as obviously published by
Hume: ‘The Highwayman. A ballad’, Leith: at
Lapicide Lane where the author’s identify is revealed
in a portrait; ‘Jim Crow’s Songs’ as sung by Mr Lloyd
in Edinburgh with imprint “Published by Lew: Diero,
5 Longacre London”; and one other single sheet,
published by Hume ‘Hurrah for the Postman the
great Roland Hill’ (The penny post bag. No. 1. Price
one halfpenny.) No. 47 is loosely inserted. Some nos
include instructions for performance. A scarce and
interesting collection. BL (the only holder of a broken
run recorded on Copac) states that ‘The Lyre’ is in
part a republication of ‘The Halfpenny Lyre’ and that
some items are not numbered.
181
[c.1840] £650
182. MACCARTHY, Denis Florence. The Book of Irish
Ballads. A new edn, revised and corrected, with
additional poems and a preface. Dublin: James Duffy
& Sons. Sl. spotting caused by e.ps. Orig. dark green
cloth; sl. rubbing.
¶This edition NLS only on Copac. First published in
1846 & revised with new preface in 1869.
1881 £40
MCGLENNON, Felix, publisher
Copac records 58 McGlennon titles, but does not include
any of the following five items.
‘RECORD SONG BOOK’
183. A Collection of Cheap Song Publications of this prolific
publisher in London in the first half of the 20th
century. 17 items, one 1951 duplicate.
182
¶Printed on newsprint these fragile collections are
not often preserved. A letter from Cicely McGlennon
to Leslie Shepard in 1962 says that few other than
file copies survive. Also including 2 small format
collections in 32pp lacking wrappers.
[c.1940-55?] £75
184. 150 Old English Songs. Felix McGlennon. Single
large folded sheet of newsprint, unopened; browned,
splits at folds & edges.
¶A large selection of popular and traditional songs, with
decorated title including union flag and red ensign, but
probably pre-war. With ink note ‘Give this to Fred’.
[c.1912?] £40
185. McGlennon’s 1913 Song Annual. Felix McGlennon.
Single large folded sheet of newsprint, unopened;
browned, a few sm. splits at folds and edges.
¶A large selection of popular songs, in a surprisingly
good state of preservation.
1913 £40
186. McGlennon’s Winter Annual. Felix McGlennon. Single
large folded sheet of newsprint, unopened; browned,
tear at one fold, sl. crease.
¶A large selection of popular songs, beginning with
‘Alexander’s Rag-time Band’.
[c.1911?] £40
187. Songs that are Asked For. McGlennon’s edn. Felix
McGlennon. Single large folded sheet of newsprint,
unopened; browned, creased, tears at folds and edges,
corner torn with loss of a few words.
¶A large selection of popular songs, beginning
alphabetically with ‘As the church bells chime’. With
a slightly imperfect copy of the New edition of ‘Popular
songs of love’, c.1915.
[c.1912?] __________
188
£20
JACOBITE SONGS
188. MACQUOID, Gilbert S.
Jacobite Songs and
Ballads (selected). With notes, genealogical table of
the Stuarts, introduction, glossary, &c. Edited by
Gilbert S. Macquoid. Walter Scott. Front., final
ad. leaf. Orig. scarlet pict. cloth; spine dulled & sl.
rubbed. a.e.g.
1888 £30
LEADENHALL PRESS
189. MAITLAND, J.A. Fuller.
English Carols of the
Fifteenth Century from a ms. roll in the Library of
Trinity College, Cambridge; edited by J.A. Fuller
Maitland with added vocal parts by W.S. Rockstro.
4to. Leadenhall Press, &c. Col. facsim. front., music.
Orig. purple cloth; spine sl. faded, sl. wear at head.
¶Christmas & other carols, including the Agincourt Song.
[1893] £60
WILLIAM & MARGARET
190. MALLET, David. Ballads and Songs. New edn, with
notes and illustrations and a Memoir of the Author,
by Frederick Dinsdale. Bell & Daldy. Half title,
steel engraved plates (one folding), facsims, music, 2
addenda leaves. Orig. green cloth; sl. darkened, damp
marking on e.ps.
¶Dealing in some detail with the ballads ‘William and
Margaret’ and ‘Edwin and Emma’ but also printing
Mallet’s songs with music. Mallet or Malloch is
perhaps better known for his theatrical works and for
Rule Britannia from his masque ‘Alfred’.
189
1857 £65
191. MAMMOTH. Mammoth Music Hall Song Book.
(Darlington: St Clair Chattell.) Three column text on
newsprint paper. Orig. orange printed wraps including
text; minor tears & chips at edges. 8pp. v.g.
¶Not recorded on Copac. Text title: The music hall
songster. Text and wrappers advertise racy literature
and ‘medical’ books.
[c.1900?] £30
SEA SONGS
192. MARINER.
The Mariner’s Concert, being a new
collection of the most favorite Sea Songs, written and
sung by Dibden, Dignum, Fawcett, &c. and sung at
the places of public amusement in the year 1797.
Printed by J. Evans. Vignette. Single sheet, folded &
unopened. v.g.
¶BL dates as 1815; ESTC T84939 dates as 1797?
18 songs: 1. A salt eel for Mynheer. Charles Dibden,
Charles Dignum and John Fawcett, also actors.
[c.1812] £65
193. MARKS, E. & SON. Champion Winter Annual. E.
Marks & Son. Illus, ports. Single large folded sheet
of newsprint, printed in blue; browned, creased, a few
splits at edges & folds.
¶Not recorded on Copac. A large selection of popular
songs, beginning with ‘Tommy can always find a
sweetheart’. With portraits of Marie Kendall, Dave
Carter and Marie Blyth.
[c.1910?] 194
£45
SCOTS POET:
WITH PRINTED ‘ENVELOPE’ 1845
194. MATHUS, Thomas Long 4pp 4to ALS to D.B. Buchan,
merchant of Renfrew St, Glasgow from St Monance,
Fife, 1845. 4pp. 16th January 1845. In a folder, with
other material.
¶Mathus, or Mathews, of Fife, songwriter & etcher.
Mathus’ letter mentions the difficulty of writing
poetry, ‘the language of passion’, but includes, as
part of the letter, a 7 stanza poem ... ‘I have enclosed
a song for your perusal ...’. The separate fold-over
wrapper is included, with penny red stamp and date
stamps for 21 January 1845. On the verso is printed
an advertisement for Scotland’s Merchant Seaman’s
Almanac for 1845. This is a very early printed
envelope. WITH: A separate 2pp manuscript entitled
‘Song’, signed, and a 2pp. manuscript political poem
in rhyming couplets of an earlier date; also a small
single sheet etched song by Mathus: ‘A drap o’ the
best resolution’, with music, and a small etching of
‘Rowlie Soutie’(?).
1845 £380
UNCLE TOM
195. MAY. The May Flower. n.p. Two column text. Folded
as issued in orig. green printed wraps with no trace of
stabbing. 8pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac. Songs, roughly printed,
and including ‘Uncle Tom, the slave martyr’. Harriet
Beecher Stowe published a work of this title.
[c.1853] £35
196. MAY DAY. The May Day Garland. Being a choice
collection of poetical flowers, or songs. Suited to
that day and season. 4to. J. Pitts, printer. Vignette.
Folded as issued, unopened; sl. creased or dusted at
edges. 8pp.
¶This second series only recorded on Copac at Oxford
& NLS. Shepard p.105 & 141. Title headed: ‘The
Vocal Repository. 2nd series’, a collection of 18 songs.
[c.1825?] £35
MERRY
197
197. The Merry Piper; being a collection of humerous,
sentimental, and other songs, now singing at the
different places of public and private amusement.
Printed by J. Evans & Son. Vignette. A single sheet
folded & unopened; browned at edges. 8pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac. 14 songs: 1. The Woodpecker.
[c.1815] £45
198. Merry Songs, calculated to please every body and
offend nobody, which are now singing at the Theatres
Vauxhall, and by the choice spirits at the different
convivial meetings. Printed & sold by T. Evans.
Vignette. Single sheet, opened & stitched at fold, mark
on last leaf. 8pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac. 19 songs: 1. The Anchorsmiths.
[c.1805?] £60
RE-SET
199. Merry Songs, calculated to please every body and
offend nobody, ... Printed by J. Evans. Vignette.
Single sheet, folded & unopened. v.g. 8pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac. 19 songs: 1. The Anchorsmiths.
The vignette and contents are exactly the same as for
T. Evans’ edition, but the text is reset.
[c.1812?] £50
200. The Merry Swiss Boy. ... n.p. 1 woodcut at head, sm
tailpiece; poor impression at left. Quarter sheet broadside
in three columns; sl. browned, one edge sl. chipped.
¶5 songs without general title.
200
[c.1840?] __________
£25
201. MILL. The Mill, a choice collection of songs now singing
at all the public places of amusement. 32mo. Printed
by J. Pitts. Illus. Stabbed as issued and unopened in
orig. yellow printed wraps; sl. dusted. 16pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac. In the same format as
‘The Drury Lane Concert’, ‘The Goldfinch’ and ‘The
Vocalist’. (See items 120, 137 & 335.
[c.1830?] £45
202. MINSTREL. The Minstrel: containing a selection of
the most approved and favourite songs. Printed and
published by A. Park. Two column text. Stabbed in orig.
green printed wraps; creased & sl. dusted with minor
marginal tears, ink list on verso of front wrap. (8)pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac. From the printer best known
for his toy theatre publications, with running head:
Park’s Selection of songs.
[c.1840] 201
£40
203. MITCHISON, William. Mitchison’s Vocalist’s Companion: a choice collection of the newest and most
popular copyright songs. With music. Arranged, by
permission, from authorized editions. 16mo. Glasgow:
John Cameron. (Bell & Bain, printers.) Music; sl.
spotted, the odd corner torn or creased. Early sheep
spine, marbled wraps.
¶Not recorded on Copac.
[c.1860?] £35
204. MONTHLY. The Monthly Apollo: or, A collection of
new songs and airs; in English and Italian, with a
thorough bass, & every lesson transpos’d for the flute.
Never before printed. For the month of July, 1724.
Vol. I. Engrav’d and printed at Cluer’s Printing-Office,
in Bow-Church Yard, & sold there, & by B.Creake.
Engr. front. & title, engr. music, initial printed ad. leaf
for J. Cluer & B. Creake tipped in. Early purple wraps;
chipped at corners, spine defective. (5), 15pp.
¶The sole copy on Copac is at BL which has two
monthly parts only. This may be Pt I but is possibly a
prospectus. Not recorded in ESTC.
[1724] £120
205. MORE. More than twice 55 community songs. 350th
thousand. Hawkes & Son. Printed music. Stitched in
orig. brown wraps; sm. splits at head & tail of spine.
¶107 songs, British and American.
[1926?] 204
£15
MURRAY, David and Eunice, Collection
David Murray, 1842-1928, was a Glasgow lawyer
and Eunice one of his daughters, a leading Scottish
feminist. David Murray’s wife, Frances, collected
ballads and the Murray broadsides are in Glasgow
University Library.
The following 11 items are uniformly bound in half brown
calf with dark green spine label, except 208 & 211.
FOUR ITEMS IN ONE VOLUME
206. CHANGE. Four songsters in one volume.
a) Change for a Penny. By a Funny Fellow. No. 1-8.
W. Strange. Printed by R. Macdonald. [c.1848]
Illus., titles from wrappers.
b)The Little Wonder & Multum in parvo magazine.
No.1.
S.Y. Collins. (Guthrie, printer.) [c.1850]
Rough port of Mrs Keeley. Orig. wraps, marks in
text. 32pp.
MURRAY, David and Eunice, Collection continued
c)The Ross Songster. First series. No.1-2. Printed
& published by H. May. [1856?] Titles from front
wraps. 64pp.
d)Yankee Smith’s Nigger Melodist.
No. 1-2. W.
Strange. [c.1850] Printed by R. Macdonald. Orig.
wraps. 60pp.
4 items, 32mo; sl. dusting. Half brown calf, dark
green label. Bookplate & signature of David Murray.
t.e.g. v.g.
¶a) Change for a Penny. Unrecorded.
b) Little Wonder. Unrecorded.
c) Ross Songster. Oxford only on Copac.
d) Yankee Smith’s. Unrecorded.
Ross is W.G. Ross the comic singer, creator of Sam
Hall (see also item 213).
[c.1848-56] 206
£300
207. COMIC. The Comic Songster: a collection of Scotch,
English, and Irish comic songs. First series. Pts III, 5,
VI, VIII-XII, XIV-XVI, (XVII?), XVIII. 24mo. Glasgow:
Hamilton. (W. Hamilton. J. Neilson, printer, Paisley.)
Front. port of Mr Warden, comic singer; back wrapper
of part VIII dusted & torn. Half brown calf, dark green
label. Bookplate & signature of David Murray. t.e.g. v.g.
¶Original penny parts in wrappers, with the prelims
which probably comprised part XVII and with the first
part of the 2nd series. Pts III, X, XI, XIV, XVIII are of
the 2nd edn. Later parts of this series are bound into a
composite volume following ‘The Posie’ (see item 212).
1839 208
£150
FOURTEEN ITEMS
208. ELOCUTIONIST. A collection of items.
a) The Elocutionist: a selection of pieces, adapted for
recitation, ... 32mo. Aberdeen: Jas. Strachan,
1840. Orig. wraps; dusted. 64pp.
b) The Scottish Songster: ... 2 parts. 32mo. Glasgow:
James Cameron. [c.1860?] Orig. green wraps. 64
+ 60pp.
c)The Little Gem: ... Glasgow: printed for the
Booksellers. [c.1850] Title from orig. blue wraps.
32pp.
d The Penny Songster ... No. IV, XVII, XIX, XX, XXIV.
32mo. Glasgow: W. Hamilton. Orig. wraps; some
dusting.
e) The Vocal Casquet ... 32mo. Paisley: R. Morrison.
(J. Neilson, printer.) Orig. yellow wraps. 32pp.
(Misbound in series of ‘Penny songster’.)
f) The Reciter’s Own, ... 2 parts (Sentimental &
Comic.) 2nd edn. 32mo. Dunfermline: printed &
sold by J. Miller & Son, 1841. Blue wraps faded.
48 + 48pp.
g) The Posie, Part I & 4. 32mo. Glasgow: printed &
published by James Cameron, 1828, 1830. Fronts
of Braham & Madame Vestris. 52 + 52pp.
h)The Scottish Minstrel; ... sixth series. 12mo.
Glasgow:
printed for the Booksellers, 1850.
Edges creased. 24pp.
i) The English Minstrel: ... No. I. 12mo. Glasgow:
printed for the Booksellers, 1850. 24pp.
j) The Comic Minstrel: ... Glasgow: printed for the
Booksellers. (No.13.) [c.1860] Partly unopened
24pp.
MURRAY, David and Eunice, Collection
ELOCUTIONIST continued
k) Kitty of Coleraine. Black-eyed Susan. ... Glasgow:
printed for the Booksellers. [c.1830] 8pp.
l) The Vocalist: ... Falkirk: printed by A. Johnston.
[c. 1840] 24pp.
m)The Pleasing Art of Money-Catching, ... Falkirk:
printed for the Booksellers, 1840. In prose. 24pp.
n)The Wife of Beith; ... Falkirk: printed for the
Booksellers. [c.1840].
14 items. 12mo size reversed calf. Bookplate of
Eunice G. Murray.
209
¶a) Elocutionist. Unrecorded.
b) Scottish Songster. Oxford only on Copac.
c) Little Gem. V&A Library only on Copac.
d) Penny Songster (c.1845). Unrecorded.
e) Vocal Casquet (c.1840) (see also following item).
NLS & Oxford only.
f) Reciter’s Own (c.1840). Unrecorded.
g) Posie. All 4 parts Oxford, NLS parts 3 & 4 on
Copac.
h) Scottish Minstrel. Series 4 & 6 Oxford, Series 6
NLS on Copac.
i) English Minstrel. Nos 1 & 2 NLS, No. 1 only at
Guildhall on Copac.
j) Comic Minstrel. 5 locations on Copac.
k) Kitty. BL & NLS only on Copac.
l) The Vocalist. Unrecorded.
m)Pleasing Art. Unrecorded.
n) Wife of Beith. Not in BL.
Another copy of ‘The Little Gem’ is bound in
another collection (see item216). Another longer
run of ‘The Penny Songster’ is bound following
‘The Posie’ (see item 212). These parts are bound
in the wrong order; no. XX has the imprint of J.
Neilson in Paisley, and no. XXIV the imprint of
A. Reid, jun., Dundee. For a later edition of ‘The
Posie’, see item 212.
1839 £320
209. FOUNTAIN.
a)The Fountain of Mirth; a choice collection of
comic songs. No. 6, & A choice collection of comic
songs, unnumbered. Paisley: Caldwell & Sons.
[c.1850] pp.25-48?, 59-82, 165-176.
b)The Vocal Casquet: a selection of the most
admired songs, duets, and glees. Paisley: R.
Morrison. (J. Neilson, printer.) [c.1850] 32pp.
c) Choice Collection of Comic Songs. (2 parts) 7182, 165-176. Paisley: Caldwell & Son. Tear from
top corner of front wrap affecting border only.
d)The Western Penny Warbler.
No. 1. 32mo.
Glasgow: printed by Brown & Son. [c.1850]
32pp.
Half brown calf, dark green label. Bookplate &
signature of David Murray. t.e.g. v.g.
¶a)Fountain of Mirth. Oxford only on Copac.
b) Vocal Casquet. NLS & Oxford only on Copac.
c) Choice Collection of Comic Songs. Unrecorded.
d) Western Penny Warbler. Unrecorded.
The Morrison collection is bound between the
Caldwell publications. All parts have orig. printed
wraps except pp.25-48 which has a plain front wrap;
the first song is ‘Ax my eye’.
209
[c.1850] £110
MURRAY, David and Eunice, Collection continued
210. KYLE, Morison.
a) Kyle’s Comic Vocalist: containing the words of the
songs as edited and sung by Sam Cowell. Glasgow:
Morison Kyle. [c.1860] 92 pp.
b)W. Warde’s Comic Songster; a capital collection of
comic songs, as sung by W. Warde at the Surrey
Music Hall. Appleyard & Hetling, 1854. 72pp.
c) New and original comic songs. Written by William
Warde. (Second series.) Printed for the Author, by
George Harvey, 1849. pp. [2], ii,75-130.
3 works each in orig. printed wraps, 2 with ports. Half
brown calf, dark green label. Bookplate & signature of
David Murray. t.e.g. v.g.
¶a)Kyle’s Comic Vocalist. Oxford only on Copac.
b) Warde’s Comic Songster. Unrecorded.
c) New and original comic songs. Unrecorded.
The third work has wrappers printed on the back of
a larger earlier sheet, with imprint of C. Appleyard.
Sam Cowell and William Warde were both celebrated
comic singers.
1849-54 210
£110
NATIONAL WARBLER
211. NATIONAL. The National Warbler: a choice selection
of songs from the works of Robert Burns, Allan Ramsay.
2 parts. 32mo. Glasgow: John Cameron. Damp
marked. Orig. orange printed wraps. Half brown calf,
crimson label. Signature of David Murray. 64 + 60pp.
¶Not on Copac; Oxford has an Edinburgh edition of
1842. A similar collection is ‘The Scottish Songster’
see item 208.
[c.1850?] 211
£65
212. POSIE.
a) The Posie, Part I. A choice selection of the best
and most popular Scotch, English, and Irish songs,
... (New edn.) Glasgow: Adam Crawford, 1829.
Front. port of Braham. Orig. wraps. 54pp.
b) The Penny Songster. No. IV, VII, IX, XI, XII, XIXXXII, XXIV. Glasgow: W. Hamilton. [c.1839] Orig.
yellow wraps; sl. dusted.
c) A Choice Collection of all the New and Favorite
Songs. Vol.3. no.18(?) n.p. Two column text.
Without title or wraps, dusted. p.425-458.
d)The Comic Songster, Illustrated; ...
Glasgow:
printed for the Booksellers. (John Cameron?)
[c.1880?] Some marginal staining. Orig. wraps
printed in red & black; front wrap damaged.
e) The Comic Songster. No. XIX, XXI (2 copies), XXIIXXV, XXVII, XXX, 33-36. Glasgow: W. Hamilton.
J. Neilson, printer, Paisley. [c.1840-41] Orig.
wraps; sl. dusted.
5 items, 32mo; sl. dusting. Half brown calf, dark green
label. Bookplate & signature of David Murray. t.e.g.
¶a) Posie. Unrecorded. see also item 208..
b) Penny Songster. The Glasgow-published numbers
unrecorded.
c) Choice collection. Not found on Copac.
d) Comic Songster, Illustrated. Unrecorded.
e) Comic Songster. Unrecorded.
‘The Penny Songster’ from part XIX (part 7, 2nd series)
is edited by J. Jaap, Edinburgh. Part XII is from a
different edition in green wraps, published in Stirling
by D. Miller (see also item 208). Earlier issues of ‘The
MURRAY, David and Eunice, Collection
POSIE continued
Comic Songster’ are bound up separately (see item
207). In this set nos. XIX, XXIII-XXV, XXX are of the
2nd edition. Nos. 33-36 are also numbered as Nos.1-4
of ‘Drummond’s Comicalities’.
1829-c.1880. £180
D--M MY EYES!
213. HALL, Sam. The Sam Hall Songster. Pt 1: nos 1-5;
part 2: no 7; part 3: 11, 14, 15; part 4: nos 16-20.
Printed & published by E. Hewitt. 3 fronts, some
orig. front wraps dusted or sl. stained. Half brown
calf, dark green label. Bookplate & signature of David
Murray. t.e.g. v.g.
¶Not in BL or on Copac. A collection of music hall
songs named from the celebrated character created
by W.G. Ross. See also item 206.
[c.1850] 213
£125
YANKEE SMITH
214. SMITH, Yankee.
Yankee Smith’s London Comic
Songster; a selection of the best comic songs and
parodies. Pts 10-18. (2nd series.) 32mo. W. Strange.
Printed by R. Macdonald. Half brown calf, dark green
label (as Nigger Songs). Bookplate & signature of
David Murray. t.e.g. v.g.
¶Not on Copac; Oxford has No. 56 published by P.
MacDonald. Original monthly penny parts in wrappers.
Pagination p.1-260, without titlepage. Text is headed:
‘Popular Songs’. See also item 206.
[c.1849] £150
215. SONGSTER.
a) The Songster’s Multum in Parvo; or, New twopenny touch, for the lovers of harmony: embracing
all the popular songs singing at the Theatres Royal
... No.30, 49. 32mo. John Fairburn, 1809. pp.
61-72, 1-12.
b) Duncombe’s London Songster. No.9, 11. 32mo.
John Duncombe. [1821?] pp. 117-132, 145-160.
Four parts in orig. printed wraps. Half brown calf,
dark green label. Bookplate & signature of David
Murray. t.e.g. v.g.
¶a)The Songster’s Multum in Parvo extended to 6
vols. (in BL); Oxford has only Part 9.
b) Duncombe’s is unrecorded; Pt 9 includes a
portrait of Mr Stebbing as Jerry Sneak.
1809/1821 214
£85
216. VOCALIST.
a)The Vocalist’s Companion, a choice collection
of popular songs with music, ... intended for the
use of schools and public institutions. Glasgow:
Mitchison & Co. [c.1855] 64pp.
b) The Comic Vocalist: ... Glasgow: John Cameron,
1856. 4pp. ads. Orig. wraps. 128pp.
c) Popular Songs. n.p. [c.1850] Without titlepage or
wraps; dusted. pp.5-250.
d) The Little Gem, containing the newest songs of
the day. Glasgow: printed for the booksellers.
[c.1845?] Title from wrapper only. Orig. blue
wraps. 32pp.
Four items, 32mo; sl. marks & dusting. Half brown
calf, dark green label. Bookplate & signature of David
Murray. t.e.g. v.g.
MURRAY, David and Eunice, Collection
VOCALIST continued
¶a) Vocalist’s: NLS only on Copac.
b) Comic Vocalist: NLS only.
c) Popular Songs.
d) Little Gem: V&A Library only.
See also item 208. ‘Popular Songs’ might be the first
series of ‘Yankee Smith’s London Comic Songster’
which has this text title and similar typography (see
also item 214).
[c.1850-56] __________
£125
SCRAP BOOK
217. MUSIC HALL. A Collection of Music Hall and other Songs
in a Scrapbook. 4to. Orig. dark green album lettered
Newspaper Cuttings; splits at head of spine. 94pp.
¶A well laid out collection of words of music hall songs
cut from various sources and originally grouped by
singer: James Fawn, Harry Randall, James Curran and
then in random order, followed by some advertisements
with music and other advertised titles and finally
cuttings of articles on music hall, London and ballad
and sensational history.
An interesting collection
possibly belonging to Harry Hudson, a concert director,
whose list of song titles is loosely inserted.
[c.1882-1945] 218
£125
218. MYRTLE. The Myrtle Bower: a choice collection of
popular songs. H. Howell. Illus. Unopened in orig.
yellow printed wraps; sl. dusting. v.g. 12pp inc. wraps.
¶In the same format as ‘The New Satire’ and ‘The
Woodbine Wreath’ (see items 229 & 354).
[c.1840] £35
219. N., W. Merry Drollery Compleat, being Jovial poems,
merry songs, &c., collected by W.N., C.B., R.S., & J.G.,
... Now first reprinted from the final edition, 1691.
Edited, with a special introduction, ... by J. Woodfall
Ebsworth. Boston, Lincs: printed by Robert Roberts.
Half title, front., title in red & black, 8pp ads. Uncut in
orig. blue cloth; spine dulled, paper label. Bookplate
of A.J. MacCallum.
¶No. 322 of a subscription edition of 400 copies.
1875 £50
NATIONAL. The National Warbler. See item 211.
NEGRO MINSTREL NO. 1.
220. NEGRO. The Negro Minstrel: containing a choice
selection of the most popular negro songs. No.1.
Glasgow: printed for the booksellers. Recent coloured
wraps. 24pp.
¶Not in BL.
1850 221
£35
BRITISH GLORY
221. NELSON, Horatio, Viscount Nelson.
Nelson’s
Wreath; or, British Glory: containing a collection of
the most favorite sea, convivial, and other songs, sung
at places of public amusements, &c. Printed & sold
by J. Davenport. Vignette. Single sheet, opened &
stitched at spine. 8pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac. 17 songs: 1. A new song on
Lord Nelson’s Victory at Copenhagen.
[1801?] £125
222. NELSON, Horatio, Viscount Nelson.
Nelson’s
Wreath; or, British Glory: ... Printed & sold by T.
Evans. Vignette. Single sheet, opened & stitched at
spine. 8pp.
¶Apparently identical with the Davenport edition
except for altered imprint and colophon; Davenport is
not recorded after 1802.
[c.1803] £110
NEW
222
223. The New Concert Room Comic Songster. Glasgow:
David Jack & Son. Pin holes in last few leaves. Stabbed
as issued in orig. col. printed wraps. v.g. 64pp.
¶NLS only on Copac. Including songs sung in Scottish
music halls.
[c.1880?] £50
224. The New Covent Garden Concert. Being a choice
collection of the newest songs and airs, sung this
and the last season at Covent Garden and Drury
Lane theatres, Vauxhall, and other places of public
entertainment. Printed & sold by Howard & Evans.
Vignette. Single sheet, opened & stitched at fold; sl.
stained. 8pp.
¶This edition not on Copac; J.Evans edition is ESTC
T83738 (1795?) BL & Oxford only. 34 songs: 1. A
song in the Magic Cavern. ‘The Magic Cavern’ was first
staged in 1784, but ‘Iron Chest’ (1796) is also included
and ‘Trip to the Nore’ (1798). At head “Just published,
price One penny, with Additions”. The printers are not
recorded at their 41 Long Lane address before 1800
at the very earliest - probably slightly later than 1800.
[c.1805?] £110
225. The New Drury-Lane Concert; being a collection of the
newest and most approved songs. Printed by Howard
& Evans. Vignette. Folded as issued; sl. creased &
dusted at edges. 8pp.
¶This Howard & Evans edtiion not on Copac. 11
songs: 1. The Lucky Escape; many with seafaring
contents. Two J. Evans editions recorded by ESTC N
42123 & T 300889, c.1792. The rough grey paper is
laid, and the text employs long ‘s’, but such collections
usually have an old fashioned appearance and other
similar collections have been dated to c.1810.
[c.1805?] 225
£125
226. The New London Singer’s Companion, containing fifty
of the best comic and sentimental songs. No. 1, 2. Sold
wholesale by W.M. Clark, & J.T. Wood. Two column
text. Folded as issued; creased at corners, some edges
torn, dusted & marked.
¶Not in BL or recorded on Copac. Pt 2 contains 60
songs. Several are by Renton Nicholson.
[c.1845] £65
227. The New Musical and Vocal Cabinet comprising a
selection of the most favorite English, Scotch & Irish
melodies arranged for the voice, violin, flute &c. 2
vols. Thos Kelly. Engr. title, printed music; title to
Vol. I in facsimile, lacking pp.1-2, some pages marked
or dusted. 2 vols in 1 in later half green buckram;
spine dulled.
¶Vol. II colophon of T. Hamblin, Garlick Hill., listed by
P.A.H.Brown from 1817-27.
1820 £20
NEW continued
228. The New Royal Songster; being a choice collection
of the newest songs and airs, sung this and the last
season at Covent Garden and Drury Lane Theatres,
Vauxhall, and other places of public entertainment.
n.p. Single sheet, folded & unopened. v.g. 8pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac. 15 songs: 1. Can you to
the battle march away. No. 8: Ground Ivy has failed
to print. The title vignette may have been used for
a chapbook on the Cato Street or other conspiracy,
showing soldiers arresting seated men, but the format
is the same as Evans’s songsters c.1810-15.
[c.1820?] £65
229. The New Satire: a selection of comic songs. Printed
and published by H. Howell. Illus. Unopened in orig.
yellow printed wraps. v.g. 12pp. inc. wraps.
¶In the same format as ‘The Myrtle Bower’ and ‘The
Woodbine Wreath’ (see items 218 & 354). Including
song on the New Police Act (1829).
229
[c.1830?] 230. The New Skylark; being an entirely new
collection of the most-admired songs sung
Theatres, Astley’s, the Circus, Vauxhall, and
Dibdin. Printed by T. Evans. Title vignette.
sheet, folded & unopened.
£45
choice
at the
by Mr.
Single
¶Oxford & Newcastle only on Copac. 16 songs:
1. The Beggar girl.
[c.1810] £75
231. The New Surrey Songster. Pitts, Toy Warehouse, &c.
Illus. Double sheet length broadside songster in three
columns; creased at head & tail with old reinforcement
to lower edge.
¶The title probably refers to the Surrey Theatre, 181165. The first song is ‘Heavy Wet’. ‘March! March!’
is as sung by John Braham. The contents are the
same as those of ‘The Royal Haymarket Songster’
(item 280).
[c.1830] 230
£55
232. The New Vocal Harmony, or, The merry fellow’s
companion. Being a choice collection of songs, sung
at all the places of public entertainment. 4to. Printed
& sold by J. Davenport. Vignette. a single sheet,
unopened & stitched at spine; sl. damp marked, two
letters shaved.
¶ESTC T 77510 (1800?). 22 songs: 1. Margate Hoy.
[c.1802?] __________
£65
COMMUNITY SINGING MOVEMENT
233. NEWTON, Ernest.
The Community Sing-Song
Book, containing 120 songs, complete with words,
tonic-solfa and full piano accompaniment; specially
selected and arranged by Ernest Newton.
2nd
complete edn de luxe. Keith Prowse & Co. Music;
title from wrapper. Orig. printed card wraps, red
cloth spine; dusted.
¶Not in BL.
[c.1927] £20
234. NICHOLSON, Sydney H. British Songs for British
Boys: a collection of one hundred national songs
designed for the use of boys in schools & choirs;
selected, arranged, and ed. by Sydney H. Nicholson.
Macmillan. Pp.43-44 torn & repaired. Orig. red
printed wraps; dusted.
¶Words only of ‘fine, healthy songs’.
1911 £10
BROADSIDE
235. NORFOLK. The Norfolk & Norwich Sporting Songster.
[Norwich?] Extra long broadside with large royal arms
at head; sl creased & torn, old folds.
¶12 songs, not particularly sporting.
[c.1830?] £85
236. ODD FELLOWS. Odd Fellows Concert. Pitt, printer.
Illus. Double sheet length broadside songster in three
columns; tear with loss of a few letters in 9 lines, sl.
creased & damaged at one corner.
¶The first song is “Wake of Teddy Roe”, with three
songs as sung by Katherine Stephens and one by
Madame Vestris.
[c.1830?] £30
THE HONEST BALLAD SINGER
237. (O’GREEN, Robert) ROBINSON, John. The Honest
Ballad Singer. Drawn from the life and etch’d by John
Robinson. Half length portrait facing front in oval
frame, trimmed at edge of frame except for Robinson’s
credit at tail. Laid down on card.
¶O’Green is singing ‘The Burnley Haymakers: a new
song’. The image partly resembles the full length portrait
of O’Green aged 80 by Henry Spencer, 1785, reproduced
in item no. 306.
236
[c.1785?] £125 †
238. OLD. Old Woman and her Cats. ... Printed by J.
Catnach. 3 woodcuts. Quarter sheet broadside in
three columns; sl chipped at edges.
¶Four songs without general title; imprint is sl. defective.
[c.1830?] £40
O LOCHLAINN, Colm
239. Irish Street Ballads; collected and annotated by Colm O
Lochlainn and adorned with woodcuts from the original
broadsheets. FIRST EDITION. Dublin: printed &
published at the Sign of the Three Candles in Fleet Street;
London: Constable & Co. Half title, illus., music. Orig.
yellow buckram blocked in green. v.g. in sl. torn d.w.
1946 £50
240. Irish Street Ballads; collected and annotated by Colm
O Lochlainn ... Revised & reprinted. Dublin: printed
& published at the Sign of the Three Candles in Fleet
Street. Half title, illus., music. Orig. cream printed
boards; spine dusted.
1946 £25
240
241. More Irish Street Ballads; collected and annotated by
Colm O Lochlainn adorned with woodcuts from various
sources. FIRST EDITION Dublin: printed & published
at the Three Candles Press. Half title, illus., music. Orig.
yellow cloth blocked in brown. v.g. in sl. sunned d.w.
1965 £40
__________
242. ONE HUNDRED. One Hundred Comic Songs: music
and words. Musical Bouquet edn. Musical Bouquet
Office. Printed music, 4pp. cata. inserted ad. slip;
a few spots in text. Orig. yellow illus. wraps; ink
marked, spine neatly repaired.
¶BL & Oxford only on Copac. Sam Cowell’s portrait at
head of wrapper, and the first song his ‘Billy Barlow’.
1856 £50
CONCERT HALL COMPANION
243. ORIGINAL. The Original Concert Hall Companion.
(All the new sentimental and comic songs, as sung
by E.W. Mackney, Sam Collins, Paddy Ogden, Sims
Reeves, &c.) 4to. J.T. Wood. Illus., text in 4 columns;
spotted, creased & sl. torn at edges, old folds. A folded
sheet unopened at head. 8pp.
¶The full width illus. depicts carriages being driven to
Limerick races.
243
[c.1870] £35
244. OUR. Our Portrait series. No. 3. Albert Chevalier’s
Great Songs ... R. March & Co. Crudely col. portrait of
Florence St John, four column text. Single sheet once
folded; tear without loss, one old fold, sl. dusting.
¶A collection of current popular music hall songs as
sung by star performers, including those from the
Gaiety burlesques.
[c.1890] £40
245. PALMER, Yankee. Yankee Palmer’s Go A-head Comic
Songster. No. 3. 32mo. J.T. Wood. Folded in rather
soiled brown wraps, as issued. pp.59-86.
¶Issued in monthly penny parts; not recorded on Copac.
[c.1852?] £25
246. PARLOUR.
The Parlour Songster, containing a
superior collection of the most popular sentimental
songs, many of which are now first printed. Sm.
4to. New York: Turner & Fisher. Front. repaired in
margins, illus. Orig. dark brown cloth; spine rubbed,
pencil drawings & notes by C.M. Ripley on e.p.s.
1844 £35
PENNY. The Penny Songster. See items 208 & 212.
247. PERCY, Thomas. The Hermit of Warkworth: a
Northumberland ballad.
Embellished with wood
engravings by Nesbitt and Clennall, from designs by
Thurston. 4to. Printed for Robert Scholey. By Thomas
Davison, Whitefriars. Vignette, head & tail pieces; sl.
spotting. Uncut in sl. later half sheep, red label.
¶A handsome edition. Bound in are two leaves of
illustrative engravings by Bewick(?) published by W.
Davison, Alnwick, and an Orlando Hodgson silhouette
portrait of the Earl of Durham, 1833; two sl. creased
& torn at edges.
247
1806 £125
PERCY’S RELIQUES EDITED BY WHEATLEY
248. PERCY, Thomas. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,
consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other
pieces of our earlier poets, together with some few of
later date, by Thomas Percy, edited, with a general
introd., additional prefaces, notes, glossary, etc., by
Henry B. Wheatley. 3 vols. Swan Sonnenschein,
Lebas, & Lowrey. Half titles, titles in red & black, 8pp.
cata. each vol. Orig. maroon cloth, bevelled boards;
spines sl. faded. t.e.g. v.g.
¶First published in 1765.
1886 £120
249. PHILLIPS, Henry. Words of the Songs of Mr. H.
Phillips’ Entertainment. (D. Francis, printer, 21, Mile
End Road.) Orig. green printed wraps. Fine. 12pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac. Including Hebrew Melodies,
and one song with German text and translation.
Henry Phillips, 1801-1876, was singer, musician &
actor, who gave vocal entertainments and published a
number of collections, also his reminiscences in 1864.
[c.1850] £75
TAVERN SINGING
250. PICKWICK. The Pickwick Songster. Edited by Sam
Weller, and the Honorable members of ‘The Pickwick
Club’. Vol. 1, no.7-8. Printed & published by S.
Robins; Purkess; G. Berger. 2 parts. Illus. signed
C.J.G(rant); browned & chipped at edges, corner torn
from inner margin of pp. 55-56. Pp. 49-64.
¶Issued in 2 parts each of 8 numbers; BL & Oxford
only on Copac. Including songs by John Labern &
T.P. Prest, &c. with reviews of performances at The
Mogul and Royal Union Saloon. “Mr. T. Prest is in no
other way connected with this work, than by having
disposed of the copyright of his songs to it.”
250
[1838] £65
TEMPERANCE
251. PIERPONT, John.
Cold Water Melodies, and
Washingtonian Songster. Enlarged and improved.
2nd edn. Boston: Theodore Abbot. Orig. printed
boards, brown cloth spine faded. Cancelled label &
stamps of Harvard College Library.
1843 £35
PLEASING. The Pleasing Art of Money-Catching. See
item 208.
252. POETRY. The Poetry of Various Glees, Songs, &c.
as performed at the Harmonists. Printed at the
Philanthropic Reform, London-Road, St. George’s
Fields. [4], viii, [1], 6-115, [1]pp; 8vo. A v.g. clean
copy handsomely rebound in quarter sprinkled calf,
marbled boards, vellum cornerpieces, gilt dec. spine,
red morocco gilt label.
¶ESTC T124899 calls for a ‘plate’ which is not present
in this copy, but this may refer to the preliminary
leaf announcing that the work is ‘presented to the
Harmonists by George Fryer’. The collection of some
230 songs includes pieces by Dibdin, Mozart, Stevens,
Ireland, Haydn, Smart, and Percy.
1798 £150
LOVAT FRASER: WRAPPERS
253. POETRY BOOKSHOP.
Nurse Lovechild’s Legacy,
being a mighty fine collection of the most noble,
memorable and veracious nursery rhymes, embellished
by C. L[ovat] F[raser] for the Poetry Bookshop. 2nd
thousand. Printed for the Poetry Bookshop. Illus.
Orig. pink printed wraps; splits at edges.
252
¶Compiled from 18th & early 19th century chapbooks.
See also items 466 & 614.
1916 £35
BOARDS
254. POETRY BOOKSHOP.
Nurse Lovechild’s Legacy,
..., embellished by C. Lovat Fraser for the Poetry
Bookshop. 3rd thousand. Printed for the Poetry
Bookshop. Illus. Orig. brown printed boards, blue
cloth spine. v.g.
1919 £40
TAVERN COLLECTION?
255. POLLOCK, Charles Edward.
Good Ballads ...
Collected 1839-40. A quarto exercise book originally
used for learning Greek, with pasted-in broadside
ballads and a few ms. texts of songs, with two inserted
songs, some blank leaves with one pencil drawing
and a partial index at the end. Orig. brown boards;
marked with ink title on front, inner hinges splitting.
¶A note by Pollock in 1840 on pastedown & e.p. states
he has made the collection “pro bono publico” and
asks the public not to “bone” i.e. steal it. It is to cheer
them and amuse their friends. There are 55 numbered
& indexed pages, many containing songs published
by Catnach, and then a further 22 pages wholly or
partly covered. The songs are clearly from a number
of sources and the volume is an interesting example of
a popular collection intended for community singing,
probably in a tavern.
1839-40 £50
POPULAR
256. The Popular Budget.
Containing the following
collection: The political train. Five-and-twenty shillings
a week. John Bull and the taxes ... 4to. (H.P. Such.)
Two column text; browned & sl. torn at edges. 4pp.
¶Seven songs. Page 3 reprints one of Such’s quarter
sheet broadsides. The songs tend to support the
liberals but are very suspicious of the Salvation Army.
[c.1868] £30
Popular Songs. See item 216.
SAM COWELL
257. The Popular Songster. The House that Jack Built! New
comic song. Illustrated with eleven engravings. Printed
in colour by R. Macdonald. First page roughly printed in
black, red & blue, illus. single sheet, folded & unopened.
Marked & dusted, sm. hole in first leaf. (16pp.)
¶There are five other collections printed by P.
Macdonald, 30 Great Sutton Street, on Copac, but
not this. 31 songs. The running head is ‘Universal
songster’ and in one case ‘Beal’s Universal songster’.
The first page has a portrait of Sam Cowell beside
a blackboard, singing ‘The House that Jack Built’,
which is printed in full with extensive patter.
[c.1860?] __________
£45
NEGRO FOLK SINGING GAMES
258. PORTER, Grace Cleveland. Negro Folk SingingGames and Folk Games of the Habitants. Traditional
melodies and text transcribed by Grace Cleveland
Porter. Accompaniments by Harvey Worthington
Loomis. 4to. J. Curwen & Sons. (Curwen’s edition,
5756.) Illus., printed music. Orig. brown card wraps
with port. onlay; v. sl. bowed.
(1914) £75
255
POSIE. The Posie. See items 208 & 212.
PRIMROSE HILL
259. PRIMROSE HILL.
The Primrose Hill Collection,
containing an elegant selection of the most admired
songs now in estimation. Printed & sold by Jennings.
Vignette. Single sheet on greyish paper, opened and
stitched at spine; sl. stained. 8pp.
¶This Jennings edition Oxford only on Copac.
Later republished by Pitts, c.1830. 18 Songs:
1. Tom Carless [Careless]. With the signature of
Wm Joy 1811.
[1811?] £45
AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY
260. PRIOR, R.C. Alexander. Ancient Danish Ballads,
translated from the originals. 3 vols. Williams & Norgate. Orig. brown cloth. Bookplate of LN in vol. III. v.g.
259
¶Translations with extensive introductions. Inscribed
‘From the author’ in vol. I, with an ALS tipped in from
Hulse House Nr Taunton 9 Oct/91 presenting the
volumes to Mr Winwood.
1860 £180
GOOD & GODLIE BALLATES
261. PSALMS.
A Compendious Book of Psalms and
Spiritual Songs, commonly known as ‘The gude and
godlie ballates’. Reprinted from the edition of 1578.
Edinburgh: (W. Paterson) &c. Half title, glossary. Orig.
maroon cloth; spine faded & sl. rubbed, paper label.
¶Edited with long introduction by David Laing. One
of 350 copies.
1868 £35
262. QUAVER. The Quaver, being a collection of choice
songs and recitations for the present year. H. Grey.
Front. of Madame Pasta damp stained, some internal
marking. Orig. brown cloth; worn.
¶The title may be a cancel. The running head is
‘A choice collection of national songs’. Dated from
an inscription. P.A.H. Brown lists Grey as Gray
from 1830-48. Comprising lxiv pp. of recitations
and 512pp. songs. BL has two other editions but
not this.
[1841?] £25
263. QUAVER.
The Quaver;
or, Songster’s pocket
companion; containing upwards of one thousand
of the most popular songs, toasts, sentiments, and
recitations. 32mo. Charles Jones. Half title, added
engr. title, front. of a piper. Orig. dark brown cloth;
spine worn at head & tail, hinges splitting.
¶Imprint on engr. title is ‘Printed for the booksellers’
and the running head ‘A choice collection of national
songs’. The gatherings are coded 45.
1850 264
£30
SALOON SONGS
264. QUEEN. The Queen’s Own Songster; comic and
sentimental; as sung at the Queen’s and all other
theatres. For 1838. O. Hodgson. Fold. col. front.
Stabbed as issued; without wraps. Dusted & damp
marked at edges. 24pp.
¶BL & Oxford only on Copac. 68 songs in sixpenny
chapbook format.
The frontispiece, titled Royal
Victoria, depicts the early saloon singer Henry
Howell with his (satirical) dickey birds, as sung at
various concerts.
1838 £110
RANELAGH GARDENS
265. RANELAUGH. The Ranelaugh Concert, being a choice
collection of the newest songs sung at all the public
places of entertainment. n.p. Single sheet of greyish
paper, folded & unopened; sl. shaved at tail in some
places with loss of one line.
¶ESTC T 300847, Oxford only. All the copies on
Copac are dated pre-1800. 31 songs: 1. Hairy Cap.
Ranelagh Pleasure Gardens opened in 1742 and its
Rotunda was closed in 1803.
[1785?] £65
266. RANSFORD, Edwin. Mr. Ransford’s Annual English
Concert, Wednesday evening, Feb. 21. 1866. St.
James’s Hall. Printed by J. Mallett. Ads. Orig. blue
printed wraps; sl. dusted. 19pp.
¶Consisting largely of texts of the songs. Edwin
Ransford was a popular stage singer until his
retirement, when, as well as composing and publishing
music, with his family, he gave concerts and thematic
entertainments like those of the German Reeds.
1866 267
£20
267. RECITER. The Reciter’s Companion: comprising
the most popular recitations, dramatic readings, &c.
No. 4. 32mo. R. Macdonald. Stabbed as issued;
wraps detached, dusted and creased.
[c.1848] £25
RECITER. The Reciter’s Own. See item 208.
268. REGENCY. The Regency Songster, being a collection
of Harmonic Songs, sung at Ranelaugh and Vauxhall
Gardens, the Theatres Royal, and all other places of
public entertainment. Printed by J. Evans. Royal
arms on title. Single sheet, folded & unopened; paper
flaw shaving 2 letters. 8pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac. 41 songs with evidence of
re-numbering and old numbers unchanged: 1. Damon
and Celia.
[1812] £65
LUMBER-JACK SONGS
269. RICKABY, Franz.
Ballads and Songs of the
Shanty-Boy; collected and edited by Franz Rickaby.
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. Half title, front.,
plates, music. Uncut in orig. boards imitating wood,
brown cloth spine, paper label. v.g.
1926 £35
268
270. RICKABY, Franz. Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy;
... Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. Half title, front.,
plates, music. Orig. dark blue cloth, paper label. v.g.
1926 £30
RITSON, Joseph
See also items 153 & 636.
271. Ancient Songs and Ballads from the reign of King
Henry the Second to the Revolution; collected by
Joseph Ritson. 3rd edn carefully revised by W. Carew
Hazlitt. Reeves & Turner. Half title, glossary; the
odd spot in prelims. Contemp. half maroon morocco.
Bookplate of William John Robertson. t.e.g. v.g.
¶First published in 1790, this edition with new
preface, index & glossary.
1877 £50
RITSON, Joseph continued
272. Scottish Songs and Ballads. Collected and edited by
Joseph Ritson. New and revised edn, with glossary
and index. William Tegg. Half title, front. of Charles
Edward Stuart, 4pp cata. Orig. dark green cloth.
Armorial bookplate of John Harrison. v.g.
1866 £45
273. Scottish Songs and Ballads. ... William Tegg. Half
title, front. of James I, plate, 4pp. cata. Orig. dark
blue smooth cloth; sl. marked.
1866 £35
274. A Select Collection of English Songs, with their
original airs: and A historical essay on the origin and
progress of national song, by the late Joseph Ritson.
The second edn, with additional songs and occasional
notes. By Thomas Park. 3 vols. Printed for F.C. & J.
Rivington, &c. Sl. spotting. Later (1931) half dark
brown calf.
¶Vol.III contains printed music for the songs.
1813 __________
272
£320
275. ROBERTS, John S. The Legendary Ballads of England
and Scotland. Compiled and edited by John S.
Roberts. Frederick Warne. (Chandos classics.) Half
title. Orig. brown cloth; sl. rubbing. Victor Neuburg’s
copy, 1949.
¶First published in 1868.
[1870?] £25
276. ROBERTS,
Keith.
Northcountrie
Broadsheet
Balladrie, no.1-6. Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan: K.
Roberts. Illus., music. Small broadsides; some with
traces of folds.
¶Ballads on local mining and social themes. With a
later publication: The Sash my Father Wore, 1967, and
correspondence between the Author/publisher and
Leslie Shepard. With also another ballad ‘Cobcoaling’
(Published for The Cobcoalers on the Eagle Press, no.
196 of 300 copies, sl. sunned) sent from Wigan by
Dave Hurst with correspondence, 1967.
1965-67 £35
COMPILER’S PRESENTATION COPY
TO JOSEPH CRAWHALL
277. ROBINSON, Robert. A Garland of Christmas Carols.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Robert Robinson. Orig. wraps
of gilt & blue patterned paper with sl. flaw & trimming
at front fore-edge, & minor tears. 20pp.
¶BL & Oxford only on Copac. Fine paper copy.
Inscribed on title ‘With the Compiler’s Respects’ and
with an ALS to Joseph Crawhall dated Christmas
Eve 1877 tipped in at front, and a Robinson billhead
tipped in at end. Crawhall, an artist and collector,
1853-1913, has added two religious woodcuts, one
signed, on blank pages. Robinson was a Newcastle
bookseller, 1840-1887, with antiquarian interests.
277
[1877] £150
278. ROLLINS, Hyder E. Old English Ballads, 1553-1625,
chiefly from manuscripts. Cambridge: at the University
Press. Half title. Uncut in orig. brown boards, pink
cloth spine. Label & marks of the Signet Library.
1920 £40
279. ROSE. The Rose. J. Pitts, printer. Illus. Half folio
longer two column songster; sl. creased.
¶The first song is ‘Cherry Ripe’. Nine songs, one is as sung
by Madame Vestris, and another her popular ‘Buy a Broom’.
[c.1830?] £45
ROSS, W.G. The Ross Songster. See item 206.
ROYAL
280. The Royal Haymarket Songster. Pitts, toy warehouse.
Illus. Double sheet length broadside songster in
three columns; sl. browned & creased, with old
reinforcement at head.
¶The contents are the same as those of ‘The New
Surrey Songster’ (see item 231) but in a slightly better
impression. The illustration is different. Presumably
the sheets were sold outside the respective theatres.
[c.1830] £50
281. The Royal Songster. Printed by T. Birt. Quarter sheet
broadside in three columns; sl creased at corners.
¶Seven songs including Rule Britannia: King George
is mentioned in ‘God save the King!’.
[c.1828] £35
HUNTING SONGS
282. The Royal Sportsman’s Delight, being a choice collection
of hunting songs. Now singing at all the public places
of amusement. 4to. J. Pitts, printer. Vignette. Folded
as issued, unopened; sl. creased & dusted. 8pp.
¶Shepard p.105 & 141. A collection of 19 Hunting Songs.
[1825?] £45
283. The Royal Victoria Songster: being a selection of new
& popular songs. Durham: printed by George Walker,
jun. On bluish paper. Folded as issued; sl. dusted.
Disbound. 24pp.
¶Not in BL. 20 songs, beginning with Rory O’More.
1839 __________
£35
284. SAILOR. The Sailor’s Tear. ... n.p. 1 woodcut.
Quarter sheet broadside in three columns; sl. creased
with tear at one corner.
¶5 songs without general title.
[c.1840?] 283
£25
‘REMEMBER LIMERICK’
285. SARSFIELD. The Sarsfield Song and Recitation
Book. Dublin: James Duffy & Co. Two column text.
Stabbed in orig. green printed wraps with port.; some
browning. 32pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac. Named after Patrick
Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, the dashing Irish Jacobite
commander killed in 1693.
[c.1920] £25
MODERN BROADSIDES
286. SCOTT, Dave. Broadsheet. Seven tall folio broadsides.
n.p. Illus., music. 1 on red paper; sl. creasing.
¶Modern broadside ballads, some of traditional songs:
The mysterious lover, words & music by Chris Culbert
(on red paper), Cruising round Yarmouth, The Derby
Ram, Scarborough Fair, The Sheep-Stealer, The Foggy
Dew, The Hull Trawler Disaster [1968], by Frankie
Armstrong, tune by Ewan MacColl.
[c.1968?] £25
287. SCOTT, Harold. English Song Book; collected and
edited with an introd. by Harold Scott. 2nd impression.
Tall 8vo. Chapman & Hall. Half title, front. & plates,
music. Orig. dark blue buckram.
¶18th and 19th century songs. With the pencil
signature of Elsa Lanchester, Gordon Square.
1926 £20
288. SCOTT, Sir Walter, Bart. Minstrelsy of the Scottish
Border, consisting of historical and romantic ballads
collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland, with
a few of modern date founded upon local tradition;
edited, with a new glossary, by Thomas Henderson.
George G. Harrap & Co. Half title, front., plates. Orig.
blue cloth. v.g.
¶First compiled by Scott in 1802-03.
1931 £25
SCOTTISH. The Scottish Minstrel. 6th series. See
item 208.
SCOTTISH. The Scottish Songster. See item 208.
289
IRISH COMIC SONGS
289. SENSATION. The Sensation Book of Irish Comic
Songs: containing a large collection of the merry,
witty, and humorous songs of ould Ireland than was
ever offered at the price before. Glasgow: Cameron &
Ferguson. 16pp cata. Orig. pictorial yellow wrappers,
printed in black, back cover ad. v.g.
¶Price: 2d. Not recorded on Copac.
[c. 1880] £75
SENSATION SEA SONGS
290. SENSATION. The Sensation Book of Sea Songs;
containing a larger collection of naval songs and
sentiments than was ever offered at the price before.
Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson. 14pp. ads. Orig. pink
illus. wraps; one sm. chip in lower margin.
¶Price 2d. Not recorded on Copac.
[c.1875?] £75
291. SHARP, Cecil J. English Folk-Song: some conclusions. 2nd edn. 4to. Novello & Co. Music. Orig.
dark blue cloth.
1936 £20
292. SHARP, Cecil J. Fifty Folk Songs, compiled at the
request of the English Folk Dance Society. 12mo.
Novello & Co. Orig. buff printed wraps; dusted & sl.
creased. 55pp.
¶The price increased from threepence to fourpence.
With: ‘Twelve English Folk Carols’ selected for the
English Folk Dance and Song Society, 5 of their song
sheets with music, and ‘A list of books for the study of
English Folk Song’, typewritten, c.1950.
290
[1915] £35
293. SHARP, G.(?) Sharp’s New London Songster; being
a collection of the newest & most favorite songs of the
day. No. 13. James Pattie. Folded as issued. Dust
marked, with tears in lower margin. pp.193-208.
¶43 songs. An advertisement along the spine
advertises a Life of the late Sir Charles Napier. BL has
a similar No. 13 published by G. Sharp. James Pattie’s
address in Shoe Lane, Fleet Street is not listed.
[c.1853] £25
294. SHARP, John W. The Vauxhall Comic Song-Book.
Edited by J.W. Sharp. Second series. 32mo. T. Allman.
Added engr. title as ‘Sharp’s Vauxhall Comic Song
Book’. Orig. red cloth; dulled & worn at head & tail of
spine, lacking f.e.ps. a.e.g.
¶BL has neither of the two series. Sharp, or Sharpe,
1818-1856, was a singer in the London supper rooms,
who died in destitution.
[1847] £25
PROTEST SONGS
295. SHEPARD, Leslie. His Collection of Political and
Protest Songs. Various publishers, mostly undated.
16 items. Some illus. & music.
¶Printed and cyclostyled songs in various formats,
including Anti-Nuclear songs issued in ‘Sing’ and
‘Sing Up’ published by John Foreman, Anti-Polaris
songs, songs published by Industrial Workers of the
World, the NUS and the Workers’ Music Association.
1952-62 £50
296. SHIRBURN. The Shirburn Ballads 1585-1616; edited
from the MS by Andrew Clark. Oxford: Clarendon
Press. Front., illus. Orig. orange buckram; dulled
paper label chipped but replacement intact, leading
e.p. pasted down. Cancelled library stamps.
¶An important collection of ballads transcribed from
printed examples.
1907 £20
297. SINGERS. The Singers’ Companion. 100 songs,
popular, classical and humorous. Bayley & Ferguson.
Orig. blue cloth; sl. dulled.
¶With music.
[c.1900] 298
£15
298. SINGERS. The Singers’ Hand-Book. A collection of all
the new and popular songs. No.4. Printed & published
by Edward Elliot. Illus in style of Cruikshank or Jones,
two column text. Folded as issued; creased at corners.
¶Published weekly in very small type and probably a
piracy. Pts up to 12 are known.
[c.1838?] £30
299. SKY-LARK. The Sky-lark: a choice selection of the
most admired popular songs, ... arranged for the violin,
flute, and voice. New and improved edn. Thomas Tegg;
Glasgow: R. Griffin; Dublin: J. Cumming & Paris: M.
Baudry. Engr. title is trimmed & laid down with early
repair in prelims, printed music. Early olive green
cloth; splitting to spine, green leather label.
¶With music.
[1828] £50
300. SKYLARK. The Skylark, a collection of popular songs.
Durham: printed by George Walker, jun. Folded as
issued, traces of stab holes. Unopened. 24pp. v.g.
¶18 songs.
1839 £35
SMITH, Yankee. Yankee Smith’s London Comic
Songster. See item 214.
300
SMITH, Yankee.
See item 206.
Yankee Smith’s Nigger Melodist.
301. SNOW, Granny. Granny Snow Songster. Containing
all the new and favourity songs of the day. Bishop
& Co., Houndsditch. Hand-col. illus on p.1. Single
sheet folded & partly unopened.
Dusted & sl.
creased. (16pp.)
¶Not recorded on Copac. 39 songs. ‘Granny Snow’ is
by Harry Clifton; containing a number of Irish songs.
[c.1865?] £40
PARTS
302. SOCIAL. The Social Songster; the most elegant
edition of popular songs, ever published. No. 16, 25,
27, 28, 30, 46, 47. 32mo. (Cowie & Strange.) Illus.
Nos 16 & 27 stabbed in plain wraps & the rest in orig.
yellow printed wraps. Some parts unopened.
302
¶Oxford has a 3 vol. collection under this title, but with
different sub-title. No. 16 contains the title, prelims
& contents of vol. I, the remaining nos each have a
humorous frontispiece.
1828 &c. £55
303. SOLDIER. The Soldier’s Festival; or, A vocal magazine:
containing twenty-three of the newest and most
favourite martial, love, convivial, and sea songs, sung
at the theatres, convivial societies, and honoured with
public approbation. Printed & sold by J. Davenport.
Vignette. Single sheet of greyish paper, opened &
sewn along spine. 8pp.
¶Three copies recorded on Copac, all at Oxford. 23 songs:
1. The Soldier’s medley.
[1801] £75
304. SONGS. Songs of Ireland. n.p. Single large folded
sheet of newsprint; browned, tiny splits & sl. dusting
at edges, once folded.
¶Words of 17 songs, the first is ‘The Irish Flag’.
[c.1920?] 303
£20
305. SONGS. The Songs of the Tyne; being a collection of
Popular Local Songs. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: William
R. Walker, printer. Title border. Folded as issued.
v.g. 24pp.
¶Not in BL. 17 songs listed, some of which include
passages of spoken patter. One refers to the death of
Billy Purvis (1853).
[c.1860] £35
SONGSTER. The Songster’s Multum in Parvo. See
item 215.
306. SPIEGEL, Fritz. Genuine Liverpool Street Songs and
Broadside Ballads ... as described by the anonymous
folk poets and ballad singers of the day. Descriptive
notes by Fritz Spiegel. Obl. (Liverpool:) Scouse
Press. (Liverpool packets, no. 1.) Illus. Orange folder
containing facsimiles with printed introductions.
¶With related correspondence from Leslie Shepard
& others.
1966 305
£20
307. SPIEGEL, Fritz. Genuine Liverpool Street Songs
and Broadside Ballads ... Obl. (Liverpool:) Scouse
Press. (Liverpool packets, no. 1.) Illus. Orange folder
containing facsimiles with printed introductions.
1966 £10
SPORTSMAN’S SONGSTER
308. SPORTSMAN. The Sportsman’s Songster, consisting
of hunting & bacchanalian songs. Printed by & for W.
Cole. Hand col. front. & engr. title, two column text.
Unopened in orig. pink wraps with same engr. plate &
vignette title on covers; marked & dusted. Crewe Hall
Library bookplate tipped in. 36pp.
¶Oxford only on Copac. Text title: Hodgson’s New
hunting and bacchanalian song book.
[c.1826] £85
SPOUTER’S ALBUM
309. SPOUTER. The Spouter’s Album. A variety of new
songs. J. Catnach. Long broadside with City coat of
arms; sl creased at edges, once folded.
¶17 songs, one dated March 3d 1825.
[c.1825] £45
310. SPRIGHTLY.
The Sprightly Songster;
being a
collection of the newest songs now singing at the
different places of public amusement, and in all
convivial assemblies. Printed by Howard & Evans.
Vignette. Single sheet of greyish paper, opened &
stitched at spine; one page printed over creasing.
¶BL only on Copac, not mentioning publisher. 12 songs:
1. Poor Pil Garlic. At head: ‘Just published, price one
penny - 1810’.
1810 £75
LONDON BALLAD CONCERTS
311. ST JAMES’S HALL. London Ballad Concerts. Book
of Words of the Third Concert, Wednesday, December
9th, 1885. Boosey & Co. Ads. Stabbed in orig. grey
printed wraps; sl. dusted. 11, (5)pp.
¶Programme with texts and translations; singers
included Charles Santley and Antoinette Sterling.
1885 £15
312. SULLIVAN, Timothy Daniel. National Songs. No. 1-2.
Dublin: T.D. Sullivan. Music. Disbound. No. 1 sl.
dusted. Each 16pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac. Irish songs in penny parts.
[c.1885?] 313
£35
313. SUMNER, George Heywood. The Besom Maker &
other country folk songs; collected and illustrated
by Heywood Sumner.
Longmans.
(Printed by
Spottiswoode & Co.) Illus., music, printed on one side
of leaf only; stained at end, with some spotting. Orig.
beige glazed paper covered boards, printed in maroon
& black; hinges cracking but sound.
¶An attractively illustrated volume by the antiquarian
and disciple of William Morris.
1888 £40
SWEET
314. The Sweet Home Songster. Printed for & sold by the
booksellers. Illus. A single sheet folded & unopened;
sl. dusted. (16pp.)
¶Oxford only on Copac. The title vignette is a view of
Durham City, and songs include ‘The Pretty Girls of
Darlington’, so this is probably a Northern compilation.
Some composers and poets are named: there is a
lively illustration for ‘Vilikins and his Dinah’, and other
music hall & Christy’s Minstrels’ songs are included.
[c.1860?] £35
SWEET continued
315. The Sweet Robin. Being a choice collection of much
admired song, now singing at all the public places of
amusement. Pitts, printer. Vignette. Single sheet on
greyish paper folded as issued, unopened. 8pp.
¶17 songs: 1. Sweet Robin. Pitts’ address is 6
Great S. A[ndrews] Street. More roughly printed
and containing only 4 of the songs in the following
collection, but with the same vignette.
[c.1820?] £40
SWEET ROBIN
316. The Sweet Robin Collection. Containing the newest
songs now singing at all the public places of
amusement. Printed & sold by J. Pitts, 14, Great
St. Andrew Street. Vignette. Single sheet, opened &
stitched at spine. 8pp.
¶Not listed by Shepard. 15 songs: 1. Sweet Robin.
[c.1815?] __________
316
£45
317. TAILLEFER, Nugent, pseud.
Rondeaus of the
British Volunteers. 2nd edn. Lamborn Cock & Co.
Orig. maroon cloth, gilt blocked on front board; a
little dulled.
¶With a long preface dated from Dover, 1870. The
Marquis of Anglesey’s signed copy, 1966.
1872 £35
BANG-UP SONGSTER
318. TANDEM. The Tandem, or Bang-Up Songster. A
choice collection of the newest songs, now singing at
all the pulic (sic) places of amusement. Printed & sold
by J. Pitts. Vignette. Single sheet of greyish paper,
opened & stitched at spine. 8pp.
¶NLS only on Copac. 13 songs: 1. Poor Mad Margery.
[c.1815] £65
319. TAR. The Tar of All Weathers; or, A British seaman’s
chest of conviviality. Containing a first-rate collection
of celebrated sea & torch songs. Devonport: printed
& sold by Samuel & John Keys. Sold at Stone’s
Stationery Warehouse, Exeter; & by S.B. Taylor,
Totnes. Tear in outer margin without loss, sl. creased,
a few spots. Stabbed as issued in orig. orange illus.
wraps; sl. chipped. 16pp.
¶Cambridge only on Copac. 44 songs. The text
pages have at head only ‘The Tar of all weathers’ and
possibly were issued by various publishers.
[c.1845?] 318
£50
320.TAYLOR, Tom. Ballads and Songs of Brittany,
translated from the “Barsaz-Breiz” of Vicomte
Hersart de la Villemarque, with some of the
original melodies harmonized by Mrs. Tom Taylor
... 4to. FIRST EDITION. Macmillan. Front., title
vignette & illus, music; a few spots with foxing to
tissue guard. Orig. brown cloth by Burn; a little
rubbed. t.e.g.
¶Fine illustrations by Tissot, Millais, Tenniel, C. Keene,
E. Corbould and H.K. Browne. Tom Taylor’s wife was
the composer Laura Barker.
1865 £45
321. TAYLOR, Tom. Ballads and Songs of Brittany, ...
FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to. London & Cambridge:
Macmillan & Co. Front., title vignette, illus, music.
Partly unopened in orig. brown cloth; noticeably
affected by damp. Bookplate of J.A. Jamieson.
1865 £35
FIFTEEN COPIES ONLY
322. THREE. Three Doly Ditties on Darlington. n.p. Signs
of laying down at spine. (8pp.)
¶A scholarly account of two ballads involving Lord
Darlington (an alternative to Lord Barnard), and the town.
One of fifteen copies, not located on Copac or in BL.
1849 £35
323. TIDDLE-A-WINK. The Tiddle-a-Wink Songster. Macdonald & Co.; J.T. Wood. A single sheet folded; split
along most folds, creased at edges & dusted. 8pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac. Claiming the songs to
be original:
‘Persons pirating the same will be
prosecuted’.
The Tiddle-a-Wink Quadrille was
published in 1864.
1863 £35
324. TOMMARROO. Tommarroo Songster; containing all
the new and popular songs now singing at the Theatres
Royal, Rotunda, and all places of public amusement,
by Freeman, Beular, Hudson, Bruton, &c. ... 24mo.
Lovelace; Purkess. (Hetherington, printer.) Fold col.
front. ‘Scrag fect’. Unopened in orig yellow printed
wraps; sl. marked. v.g. 48pp.
¶BL only on Copac. Title headed: ‘New comic songs!!!’
Includes: ‘Gurney’s Steam Coach. Wery Ridiculous’.
The steam coach invented by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney,
based on Trevithick’s engine, travelled from London to
Bath & back again at an average speed of 14 m.p.h.
[1833?] 325
£65
325. TRAVELLER.
The Traveller’s Amusement. Pitt,
printer. Illus. Double sheet length broadside songster
in three columns; sl. creased & dusted at head & tail.
¶The first song is ‘[Sa]ilor’s Harvest Home’. ‘The
Mountain Maid’ is as sung by Mr Sinclair and two
songs are as sung by Madame Vestris.
[c.1830?] £85
326. TRUE, Uncle. Uncle True Songster. 16mo. Philadelphia, &c.: Fisher & Brother. Front & title vignette.
Orig. green pict. wraps. v.g.
¶Pp.131-148, 62-102, [1] of an earlier collection with
running head ‘Popular songs’. The British Library has
similar 1851 collections.
[1851?] £75
GIFT TO THE WORKING CLASSES
327. TURNERELLI, Edward Tracy. Three Jubilee Songs.
7th issue. (Leamington): privately printed. With
yellow ribbon tie in orig. grey printed wraps; sl.
marked. (12)pp.
326
¶Not recorded on Copac. Wrapper headed: ‘A gift to the
working classes’. An interesting survival. Turnerelli,
who includes a small portait photograph of himself
inside the back wrapper feels the average Englishman
wants a good honest hearty song, rather than formal
tributes by the poet laureate. This collection comprises
three 4pp. song leaflets: The People’s Jubilee Song
(5th issue, with the writer’s compliments); The Jubilee
Song of the Primrose League (8th issue); The PoorSchool Children’s Jubilee Song (4th issue). Turnerelli,
who had spent some time in Russia, devoted the rest
of his life to fostering conservative principles.
1887 £75
TWO WENCHES AT ONCE
328. TWO. Two wenches at once. ... n.p. 1 sm. woodcut.
Quarter sheet broadside in three columns; sl. browned
with one hole in, & sl chipping to, margins
¶5 songs without general title.
[c.1840?] £20
329. TYNESIDE. The Tyneside Songster: humorous and
descriptive songs in the Newcastle dialect. Published
by Davidson, Alnwick, about ... 1840. Republished.
Newcastle-on-Tyne: Allan; North Sheilds: R. Allan.
8pp ads. Orig. brown cloth; sl. rubbing. Bookplate of
A.H. Higginbottom.
¶A substantial 560pp including lists of members and
a full list of publications.
1889 £25
330. UNIVERSAL. The Universal Vocalist and Singer’s
Companion. No. 1, 2, 4, 6. J. Pattie; & F. Bowering.
Two column text. 4 parts partly unopened in orig.
cream printed wraps; dusted.
¶Not on Copac. Nos 4 & 6 published by Bowering
alone and consisting of a folded sheet loosely inserted
in wrapper.
[c.1845] £45
VOCAL
332
The Vocal Casquet. See items 208 & 209.
331. The Vocal Harmony; or Loyal Briton’s Concert: being a
choice collection of the most favorite songs (s)ung this
season at Vauxhall, the Theatres, and by Mr. Dibaen
(sic). Howard & Evans. Ornamental tailpiece above
imprint. Single sheet, folded & unopened; edges sl.
creased. v.g. 8pp.
¶Leeds & Oxford only on Copac. 21 songs: 1. Tink a
Tink. Beside the misspelling of Dibdin, the second ‘l’ in
Vauxhall is broken. The title is headed ‘Just published’.
[c.1810] £50
CABINET SONGSTER
332. The Vocal Library; containing nearly a thousand
songs and recitations; ... 4 parts. 32mo. F.J. Mason.
Front. & 3 other engr. ports, illus. Orig. purple
patterned cloth; faded & sl. marked, black paper
label. v.g. A very nice copy.
¶Not on Copac. A reissue of the 4 series of The Cabinet
Sonster [c.1833], originally published in parts. The
portraits are of John Braham, Henry Phillips, Mary
Ann Wood & Jane Shirreff. The woodcut illustrations
are mainly by Robert Seymour but the titlepage also
refers to ‘Cruikshank’.
[c.1835] 333
£150
333. Vocal Museum, containing twenty-one of the newest
songs, sung at Vauxhall, the Theatres and Convivial
Societies. Printed by J. Evans. Vignette. Single sheet,
folded & unopened. v.g. 8pp.
¶This issue published by J. Evans is not on Copac.
No. 1. Beggar Boy.
[c.1812] £60
VOCAL continued
CAMP COMPANION
334. The Vocal Volunteer; and British soldier’s camp
companion: containing all the most popular martial
songs in the English language:
with interesting
biographical memoirs of the most celebrated vocal
performers. ... Printed by J. Cundee, for T. Hurst.
Engr. front. heavily hand col., 2pp Hurst ads, last
page (blank) laid down; corners rounded. Early brown
wraps reusing exercise book cover with engraving of
cockerel; worn.
¶Not in BL. Only 5 theatrical performers are mentioned.
1808 __________
£40
VOCALIST
335. The Vocalist, a choice collection of songs now singing
at all the public places of amusement. 32mo. Printed
by J. Pitts. Illus. Stabbed as issued in orig. yellow
printed wraps; sl. dusted. 16pp.
¶Not on Copac. In the same format as ‘The Drury
Lane Concert’ and ‘The Mill’ (see items 120 & 201).
335
[c.1830?] £45
The Vocalist. Falkirk, [c.1840]. See item 208.
The Vocalist’s Companion. See item 216.
__________
336. WALKER, William. The Southern Harmony Songbook:
American guide series; reproduced, with an introd.
by the Federal Writers’ Project of Kentucky, ... Obl.
New York: Hastings House. Front., illus., music; sl.
affected by damp. Orig. orange printed boards, black
cloth spine; split at tail of leading hinge.
¶Cambridge only on Copac. A facsimile of the 1854
Philadelphia edition of ‘tunes, hymns, psalms, odes,
and anthems’.
1939 £85
JACK THE NEWSBOY
337. WALLACE, John, Junior. Jack, the Newsboy, a
new and original service of song; narrative and lyrics
by John Wallace, junr. Music by William A. Walker.
Otley: William Walker & Sons. Printed music. Orig.
green printed wraps; partly browned & chipped at
edges, splitting at spine. 31pp.
¶Not on Copac. An uplifting prose narrative
interspersed with songs and hymns in score and
tonic solfa form for performance at noncomformist
gatherings. William Walker was presumably related
to the popular publisher whose similar publications
are advertised on final page and wrappers.
[c.1890] WARDE, William.
See item 210.
336
£35
New and Original Comic Songs.
WARDE, William. W. Warde’s Comic Songster. See
item 210.
338. WATER-CRESSES. Water-cresses! And 25 other new
and popular songs. The author’s edition. J.T. Wood.
Illus. hand col. single sheet folded & unopened; hole
pierced through one corner of margin, sl. chipped &
dusted. (16pp.)
¶BL & Oxford have scores for ‘Water-Cresses’ but this
songster not recorded on Copac. Water-cresses is by
Harry Clifton who performed at Evans’s Rooms and
who may be portrayed in the illustration. Some pages
bear numbering between 29 and 80(?). Advertising
Wood’s London Lace Paper Company.
[c.1865?] £50
339. WATTS, Isaac. Divine Songs, in easy language, for
the use of children. 12mo. Houlston & Stoneman.
Front., illus. Orig. olive green cloth wraps. v.g. 72pp.
¶BL & TCD only on Copac. With presentation
inscription to Mary Ann Watkins, Dec. 23, 1854, and
bookseller’s ticket of E. Burn, Brighton. See also
item 696.
339
[1851] £35
340. WATTS, Isaac. Divine Songs, attempted in easy
language for the use of children.
Facsimile
reproductions ... with an introd. and bibliography by
J.H.P. Pafford. Oxford Univ. Press. (Juvenile library.)
Front., port., illus. Orig. maroon cloth. Near mint in
price clipped d.w.
¶Containing facsimiles of the 1715 first edition and an
illustrated edition c.1840.
1971 £12
341. WELLINGTON, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of. Wellington’s Wreath, being a choice collection of songs, sung
at the various places of public entertainment. Printed
& sold by J. Evans, & Son. Vignette. Single sheet
of greyish paper, opened & stitched along fold; sl.
creased at edges. 8pp.
¶Not on Copac. 20 songs: 1. On the banks of Allan
Water. No. 4: Wellington and glory for ever! refers to
the Battle of Salamanca and gives its date as July 22,
1812; no. 18 also extols Salamanca.
[1812?] 341
£45
NORWICH MINSTREL
342. WELLS, John Shadalow. The Norwich Minstrel;
containing several hundred of the most admired
and approved songs, interspersed with select and
original poetry. Compiled by J.S. Wells. Norwich:
printed for J.S. Wells, by P. Cranefield. Leading
f.e.p. laid down. Contemp. half calf; sl. rubbing,
dark brown label.
¶With an Address to Subscribers but no list. Not
in BL.
1831 WESTERN.
209.
£75
The Western Penny Warbler.
See item
MUSIC HALL
343. WESTON’S MUSIC HALL. Weston’s Grand Music
Hall, 242, High Holborn. No. 27. (A selection of songs,
duets, glees, madrigals, choruses, &c.) Printed by
H.M. Arliss. Two column text; one page detached. orig.
blue printed wraps; creased at edges & marked. 14pp.
¶Not on Copac. The wrappers include details of
performers and the prices for drinks: spirits all 6d and
beer 4d, champagne 10s. per bottle, &c. Inside the back
wrapper is an extract from Charles Dickens’s ‘All the
Year Round’ describing this Music Hall, March 23, 1861.
342
[c.1861] £40
344. WHISTLE-BINKIE. Whistle-Binkie; a collection of
songs for the social circle. (4th-5th series, Nursery
songs.) 32mo. Glasgow: David Robertson Added engr.
title with vignette. Orig. green cloth; sl. rubbed.
¶Each part separately paged, with facsimile signatures
of the authors of the poems.
1853 £25
345. WHISTLE-BINKIE. Whistle-Binkie or The piper of
the party, being a collection of songs for the social
circle. 2 vols. 4to. Glasgow: David Robertson & Co.
Half titles. Uncut in orig. brown cloth; sl. rubbing to
spines & paper labels.
344
¶One of the large paper edition of 200 copies. First
collected in 1853.
1878 £45
BOURBON SONGSTER
346. WHITE. The White Cockade; or, Bourbon Songster:
being a patriotic collection of songs on the downfall of
tyranny, and restoration of Louis XVIII. to the Throne
of France ... Printed by J. Evans & Son. Rough
vignettes. Single sheet of greyish paper, opened &
stitched at spine. 8pp.
¶BL & Oxford only on Copac. 14 songs: 1. The Triumphant Entry of the Allies into Paris.
[1814] £45
347. WHITE. The White Squall. ... n.p. 1 woodcut. Quarter
sheet broadside in three columns; sl. browned &
chipped at edges.
¶6 songs without general title, including one minstrel
song ‘Coal black Rose’.
[c.1840?] £20
348. WHOLE HOG. The Whole Hog or None Songster.
Printed by W.S. Fortey. Crudely hand-col. illus.
Single sheet folded & opened. Some creasing. (16pp.)
346
¶Not on Copac, which records other editions 18601874. 27 songs named, with others. The illustration
is of a black-face performer singing the title song, and
is probably its author E.W. Mackney, or Machney.
[c.1865?] £50
WIFE. The Wife of Beith. See item 51355.
349. WILKINS, W. Walker.
Political Ballads of the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries annotated by
W. Walker Wilkins. 2 vols. Longman. Half titles, 2pp
ads vol. II, 24pp cata. (Oct. 1860), ads on e.ps. Orig.
brown cloth, by Westleys & Co. v.g.
¶With portraits of Charles I & II added. Presentation
inscription from Brooke Smith to his daughter 1861,
and bookplates of Herbert John Gladstone.
1860 £85
WINCHESTER COLLEGE
MANUSCRIPT OF WINCHESTER SLANG & SONGS
350. Manuscript volume of Winchester College Slang and
School Songs. 4to. (Winchester.) An exercise book
with feint rules, manuscript on 95pp, rectos only.
Disbound.
349
¶40 leaves of neatly written vocabulary arranged
alphabetically, followed by 96 leaves of songs with
a title index. The College is identified only by a laid
WINCHESTER COLLEGE continued
down printed leaf of a caricature & poem ‘Painted on
the Wall at Winchester College’ and a coat of arms.
There is nothing to identify the owner. The final song
is ‘Gentle Zitella’.
[c.1870?] £450
351. Songs. n.p. Pencil marks in Contents. Red binder’s
cloth; spine dulled. 82pp.
¶Sole copy at Oxford on Copac. This is identified by
comparison with the 1919 edition. Including ‘God
Save The Queen’; with signature of Maurice Caillard
and the words of three songs added in manuscript on
blank paper at the end. Included is a letter from the
Winchester College archivist John H. Harvey, 1962,
describing the publishing history of the collection
which states that it was first published in 1914.
[1883] £75
352. Songs. (Winchester:) P. & G. Wells, booksellers to
Winchester College. Orig. red cloth with College crest;
sl. marked, spine dulled. 104pp. Signature of S.G. Gates.
¶Sole copy at Oxford on Copac.
1919 __________
350
£45
353. WINDSOR. Windsor Songster. Printed by J. Catnach.
Royal arms at head, letterpress music. Double sheet
length broadside songster in three columns; sl. creased.
¶‘Hurrah for the bonnets of blue’ and ‘Oscar’s Ghost’
with music. The song ‘Lemminy’ is dated Mar. 15, 1819,
and ‘The King! God bless him!’ figures prominently.
[1819?] £85
354. WOODBINE. The Woodbine Wreath: a collection of
new sentimental songs. H. Howell. Illus. Unopened
in orig. yellow printed wraps; sl. dusting. v.g. 12pp
inc. wraps.
¶Including an acrostic on Victoria our Queen, and
referring to her marriage. In the same format as ‘The
Myrtle Bower’ and ‘The New Satire’ see items 218 & 229.
[c.1840] £45
355. WOODWARD, G.R.
The Cowley Carol Book for
Christmas, Easter, and Ascension-tide; compiled and
arranged by G.R. Woodward. Revised & enlarged edn.
A.R. Mowbray & Co. Music; sl. dusting. Orig. card
wraps, covered in blue hand-printed paper, paper
label; sm. split at tail of spine.
¶An unconventional selection, with music.
1920 £15
356. YANKEE. The Yankee Budget. n.p. Single folded
sheet of newsprint; browned, sl. chipped at edges.
¶Words of 9 songs beginning with ‘Ole Clo’ (the cry of
Old Clothes sellers).
356
[c.1920?] £20
357. YOUNG. The Young Men and Maids Delight. Being a
choice collection, of the newest songs, now singing at
all the public places of amusement. 4to. Printed &
sold by J. Pitts. Vignette. folded as issued, unopened;
sl. creased & dusted. 8pp.
¶BL & NLS only on Copac. Not listed by Shepard.
Containing 23 songs, including ‘Old Mr. December’.
[1825?] £45
SONGSTERS: Place of Publication or Printing
GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND
OVERSEAS
A
N
Australia
Aberdeen208
Newcastle-uponTyne
Outside London
Ashton-inMakerfield
276
B
Belfast123
Boston, Lincs
219
North Shields
66, 329
Norwich
235, 342
Nottingham78
Brighton164
O
C
Oxford
Cambridge
278, 321
Chester-le-Street7
Cockermouth4
66, 277, 305,
329
Otley337
41, 296, 340
46, 283, 300
USA
269, 270
144
Melrose, Mass.
42
New York
2, 6, 25, 34,
40, 51, 58, 59,
68, 90, 131,
149, 246, 336
Shannon53
Philadelphia
1, 3, 18, 141,
326
W
Pittsburgh133
19, 82, 130,
208, 209, 212
Stourport49
Dunfermline208
Weybridge93
E
Winchester
Edinburgh
Paris299
Kalamazoo, Mich.
Paisley
S
Durham
France
57, 155, 251
Darlington191
52, 121, 122,
182, 239-241,
285, 299, 312
Toronto &
Vancouver80
Cambridge, Mass.
Plymouth55
Dublin
Canada
Boston, Mass
P
D
Devonport319
Wynnum,
Queensland21
Providence RI
Wigan276
350, 352
20, 22, 61-63,
65, 117, 124,
261
Exeter319
F
Falkirk208
LONDON
Local imprints
G
Bow-Church Yard
Glasgow
27, 75, 76,
136, 203, 207212, 216, 220,
223, 289, 290,
299, 344, 345
204
Finsbury86
Gray’s Inn, Holborn 135
Great St. Andrew’s
Street316
Guildford87
Houndsditch301
L
Mile End Road
249
Moorfields
24
Leamington327
St. George’s Fields 252
Leith181
Seven Dials
Liverpool
Whitefriars247
306, 307
174-176
348
118
STREET LITERATURE
REFERENCE SOURCES
This section of the catalogue contains a
wide range of reference works & background
material relating to street literature, including
books on the history of song, many owned by
Leslie Shepard or Victor Neuburg, together
with some of Shepard’s archival material.
358. ALTICK, Richard D. The English Common
Reader: a social history of the mass reading
public 1800-1900. FIRST EDITION. Chicago:
Univ. of Chicago Press. Half title, tables. Orig.
green cloth. v.g. in sl. torn d.w.
¶A classic study of the background of 19th
century popular literature.
1957 £30
359. AMADIS, di Gaula. Two Spanish Verse Chapbooks. Romance de Amadis (c.1515-19), Juyzio
Hallado y Trobado (c.1510); a facsimile edition
with bibliographical and textual studies, by F.J.
Norton and Edward M. Wilson. Cambridge:
University Press. Half title, facsims. Orig. dark
green cloth. v.g. in sl. marked d.w.
1969 £20
AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
360. American Broadsides: sixty facsimiles dated
1680 to 1800 reproduced from originals in
the American Antiquarian Society; selected &
introduced by Georgia B. Bumgardner. Folio.
Barre, Mass.: Imprint Society. Illus., facsims.
Orig. blue cloth spine, orange cloth sides. v.g. in
slipcase with paper label.
¶Inscribed by the editor, 1984.
1971 £35
361. A List of Early American Broadsides, 1680-1800,
belonging to the Library of American Antiquarian
Society. With an introd. and notes by Nathaniel
Paine. Worcester, Mass.: Press of Charles Hamilton.
Photocopied sheets stapled at one corner. (64pp)
¶Only 100 copies of the original were printed
from the Proceedings in 1897.
[1897] £20
EARLY PRINTING IN AMERICA
362. Printing and Society in Early America; ed. by
William L. Joyce, David D. Hall, Richard D.
Brown, and John B. Hench. Worcester (Mass.):
the Society. (American Antiquarian Society
Program in the History of the Book in American
Culture.) Half title. Orig. blue cloth. Signature
of Victor Neuburg, 1983. v.g. in d.w.
¶From Conference proceedings.
1983 __________
£20
363. ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN. French
Popular Imagery:
five centuries of prints.
Hayward Gallery London. 26 March - 27 May
1974. Uxbridge: Hillingdon Press. Illus. Orig.
drab pict. wraps. v.g.
¶A well annotated exhibition catalogue.
1974 £10
ASHTON, John, 1834-1911
A pioneer in the study of popular literature,
Ashton wrote 19 books between 1882 & 1906
on chapbooks & ballads, social history,
caricature &c, but little is known of his life.
See also items 15-17, 897 & 898.
364.Chap-books of the eighteenth century; with
facsimiles, notes, and introduction. Chatto
& Windus. Front., illus. Orig. dark brown
cloth. v.g.
1882 £75
365. Chap-books of the eighteenth century; with
facsimiles, notes, and introduction. Chatto &
Windus. Front., illus. 32pp. cata. (Nov. 1881).
Orig. dark brown cloth; sl. worn & head & tail of
spine, leading f.e.p sl. chipped.
1882 £45
366.The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England:
a social sketch of the times. 5th edn. T.
Fisher Unwin. Front., illus. Orig. dark green
cloth. v.g.
¶Social changes & events that were reflected in
popular culture.
1906 £20
367. English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I.
New edn. Chatto & Windus. Initial ad. leaf, half
title, front., illus.; later 32 pp. cata. sl browned.
Orig. blue cloth, blocked in red & gilt; spine
faded. Bookplate of Preston White; ownership
inscription of Victor Neuburg.
1888 £25
GOSSIP
368. Gossip in the First Decade of Queen Victoria’s
Reign. FIRST EDITION. Hurst & Blackett. Half
title, front., illus., 4pp ads. Orig. green cloth; sl.
marked. t.e.g.
¶Interesting
and
curious
contemporary newspapers.
1903 stories
from
£20
BREAD
369. The History of Bread, from Pre-historic to Modern
Times. FIRST EDITION. R.T.S. Front., illus.,
6pp. Orig. blue dec. cloth; without leading e.p.,
otherwise v.g.
1904 £25
370. Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to Date. FIRST
EDITION. Downey & Co. Front., plates, map,
colophon leaf. Orig. lime green buckram; spine
sl. sunned, inner hinge taped, several gatherings
proud. t.e.g.
¶Correcting and updating the work by Joseph
Larwood.
1896 £35
371. Romances of Chivalry, told and illustrated in
fac-simile. FIRST EDITION. T. Fisher Unwin.
Half title, front., title in brown & black, illus.,
glossary. Orig. brown cloth, bevelled boards.
t.e.g. v.g. A nice copy.
1887£40
ASHTON, John continued
372. Romances of Chivalry .... Popular edn. T.
Fisher Unwin. Front., illus. Unopened in orig.
mustard cloth, blocked in dark brown & gilt;
dulled. College stamps.
[1887?] £30
373. Social England under the Regency. New edn.
Chatto & Windus. Initial ad. leaf, front., title in
re & black, illus. Orig. light brown pict. cloth;
sl. marked. v.g.
¶90 illus. Ownership inscr. inked through on e.p.
1899 £30
TOY THEATRE
374. Varia. Ward & Downey. Ilus. Orig. purple cloth;
spine sl. faded. A v.g. bright copy.
¶Including essays on Pepys, Richard Cromwell
&c., and the first serious study of the toy theatre.
1894 £35
WILLIAM IV
375. When William IV was King. Chapman & Hall.
Front., illus. Orig. royal blue cloth.
¶Partly a social history, including ballad material.
1896 £35
376. MANDEVILLE, Sir John.
The Voyage and
Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight ... edited,
annot. and illus. in facsimile by John Ashton.
Pickering & Chatto. Half title, illus. Orig. olive
green cloth, bevelled boards; sl. rubbing. Stamp
& bookplate of Fettes College Library.
¶An edition of the 1568 text.
Chiswick Press.
Printed at the
1887 £35
377. SKELTON, John. A Ballade of the Scottysshe
Kynge. (The earliest know printed English ballad.)
Reproduced in facsimile with an historical and
bibliographical introd. by John Ashton. (Elliot
Stock, 1882.) Detroit: Singing Tree Press. Half
title, illus. Orig. green cloth. v.g. 96pp.
¶A facsimile reprint of the 1882 edition.
1969 __________
£10
PARIS 1968, POSTERS
378. ATELIER POPULAIRE.
Posters from the
Revolution, Paris, May 1968; texts and posters
by Atelier Populaire. Folio. Dobson Books. Col.
illus. Orig. col. printed cloth wraps, with text &
illus. on e.ps. 96pp.
¶Reproductions of 150 political posters, with an
English introduction.
1969 £125
379. (ATKINSON, Thomas) Three Nights in Perthshire
with a description of the Festival of a “Scotch
Hairst Kirn” comprising legendary ballads, etc.
in a Letter from Percy Yorke Jr to J. Twiss Esq.
4to. (Reprinted.) Glasgow: printed by Aird &
Coghill. Printed imitation vellum wraps; sl.
browned. 61pp.
¶Not in BL. No. 29 of 225 copies of the reprint of
the privately printed edition of 1821.
1887 £40
380. BACON, Roger. The History of Friar Bacon:
containing the wonderful things that he did in
his life: ... William Pickering. Orig. embossed
blue cloth. v.g. 62pp.
¶This is part of W.J. Thoms’ Early English Prose
Romances, in a late remainder binding. See
also items 491 & 642.
1828 £35
ENAMEL ADVERTISING SIGNS
381. BAGLEE, Christopher & MORLEY, Andrew. Street
Jewellery: a history of enamel advertising signs.
Folio. New Cavendish Books. Illus., col. plates. Orig.
printed cloth boards with sm. enamel title onlay. v.g.
1978 £20
382. BAGLEE, Christopher & MORLEY, Andrew.
More Street Jewellery. Folio. New Cavendish
Books. Illus. (some col.). Orig. cream pict. cloth
with sm. enamel onlay. v.g.
1982 £20
GLEE COMPOSERS
383. BAPTIE, David. Sketches of the English Glee
Composers. Historical, biographical and critical,
(from about 1735-1866). William Reeves. Half
title, plates, 8pp cata.
Orig. brown cloth,
bevelled boards; sl. rubbing. Cancelled label,
perforated stamps of Columbia University
Library, pressmark on spine.
¶With a chronological list of prize glees.
[1896] £20
384. (BARING-GOULD,
Sabine)
DICKINSON,
Bickford H.C. Sabine Baring-Gould; squarson,
writer and folklorist, 1834-1924. Newton Abbot:
David & Charles. Half title, plates. Orig. brown
cloth. Near mint in d.w.
¶See also item 22.
1970 £10
NURSERY RHYMES
385. BARING-GOULD, William S. & Ceil.
The
Annotated Mother Goose: nursery rhymes old
and new, arranged and explained. 4to. New
York: Bramhall House. Half title, illus. Orig.
yellow cloth. v.g. in sl. torn d.w.
¶Illustrated from celebrated childrens’ book
illustrators and with historical woodcuts.
1962 £20
STREET CRIES
386. BEALL, Karen F. Cries and Itinerant Trades ...
A bibliography. (Kaufrufe und Strassenhandler.)
Folio. Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hanswedell & Co. Illus.,
facsims. Orig. brown buckram. v.g. in card slipcase.
¶Text in English with a German translation by
Sabine Solf. With the prospectus. One of 750 copies.
1975 £120
387. BENNETT, W.C. Proposals for and Contributions
to a Ballad History of England and the States
Sprung from Her. Hamilton, Adams & Co.
Lacking leading f.e.p. Partly unopened in orig.
blue embossed cloth, bevelled boards. v.g.
¶Reprinting Bennett’s original appeal, with
examples of his poems on historical subjects.
1868 £120
378
BALLAD HISTORY
388. BENNETT, W.C. Shall We have a National
Ballad History for the English People? An appeal
to the poets of England and America. London &
Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. Orig. blue printed
wraps; sl. dusted. 8pp.
¶BL & Cambridge only on Copac. An appeal
for a collection of ancient and modern
ballads to supply a consciousness of history
for the masses.
1866 £85
389.BIBLIOTHEQUE HISTORIQUE DE LA VILLE
DE PARIS. Imagerie Parisienne XVIe-XIXe
siècle: catalogue de l’exposition ... OctobreDécembre 1977. 4to. Paris: Imprimerie
Hôtel de Ville. Illus., some col. Orig. card
wraps. v.g.
1977 £10
390. BIRRELL & GARNETT. Popular Woodcuts,
XVIIIth & XIXth centuries.
Catalogue 35.
Birrell & Garnett. Illus. Stabbed in orig. cream
printed wraps; hinge strengthened, sl. marked
& dusted. 24pp.
¶An interesting collection sold
bibliographers J.E. Norton and
Pollard.
[1932] by the
Graham
£20
391. BLACKWELL’S.
Chapbooks.
(Blackwell’s
Catalogue A1062.) Oxford. Orig. yellow printed
wraps. With a few pencil marks by Leslie
Shepard. 35pp.
¶625 mostly British items, arranged by place
of publication.
1976 £5
392. BLAND, Desmond Sparling. Chapbooks and
Garlands in the Robert White Collection in the
Library of King’s College, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Newcastle upon Tyne. (King’s College Library
publications, no.3.) Facsims. Orig. buff printed
wraps. v.g. 32pp.
¶With a separate facsimile of one of J.
Marshall’s ‘A Garland of New Songs’ from the
same collection in Newcastle University Library
in a green printed folder, 1966.
1956 £10
ALMANACKS
393. BOSANQUET, Eustace F.
English Printed
Almanacks and Prognostications: a bibliographical
history to the year 1600. 4to. Printed for the
Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press.
(Illustrated monographs, no. XVII.) Half title,
title in red & black, plates, facsims. Orig. drab
boards, lacking cloth spine strip. Marks & stamps
& bookplate from two libraries.
1917 £35
394. BRICE, Douglas. The Folk-Carol of England.
Herbert Jenkins. Half title, music examples.
Orig. orange cloth. v.g. in sl. torn d.w.
1967 £10
COLPORTAGE
395. BROCHON, Pierre. Le Livre de Colportage en
France depuis le XVIe siècle: sa littérature ses lecteurs; préface de Georges Henri Rivière.
Paris: Librarie Gründ. Half title, plates, illus.
Orig. plain card wraps in sl. dusted illus. wraps.
¶Unnumbered copy of an edition of 1500,
reproducing early engravings & titlepages.
1954 £20
396. BROWN, Henry D. By Voice and Book: the
story of the Christian Colportage Association.
Christian Colportage Association. Half title,
front. port., illus. Orig. pinkish brown pict.
boards; spine sl. dulled.
¶BL only on Copac.
An organisation for
distributing tracts and religious literature
throughout England, founded in 1874.
Illustrated with many photographs.
[1904] £50
397. BROWN, James Walter. Carlisle in Ballad and
Story. A lecture delivered before the Carlisle
Scientific and Literary Society, on October 31st,
1911; ... Carlisle: Chas. Thurnam & Sons. Orig.
green printed wraps. (44)pp.
1912 £20
MADDEN COLLECTION
398. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. Index to
Printers represented in the Madden Collection of
Broadsides, University Library, Cambridge. (Compiled
by R.S. Thomson.) Folio. 22 leaves of duplicated
typescript in a folder, with some ms. corrections.
¶With an extensive of correspondence between
the compiler and Leslie Shepard, and also
booksellers. Pergamon Press was to have
published the index but apparently this did not
happen. Sir Frederic Madden, 1801-1873, head
of the Dept. of Manuscripts at the British Museum
Library. His papers are in the Bodleian but the
ballads came to Cambridge University Library.
[1969] £60
CAREW, Bampfylde Moore
See also item 449.
399. The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore
Carew, King of the Beggars;
containing his
Life, a Dictionary of Cant Language, and many
entertaining particulars ... Charles Courtier; Otley:
William Walker. Front. & vignette. Orig. purple
cloth, blocked in blind & gilt; spine sl. faded. v.g.
¶BL, Leeds & York Minster only on Copac.
See item 449.
1845 £40
400. The Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore-Carew,
King of the Mendicants. New and revised edn.
With an enlarged dictionary of terms used by
that fraternity, ... William Tegg. Col. front. &
sepia vignette, plate. Orig. green cloth, spine
& front board blocked in black & gilt; damp
marked. a.e.g.
¶A new edition of the Charles Courtier edition,
1845 - see above.
[1871] £25
CAREW, Bampfylde Moore continued
401. The Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore-Carew,
King of the Mendicants. ... William Tegg. Col.
front., title vignette. Orig. green cloth, front
board blocked in black, spine in black & gilt; sl.
rubbed. v.g.
¶Oxford & Cambridge only on Copac. The cloth
casing is uniform with that on the Robin Hood
Ballads, see item 152.
[c.1871] __________
£40
CATNACH, James, 1792-1841
Printer and publisher of broadsides and
chapbooks in Seven Dials in London.
See also items 64, 88, 177, 238, 255, 309, 353,
495, 496, 504-507 & 510-512.
402. JONES, Redvers. The Life of Old Jemmy
Catnach, printer. Newlyn, Penzance: The Craft
Press. Orig. green dec. wraps. (13, 1pp).
¶One of 220 copies of an extract from Charles
Hindley’s account, edited, typeset and printed
by Redvers Jones.
With correspondence
relating loosely inserted.
1965 £10
INSCRIBED TO JOHN HAYWARD
403. MUIR, Percy H. Catnachery. Folio. San
Francisco: Book Club of California. Half title,
illus. in orange, facsims. Uncut in orig. printed
boards, brown cloth spine. Plain paper wrap.
with ink title.
¶One of 325 copies inscribed by the Author
to John (Hayward), with copies of two related
letters from Leslie Shepard.
1955 £45
404. ROUD, Steve & SMITH, Paul. A Catalogue of
Songs and Song Books printed and published by
James Catnach 1832: a facsimile reprint, with
indexes & examples. Folio. West Stockwith &
Addiscombe: January Books. Illus., facsims.
Orig. blue card wraps.
¶Facsimile of the 8pp 1832 catalogue together
with typescript index.
1985 __________
£45
405. (CHENEY, John) (CHENEY, Christopher R. &
Walter G.) John Cheney and his Descendants,
printers in Banbury since 1767. 4to. Banbury:
printed for private circulation. Half title, 70
plates, fold. table & plan. Orig. brown buckram.
t.e.g. v.g. in sl. rubbed d.w.
¶Including inventories of chapbooks
reproductions of early broadsides, &c.
1936 and
£65
406. CHETHAM LIBRARY, Manchester. A Catalogue
of Proclamations, Broadsides, Ballads, and Poems.
Presented to the Chetham Library, Manchester,
by James O. Halliwell. 4to. Printed for Private
Circulation only. Limitation leaf, half title, front.,
title in red & black, illus.; some spotting caused by
frontispiece plate. Orig. purple cloth by Remnant
& Edmonds; spine faded & sl. worn.
¶The fine collection of J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
Limited to 100 copies. This bears joking
inscriptions indicating a gift from G.S. Master.
See also items 477-481.
1851 £110
407. CLINTON, Alan. Printed Ephemera: collection,
organisation and access. Clive Bingley. Half
title. Orig. black cloth; one dent. v.g. in d.w.
¶For collectors & librarians.
1981 £10
408. COCK LORREL. Cocke Lorelle’s Bote. Sm. 4to.
Edinburgh: Stanley & Blake. Orig. half sheep.
¶A reprint of a satire in verse first printed by
Wynkyn de Worde c.1510. One of 40 copies with
the introduction signed in ink by W.H. Logan,
although BL names the editor as James Maidment.
1841 £50
409. (COLLIER, John) DONALD, Diana & MAIDMENT,
Brian. Human Passions Delineated: an exploration
of the work of Tim Bobbin. (Church Hanborough,
Oxon:) Hanborough Parrot. Half title, illus. Partly
unopened in orig. illus grey boards. FINE.
¶Copy no. 73 of a handsomely produced limited
edition of 120 copies, signed by the authors; ‘Human
Passions Delineated’ first appeared in 1773.
1990 £15
410. COLLISON, Robert.
The Story of Street
Literature: forerunner of the popular press.
J.M. Dent & Sons. Half title, illus. Orig. dark
blue cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶A general introduction with quotations from
songs & ballads.
1973 £10
COLPORTAGE
411. (COOK, Russell S.) Colportage: its history, and
relation to home and foreign evangelization. With
some remarks on the wants and prospects of our
country. Edited and enlarged, by consent of the
author, from an American work, by (Margaret)
Mrs. William Fison. Wertheim, Macintosh, &
Hunt; Cheltenham: Wight & Bailey. Front.,
2 pp. ads. Orig. dark blue pict. cloth; one
gathering carelessly opened; sl. rubbing.
1859 £120
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
412. COX LANEHAM, Robert. Captain Cox, his
Ballads and Books;
or Robert Laneham’s
Letter: whearin part of the entertainment untoo
the Queens Majesty at Killingworth Castl ...
1575 is signified; ... Re-edited, with forewords
describing all the accessible books, tales, and
ballads, in Captain Cox’s list and the Complaynt
of Scotland, 1548-9 A.D. by Frederick J.
Furnivall. Printed for the Ballad Society, by
Taylor & Co. (Publications, vol. 7.) Fold maps.
Orig. half black calf; sl. rubbed.
¶Signed presentation to W.J. Lingham from Furnivall.
Captain Cox of Coventry was a collector of ballads &
romances of whom little seems to be known.
1871 £75
419
CRAWHALL, Joseph, 1821-1896
Wood engraver & publisher, based in Newcastleupon-Tyne.
See also items 277, 612, 684-686.
413. A Beuk o’ Newcassel Sangs. Collected by Joseph
Crawhall. (Joseph Crawhall, 1821-1896: a
short biography by W. Wallace.) Newcastleupon-Tyne: Harold Hill. Illus., music. Orig.
green cloth. v.g. in d.w. (sl. dusted at tail).
¶A reprint of the 1888 edition which was
limited to 120 copies.
1965 £20
WITH SHEPARD’S NOTES
414. Crawhall’s Chap-book Chaplets. Folio. Field &
Tuer, &c. Initial notice, hand col. illus. Orig.
printed boards;
a little rubbed.
Armorial
bookplate of R.L. Langdon-Down.
¶With a folder of photocopied notes on Crawhall
with transcriptions, compiled by Leslie
Shepard, and including a copy of Crawhall’s
birth certificate. Reginald Langdon-Down was
son of the physician John Langdon-Down,
famous for identifying Down Syndrome.
1883 £120
415. Crawhall’s Chap-book Chaplets. 4to. Scolar
Press. Half title, col. illus. Orig. grey printed
boards, buff buckram spine, glassine wrappers.
Near MINT.
¶A facsimile reprint of the Field & Tuer edition
of 1883, sent to Leslie Shepard for review.
1976 £45
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
416.‘Impresses Quaint.’ 4to. Newcastle upon
Tine: Mawson, Swan, & Morgan. Illus.; a
few spots. Orig. pict. boards, pink cloth spine
faded. v.g.
¶A collection of bold woodcuts. One of 300
copies, with inscription on leading f.e.p.
‘Julia Boyd with Joseph Crawhall’s kind
regards’ 1890 and later bookplate of Henry,
Duke of Gloucester.
Inserted are two of
Crawhall’s printed broadsides: ‘Coquet-side.
The wife’s remonstrance’ and ‘The Hot-trod’
from Newcastle Courant, Dec. 14, 1889 (sl.
creased & spotted). Julia Boyd edited ‘Bewick
Gleanings’. Her collection was sold by Dawson
& Son, Newcastle, in October 1882.
1889 £180
417. Olde Tayles Newlye Relayted. Enryched with all
ye ancyente embellyshmentes. 4to. Leadenhall
Press. Title in red & black, illus. Uncut in orig.
olive green pict. cloth; rubbed.
¶A collected edition of 14 out of 17 ‘Chapbook Chaplets’ and ‘Old Ffrendes’ published
separately in 8 parts by Field & Tuer in 1883.
The illustrations here are uncoloured, and each
part retains its original title and colophon.
The colophon page records that Crawhall was
responsible for some of the illustrations to this
selection of old ballads, and that publication
was finished on 14th February.
1883 £120
418. Quaint Cuts in the Chap Book Style; selected
and arranged by Theodore Menten. Tall 8vo. New
York: Dover Publications. Orig. col. wraps. v.g.
¶A selection of Crawhall’s grotesque & humorous
cuts in old style, first published 1889-90.
1974 £10
PORTFOLIO
419. Reynard ye Fox: a set of ten drawings representing
scenes from the fable; reproduced in facsimile by
S. Hurd. Folio. Wm. B. Paterson. Ten mounted
coloured plates with printed titlepage & list, in
cloth & boards portfolio; sl. dusted, lacking ties,
sm. split at leading hinge.
¶V&A libraries only on Copac. A popular fable
which also appeared in chapbook versions.
[c.1910] £250
420. BATEMAN, Lord. Ye loving ballad of Lorde
Bateman to itte’s owne tune herein sette fforth.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham. Illus.,
music. Orig. card wraps. v.g. 14 leaves.
¶A facsimile of Joseph Crawhall’s Morpeth edition
of 1860 of 15 copies. Limited to 100 copies in
boards (wraps?) and 20 copies in leather.
1968 £8
421. FELVER, Charles S.
Joseph Crawhall the
Newcastle wood engraver, 1821-1896. Newcastle
upon Tyne: Frank Graham. Illus. Orig. blue
imitation leather. v.g. in d.w.
[1972] £15
422. GRAY, William. Chorographia, or A survey of
Newcastle upon Tyne: 1649. Newcastle upon
Tyne: Frank Graham. Half title, illus., map.
Orig. grey cloth imitating leather. v.g. in d.w.
¶Reprinting of the 1883 edition, illustrated by
Joseph Crawhall, in facsimile.
1970 __________
£15
423. CROPPER, Percy J.
The Nottinghamshire
Printed Chap-Books, with notices of their
Printers and Vendors. 4to. Nottingham: Frank
Murray. Limitation leaf, plate & illus. Contemp.
quarter calf, grey cloth sides. Bookplate of
Charles H.C. Suffolk.
¶No. 35 of 60 copies for sale, signed by the
Author. This copy contains a number of pasted-in
typewritten notes supplying additional information
to what is basically a bibliography of the tracts.
Tipped in is a copy of C. Sutton’s edition of
‘Rhyming Dick and the Strolling Player’ (c.1810?);
unopened, sl. stained 8pp; and inserted an advertisement for Cropper’s reprints of Civil War tracts.
1892 £185
424. CROPPER, Percy J.
The Nottinghamshire
Printed Chap-Books, with notices of their
Printers and Vendors. 4to. Nottingham: Frank
Murray. Limitation leaf, plate & illus.; the odd
spot. Later drab boards, brown cloth spine strip.
Signature of Victor Neuburg, 1956.
¶An unnumbered copy without the inserted
chapbook, which is not found in all copies.
1892 £85
423
425. CUNNINGHAM, Robert Hays.
Amusing Prose
Chap-Books, chiefly of the last century; ed. by
Robert Hays Cunningham.
Hamilton, Adams,
& Co.; Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison. Half title.
Partly unopened in orig. blue cloth. v.g. bright copy.
¶Texts of some of the brighter narrative
chapbooks including several traditional tales.
1889 £35
426. CUNNINGHAM, Robert Hays.
Amusing Prose
Chap-Books, ... Hamilton, Adams, & Co.; Glasgow:
Thomas D. Morison. Half title. Partly unopened in
orig. blue cloth; sl. faded with wear at head of spine.
1889 £25
427. DAVIES, David W. An Enquiry into the Reading
of the Lower Classes. Tall 8vo. Pasadena: Grant
Dahlstrom. Col. front., illus. Orig. dec. boards,
beige cloth spine. (94pp.)
¶One of 250 copies published at the Castle Press.
The author who describes himself as “one of them”
discusses cheap publications and street literature
1800-1850. Sent by the TLS to Victor Neuburg.
1970 £25
428. DAVIS, Alec. Package and Print: the development
of container and label design. 4to. Faber. Half
title, col. front. & plates, illus. Orig. dark grey
cloth. v.g. in d.w.
1967 £20
DAVISON, William, of Alnwick
429. Descriptive and Historical View of Alnwick.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham. Illus.,
plans. Orig. red cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶A facsimile of the 1822 edition printed by
Davison himself
1973 £10
430. Halfpenny Chapbooks by William Davison
of Anwick; with introd. by Peter C.G. Isaac.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham. Half title,
illus. Orig. royal blue cloth. Near mint in d.w.
¶Facsimiles of 18 chapbooks, with illustrations
by Thomas Bewick.
1971 £10
DAVISON’S CARICATURES
431. ISAAC, Peter. Some Alnwick Caricatures: a
note and a handlist. Wylam: Allenholme Press.
Half title, front. & plate, col. title vignette,
tailpiece. Orig. grey printed wraps. 12pp.
¶Printed for private circulation to the Printing
Historical Society and the Rounce & Coffin Club.
1965 __________
£10
432. DENHAM, Michael Aislabie. Denham Tracts, or
A few pictures of the olden time in connection with
the North of England. Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank
Graham. Illus. Orig. mustard cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶One of 700 copies of a reprint in facsimile of
editions of up to 50 copies from 1858, of tracts
dealing with rhymes, proverbs, slogans and folklore.
1974 £15
433. DICEY, William & Cluer.
A Catalogue of
Maps, Prints, Copy-books, Drawing-books, &c.
Histories, Old Ballads, Broad-sheet and other
Patters, Garlands, &c. printed and sold by
William and Cluer Dicey, at their Warehouse,
... in Bow-Church-Yard, London. Printed in the
year M.DCC.LIV. Photocopied sheets.
¶A photocopy of an interleaved copy in the
Bodleian Library which has a few manuscript
additions.
[1754] £10
VALENTINE & ORSON
434. DICKSON, Arthur. Valentine and Orson: a
study in late medieval romance. New York:
Columbia University Press. Half title, colophon
leaf. Orig. dark green cloth.
¶Signed presentation inscription
author to Professor A.W. Reed.
1929 from
the
£35
435. DOLAN, J.R. The Yankee Pedlars of Early
America. New York: Bramhall House. Front.,
illus. Orig. brown cloth. v.g.
1964 £20
436. DORSON, Richard M. The British Folklorists:
a history. Routledge & Kegan Paul. Half title,
plates. Orig. black cloth. v.g. in d.w.
1968 £20
17TH CENTURY BROADSIDES
437. DRAPER, John W. A Century of Broadside
Elegies, being ninety English and ten
Scotch broadsides illustrating the biography
and manners of the seventeenth century.
Photographically reproduced and ed. with an
introduction and notes by John W. Draper.
Folio. Ingpen & Grant. Half title, facsims. Uncut
in orig. buff boards, orange buckram spine.
¶An unnumbered copy of 275.
1928 £85
438. DUCHARTRE, Pierre Louis.
L’Imagerie
Populaire Russe et les Livres Gravés, 16291885. Folio. Paris: Gründ. Half title, col. front.
& plates, illus. Orig. yellow cloth with green
printed onlay on front; spine sl. faded. v.g.
¶The cover onlay is of a woodcut cat clearly the
inspiration for many similar images by Edward
Bawden.
1961 £40
439. DUFFY, John.
Early Vermont Broadsides;
John Duffy, editor; introd. by Mason I. Lowance,
Jr. Folio. Hanover, N.H.: for the University of
Vermont by the University Press of New England.
Double titlepage, facsims. Orig. brown cloth.
v.g. in d.w. XX, 51pp.
1975 £15
COLPORTAGE
440. DUVAL, Gilles. Littérature de Colportage et
Imaginaire Collectif en Angleterre à l’époque des
Dicey (1720 - v.1800): thèse ... 3 vols. Folio.
(Dijon?) Illus., facsims. Duplicated pages in ring
binders. v.g.
¶A doctoral thesis from the University of Dijon
inscribed by the author to Victor Neuburg, with
Christmas card inserted.
1986 £110
441. DUVAL, Gilles. Les Mentalités Populaires à
travers les “Chapbooks” Londoniens du 18e
siècle. Thèse ... 2 vols. Folio. Pau. Illus.,
facsims. Photocopied pages in wrappers with
plastic spines.
¶A thesis for the University of Dijon, inscribed
by the Author to Victor Neuburg, with two
letters from him inserted.
1979 £85
NURSERY RHYMES
442. ECKENSTEIN, Lina. Comparative Studies in
Nursery Rhymes. Duckworth & Co. Half title;
some spotting. Orig. dark blue cloth; spine faded.
1906 £35
443. ELLIOT, Fitzwilliam. Further Essays on Border
Ballads. Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot. Half title;
the odd spot. Orig. dark blue cloth. v.g.
¶On Walter Scott’s versions of the ballads and
their authenticity, with much discussion of ‘The
Battle of Otterburn’ (Chevy Chase), etc. with texts.
1910 £30
ENGLAND
HAWKERS & PEDLARS
444. Statutes. Single Acts. An Act for Licensing
Hawkers and Pedlars, ... Folio. Printed by
Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas
Newcomb, deceas’d.
(9 & 10 William III.)
Catalogued from the text title. Disbound. Pp.
(2), 523-533.
¶In black letter.
1698 £25
CONTROLLING PEDLARS
445. Statutes. Single Acts. An Act for Granting
Certificates to Pedlars. Folio. Printed by George
Edward Eyre & William Spottiswoode. Drophead
title; spotted. Disbound. 8pp.
¶Public Acts Ch.72, 33 & 34 Vict., 9th August 1870.
1870 £15
446. Statutes. Single Acts. An Act for Granting
Certificates to Pedlars. Folio. Printed by George
Edward Eyre & William Spottiswoode. Drophead
title. Disbound. 12pp.
¶Public Acts Ch.96, 34 & 35 Vict., 21st August 1871.
1871 __________
£15
FACSIMILES
A selection of facsimiles printed as gifts or for
educational purposes. See also items 34, 52.
447. ANONYMOUS. History of the Cauld Lad of
Hilton, a legend of the Hilton Family; with an
account of the Hiltons from the remotest times,
chiefly from Surtees’ History of Durham. Also,
The Cault Lad in verse. York: T. Arthur, &c.
Orig. yellow illus. wraps. MINT. 32pp.
¶A facsimile of the c.1875 edition, published
in 1968 in an edition of 500 copies by Frank
Graham, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1968 £5
448. BOWLES & CARVER.
Catchpenny Prints:
163 popular engravings from the Eighteenth
Century, originally published by Bowles &
Carver. New York: Dover Publications. Orig. col.
printed wraps.
¶Facsimiles of images from the 1780s-90s.
1970 £10
449. CAREW, Bampfylde Moore. A Brief Relation of
the Adventures of Mr. Bamfield Moor Carew, for
more than forty years past King of the Beggars.
[Portland]: Richard Abel & Co. Illus. Orig. grey
printed wraps. (5), 24pp.
¶A facsimile of an apparently unrecorded
Aldermary Churchyard (Dicey) edition, c.1745
inscribed to Victor (Neuburg). A variant of ESTC
N43388. See item 399.
1973 £8
450. CHRISTMAS. The Christmas Box or New Year’s
Gift. Detroit: Singing Tree Press. Half title,
illus. Orig. grey printed wraps; sl. discoloured.
v.g. 80pp.
¶A facsimile reprint of the Leadenhall Press
edition of 1889-90 with introduction by S.G.
Green and attractive illustrations reprinting the
Religious Tract Society edition of 1825.
1967 £8
451. CINDERELLA. Cinderella: or, The history of the
little glass slipper. (Photolithographic facsimile.)
32mo. Alhambra, Cal.: Private Press of C.F. Braun
& Co. Illus. Orig. marbled wraps. v.g. 32pp.
¶Facsimile of the Philadelphia edition of Mathew
Carey, 1800, published by the Huntington
Library, with introduction by Carey S. Bliss.
[c.1970?] £5
452. GOTHAM. The Merry Tales of the Wise Men of
Gotham. Newly imprinted ... Portland, Oregon:
Richard Abel & Co. Title in red & black, illus.
Orig. blue stiff printed wraps. v.g.
¶A facsimile of the Aldermary Church-Yard
(Dicey) edition c.1740-1770. ESTC T300655
(Oxford only) with new introduction.
1970 £8
453. HORNER, Jack. The History of Jack Horner.
Containing the witty pranks he played, from his
youth to his riper years being pleasant for winter
evenings. Newly imprinted ... Portland, Oregon:
Richard Abel & Co. Title in red & black, illus.
Orig. drab wraps, printed in brown.
¶A facsimile of the Aldermary Church-Yard
(Dicey) verse edition. c.1750(?) ESTC N2561
(NLS, UCLA only), with a new introduction.
1969 £15
FACSIMILES continued
454. HUBBARD, Mother. The Comic Adventures of
Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog. A facsimile.
San Marino, Cal.: Henry E. Huntington Library &
Art Gallery. Illus. Orig. col. printed wraps. v.g.
¶A facsimile of the engraved edition published
by J. Harris, successor to E. Newbery in 1805,
with new introduction by Carey S. Bliss who
names the author as Sarah Catherine Martin.
1962 £5
455. HUESTIS & COZANS, Publishers. Six Children’s
Books of the 1850’s. Scotia, N.Y.: Americana
Review. Illus. Six 8pp stabbed chapbooks in a
buff illus. folder; very sl. browning.
¶Facsimile reprints of the originals published
by Huestis & Cozans, printed by D. Fanshaw
in New York. With a mailing card from the
publisher Myron Johnson to Leslie Shepard,
two carbon copies of TL from Shepard and a
facsimile compilation ‘American Mail Order
Fashions, 1880-1900’, published by American
Review in 1961. The books are: Old Mother
Mitten and her Funny Kitten; The Picture
Book; The Funny Book; The Two Sisters;
Story of the Little Drummer; The Adventures
of Mr. Tom Plump.
[1964] £15
456. JACK, the Giant Killer. The History of Jack
and the Giants. Pt. II. (The Second Part of Jack
and the Giants.) Newly imprinted ... Portland,
Oregon: Richard Abel & Co. Illus. Orig. stiff
wraps, printed in brown. v.g.
¶A facsimile of the edition printed in Shrewsbury by J. Cotton, & J.Eddowes (c.1760), with
a new introduction. The original not in ESTC.
1971 £10
A PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS
457. PIPER, Peter. Peter Piper’s Practical Principles
of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation. San Marino,
Cal.: Huntington Library. Col. illus. Orig. orange
printed card wraps.
¶A facsimile of the edition published in Philadelphia by Willard Johnson in 1836, with
introduction by Carey S. Bliss.
[c.1970?] £5
458. SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. The
History of the Seven Champions of Christendom.
Newly imprinted ... Portland, Oregon: Richard
Abel & Co. Title in red & black. Orig. red brown
printed wraps. v.g.
¶A facsimile of the edition published in Shrewsbury by J. Cotton & J. Eddowes, c.1760, with
new introduction. The original not in ESTC.
1967 £10
459. SOLDIER. The Souldiers Catechisme: composed
for the Parliaments Army: ... Printed for J.
Wright in the Old-Baily, 1644. Cresset Press.
Orig. buff wraps, paper label on front.
¶A facsimile reprint of the work by R. Ram.
[1944?] £15
INTRODUCTION BY LESLIE SHEPARD
460. THEN LTD. The News in Verse: Dreadful Cries: a
set of six 19th-century broadside ballads of appalling
murders and other wretched crimes, printed in
faithful facsimile. Illus. 8 leaves in a grey folder.
¶Leslie Shepard wrote the introduction: ‘The
Story of Broadside Ballads’. [In 1972, I was
working for Peter Way Ltd. in James Street,
Covent Garden. ‘Then’ was a short-lived
periodical published by a subsidiary company and this publication led to my first contact with
Leslie Shepard. Brian Lake.]
1972 __________
£12
YORKSHIRE
461. FEDERER, Charles Antoine. Yorkshire Chapbooks. Edited by Charles A. Federer. First series.
Elliot Stock. Half title, illus. Uncut in half vellum,
black leather label. 1902 presentation inscription.
¶No more published. The first series comprises
Thomas Gent’s tracts on legendary subjects,
with a memoir.
1889 £35
462. FERGUSON, Richard Saul. On the Collection
of Chap-Books in the Bibliotheca Jacksoniana,
in Tullie House, Carlisle, with some remarks on
the history of printing in Carlisle, Whitehaven,
Penrith, and other North Country towns. [Kendal:
T. Wilson?] Front. sl. browned, text title only.
Fairly recent brown cloth, gilt paper label. v.g.
¶A paper delivered at Windermere and on the Isle
of Man in 1894 and published in the Transactions
of
the
Cumberland
and
Westmoreland
Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 1897.
This edition has no imprint or colophon.
[1897] £35
BATH PENNY READINGS
463. FLEMING, James, Minister of All Saints’
Chapel, Bath. Bath Penny Readings: their
origin and progress. Simpkin, Marshall. Orig.
buff printed wraps. v.g. 31pp.
¶Readings were established following the
failure of lectures to draw popular audiences.
Poems read are listed.
1862 £65
464. FORD, Worthington C. The Isaiah Thomas Collection of Ballads. Reprinted from the Proceedings of
the American Antiquarian Society for April, 1923.
Worcester, Mass.: the Society. In orig. green
printed wraps in blue boards, grey cloth spine
untitled. Signature of Victor Neuburg, 1951. 81pp.
¶A catalogue of ballads presented to the Society
in 1814.
1924 £50
465. (FOX-STRANGWAYS, Arthur Henry) Folk Song
and Dance. From the ‘Times Literary Supplement’
with ... A list of some English Folk Songs. Folk
Press. Ad. leaf. Stabbed in grey printed wraps.
v.g. 20pp.
¶WITH: an ‘Advance Copy - incomplete’ of the
first 14pp without wraps. BL only on Copac.
(1925) £25
466. FRASER, Claud Lovat. Old Broadside Ballads;
reproduced from original examples in facsimile,
with an introductory note by C. Lovat Fraser.
4to. Poetry Bookshop. (The Chapbook: a monthly
miscellany, no. 15, Sept. 1920.) Illus., ads. Orig.
beige wraps with col. illus. by Lovat Fraser. v.g.
24, ivpp.
¶See also items 253, 254, 603 & 614.
1920 £20
467. GAILEY, Allan. Christmas Rhymers and
Mummers in Ireland. Obstock, Leics.: Guizer
Press. Col. illus., plates. Stabbed in orig. orange
printed wraps. 44pp.
¶With the text of several plays.
1968 £5
POSTERS
468. GALLO, Max. The Poster in History; with an
essay on the development of poster art by Carlo
Arturo Quintavalle; translated by Alfred and
Bruni Mayor. (Abridged edn.) Feltham: Hamlyn.
Col. front. & illus. (some col.). Orig. col. wraps.
¶1789-1970.
1975 £10
469. GERRING, Charles. Notes on Printers and
Booksellers, with a chapter on Chap Books.
Simpkin Marshall; Nottingham: Frank Murray.
Front., plates, subscribers’ list. Uncut in orig.
grey boards; hinges splitting, spine sunned,
paper labels. A good-sound copy.
¶With presentation inscription to Victor Neuburg
from Antony d’Offay, 1959.
1900 £40
470. GLASGOW
BOOKSELLERS.
John Cheap
the Chapman’s Library:
the Scottish Chap
Literature of last century classified. Illustrated
with the genuine quaint woodcuts. Glasgow:
Robert Lindsay. Orig. purple cloth; sl. affected
by damp, paper label sl. chipped.
¶Reprinting a selection of twelve of the
Glasgow Booksellers’ later chapbooks without
numbering, the parts signed with letters. Titles
are: Odds and Ends (see also item 123); The
Comical Sayings of Paddy from Cork (21);
Fun upon fun (34); John Falkirk’s Cariches;
Grinning made easy; The Scotch Haggis (37);
The new pictorial Bible; The History of Moses
(151); The Life and Death of Judas Iscariot
(129); The History of Abraham (42); The
History of Joseph (41); The Wife of Beith (49)
(see also item 208). See also item 555.
1877 £45
471. GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART. Come All Ye: an
exhibition of broadsides, broadsheets, chapbooks
and street literature of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, Glasgow School of Art 17th28th February 1975. 4to. (Glasgow): Foulis Archive
Press. Plates, illus. Card wraps with d.w. v.g.
¶Copy no. 241 of 650, with four Foulis
Archive Press and two other specially issued
broadsides, plus an ALS from John Tomlinson
at the Foulis Archive Press to Leslie Shepard,
15 October (1975).
1975 £20
472. GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART. Come All Ye: an
exhibition of broadsides, broadsheets, chapbooks
and street literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Glasgow School of Art 17th-28th
February 1975. 4to. (Glasgow): Foulis Archive
Press. Plates, illus. Card wraps with d.w. v.g.
¶Copy no. 235 of 650, with two Foulis Archive
Press leaflets and one special broadside.
1975 £12
FOLKLORE AS A SCIENCE
473. GOMME, George Laurence. Folklore as an
Historical Science. FIRST EDITION. Methuen &
Co. (The antiquary’s books.) Half title, front. &
plates, 4pp ads & 47pp cata. (Oct. 1909). Orig.
red cloth; spine sl. dulled, otherwise v.g.
¶Signed by Victor Neuburg, 1969.
1908 £45
474. (GRAY, William) DORMER, Ernest W. Gray
of Reading: a sixteenth-century controversialist
and ballad-writer. 4to. Reading: printed &
published by Bradley & Son. Uncut in grey
cloth; affected by damp at fore-edges.
1923 £20
475. GRETTON, Thomas. Murders and Moralities:
English catchpenny prints, 1800-1860. British
Museum
Publications.
(Colonnade
book.)
Facsims. Orig. illus. card wraps.
1980 £10
476. GUMMERE, Francis B. The Popular Ballad.
(Reprinted.) New York: Dover Publications. Half
title, 4pp ads + 16pp cata. Orig. illus. card
wraps; spine faded.
¶An unaltered reprint of the classic work first
published in 1907.
1959 £10
HALLIWELL, James Orchard
See also items 136 & 406.
FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
477. A Catalogue of Chap-Books, Garlands, and
Popular Histories, in the possession of James
Orchard Halliwell. Printed for private circulation.
Front. & illus.; text marked. Orig. drab printed
wraps; spine sl. chipped with ink title label.
¶BL & Guildhall only on Copac. 241 items.
1849 £65
478. Descriptive Notices of Popular English Histories.
Printed for the Percy Society, by Richards. (No.
LXXIX.) WITH: Early English Miscellanies, in
prose and verse, selected from an unedited
manuscript of the 15th century. Edited by J.O.
Halliwell. Printed for the Warton Club. Half
title. 96pp. 1855. 2 vols in 1 in orange binder’s
cloth; sl. dulled. Victor Neuburg’s copy.
¶BL & Guildhall only on Copac.
1848/1855 £60
479. Descriptive Notices of Popular English Histories.
... (No. LXXIX.) Illus. Orig. buff printed wraps.
v.g. 96pp.
1848 £40
HALLIWELL, James Orchard continued
480. Notices of Fugitive Tracts, and Chap-Books
printed at Aldermary Churchyard, Bow
Churchyard, etc. Printed for the Percy Society,
by Richards. (No. LXXXIII.) Illus. Orig. drab
wraps; sl. dusted, spine sl. chipped.
¶BL & Guildhall only on Copac.
1849 £45
481. DELONEY, Thomas. Three Old Ballads on the
Overthrow of the Spanish Armada, ... now first
reprinted from black-letter copies, supposed to
be unique. Edited by J.O. Halliwell. Sm. 4to.
Printed for the Editor. Half title. Orig. brown
boards, brown roan spine; sl. rubbing. Armorial
bookplate of John Pershaw(?)
¶One of 30 copies only, printed at the Chiswick
Press. Texts of the 1588 edition.
1860 __________
£45
482. HAND, John. Irish Street Ballads. Blackrock:
Carraig Books. (Carraig chapbooks, 5.) Illus.
Orig. green printed wraps. 28pp.
¶A facsimile reprint of the c.1873 original with
introduction by Thomas Wall.
1976 £6
483. HARLAND,
John
&
WILKINSON,
T.T.
Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports,
&c. Containing a rare tract on the Lancashire
Witches. FIRST EDITION. George Routledge &
Sons; Manchester: L.C. Gent. Front. port. of
Harland causing offsetting. Orig. dec. maroon
cloth, bevelled boards; faded & sl. rubbed.
¶Including a text of the Peace-Egg play (see
item 598) and of ‘The Dragon of Wantley’.
1873 £35
484. HARRY, William. The Address of William Harry,
printer, bookbinder, bookseller, stationer and
musicseller: a facsimile reprint; introduced by
Leslie Shepard. West Stockwith & Addiscombe:
January Books. Fold. facsim. Orig. blue printed
card wraps. 6pp + facsim.
¶The rhymed address probably dates from the 1790s.
1986 £10
LITERARY TASTE IN AMERICA
485. HART, James D. The Popular Book: a history
of America’s literary taste. New York: Oxford
University Press. Half title, plates, chronol. list.
Orig. blue cloth. v.g. in rubbed d.w.
¶Mostly literary works but with sale statistics
and some discussion of popular literature.
1950 £30
A.A. MILNE INTRODUCTION
486. HARTLAND, Edwin Sidney. The Science of
Fairy Tales: an inquiry into fairy mythology;
with an introd. by A.A. Milne.
(2nd edn.)
Methuen & Co. Half title, 8pp cata. Orig. blue
cloth; spine sl. dulled.
¶Studies of fairy themes underlying some of the
ballads and chapbook stories.
1925 £20
487. HARVEY,
William.
Scottish
Chapbook
Literature. Paisley: Alexander Gardner. Illus.
Orig. grey boards, cream buckram spine, paper
label. v.g.
1903 £30
WITH ALS
488. HARVEY,
William.
Scottish
Chapbook
Literature. Paisley: Alexander Gardner. Illus.
Orig. grey boards, cream buckram spine;
paper label sl. chipped & rubbed. v.g. Victor
Neuburg’s copy.
¶With a long ALS from Harvey on headed paper
of ‘The People’s Journal’, Dundee April 26,
1905 to Mr Reid about printing and antiquarian
matters, partly laid down on leading f.e.p.
1903 £35
489. HAZLITT, W. Carew. Tales and Legends of
National Origin or Widely Current in England
from Early Times; with critical introductions by
W. Carew Hazlitt. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Sl.
browning, some gatherings proud. Orig. maroon
cloth; spine sl. faded.
¶Legends and tales often found in chapbook
form including a long section on Robin Hood.
1899 £25
490. HELM, Alex. The Chapbook Mummers’ Plays: a
study of the printed versions of the North-West
of England. Ibstock, Leics.: Guizer Press. Illus.
Stabbed in orig. red printed wraps. 56pp.
¶Including a full listing & some texts.
1969 £10
491. HELYAS, Knight of the Swan. The History of
Helyas, Knight of the Swan. From the edition
printed by Copland. William Pickering. Orig.
embossed blue cloth. v.g.
¶Elias, Chevalier au Cygne is a parallel story
to that of Lohengrin. This is part of W.J.
Thoms’ Early English Prose Romances, in
probably a late remainder binding. See also
items 380 & 642.
1827 £35
492. HENRYSON, Robert. Ane very excellent and
delectabill Scottis ballat intitulit Robene and
McKyne, ... (Dundee: John R. Birkbeck.) Stabbed
as issued; sl. discoloured.
¶One of 75 copies in Gothic type with
presentation inscription from the printer to
David Low, and given by him to Leslie Shepard.
Henryson lived c.1430-1506.
1970 £20
493. HEXHAM. A Songe made in Edwarde the
Fourthe his tyme of ye Battele of Hexhamme, in
Northomberlonde: anno m.cccc.lxiv. Newcastleupon-Tyne: M.A. Richardson, &c. Printed in red
& black. Orig. buff printed wraps; split at spine,
dusted. (20pp.)
¶A black letter text with scholarly notes,
described by BL as ‘apparently a modern
fabrication’.
[1849] £25
497
HINDLEY, Charles, c.1821-1893
A Brighton bookseller and antiquarian, whose
interest in and publication of broadside
ballads inspired much later research.
See also item 402.
494. A Collection of Biographical and other Material
relating to Hindley and his family, made by
Leslie Shepard. One folder.
¶Including 2 ALsS from Hindley, 1879 & 1881,
photocopies of original documents relating to family
history, photographs and negatives, an interior
design by Hindley & Wilkinson with examples of
their work and final sale catalogue, 1910, printed
extracts, typescript and proofs of Shepard’s
introduction to his new edition of ‘Curiosities of
Street Literature’. It appears that Shepard was
considering writing Hindley’s biography.
[c.1870-1977] £200
THICK PAPER COPY
495. ‘The Catnach Press’. A collection of the books and
woodcuts of James Catnach, late of Seven Dials,
printer. FIRST EDITION. Reeves & Turner. Half
title, title in red & black, illus. Orig. publishers’
half purple roan; sl. rubbing. v.g.
¶Compiled by Hindley, including Hindley’s Life
of ‘Old Jemmy Catnach’. No. 70 of 75 thick
paper copies.
[1869] £120
FINE PAPER COPY
496. ‘The Catnach Press’. A collection of the books
... FIRST EDITION. Reeves & Turner. Half title,
title in red & plack, illus. Orig. publishers’ half
purple roan; rubbed.
¶No. 119 of 175 fine paper copies.
[1869] £80
LITERARY RARITIES
497. Three Readable Reprints of Literary Rarities.
Edited by Charles Hindley. 4to. Reeves &
Turner. Nos. I & III in red & black. Contemp.
quarter green roan; spine chipped at head &
tail, boards sl. knocked at corners. Handsome
bookplate of Chas. Ino Shoppee.
¶1.How the goode wif taught hir daughter.
Parallel facsimile verse text and modern
version. One of 50 copies.
2. A dialogue betwene the commune secretary
and jalowsye touchynge the unstablenesse
of harlottes. Half title, title dated 1871.
Parallel facsimile text and modern version
& facsimile letter and introduction by John
Payne Collier. One of 50 copies. 16pp.
3.A trewe et faythfull hystorie of the
redoubtable
Prynce
Radapanthus.
Facsimile text followed by modern version,
with the revelation that the supposed
unique copy of a work printed by Wynkyn
de Worde is a hoax perpetrated by John
Adey Repton in 1820.
The collection is not recorded on Copac. ‘How the
Goode Wif ...’ is at Guildhall & Birmingham; ‘a
Dialogue ...’ is at Oxford, Birmingham & Society
of Antiquaries; ‘A Trewer Faythfull Historie ...’
is at Birmingham, TCD & Society of Antiquaries.
[c.1870?] £450
STREET LITERATURE
498. Curiosities of Street Literature:
comprising
‘Cock’s’, or ‘Catchpennies’, a large and curious
assortment of street-drolleries, squibs, histories,
comic tales in prose and verse, ... FIRST EDITION.
4to. Reeves & Turner. Half title torn, front., illus,
one col., facsims. Orig. publisher’s half black
roan interleaved with blank pages from which
items have been removed, inner hinges splitting.
Armorial bookplate of George Faudel Phillips.
¶177 of 456 copies. Facsimiles & type facsimiles.
1871 £75
499. Curiosities of Street Literature: with a new
introduction by Leslie Shepard. 2 vols. 4to. The
Broadsheet King. Illus., facsims., one col. Orig.
brown cloth. v.g.
¶The second volume contains Division III.
A collection of ballads on a subject.
1966 £25
SHEPARD’S SAMPLES
500. Curiosities of Street Literature; with a new
introd. by Leslie Shepard. Folio. Broadsheet
King. Illus. Leaves on coloured paper in black
card wraps with spiral binding.
¶Shepard’s ‘filleted’ examples of his edition
of Hindley’s work with portrait, foreword and
selected pages. He made up 50 of these copies
for his friends: this example unassigned.
1966 £10
501. Curiosities of Street Literature; new foreword
by Michael Hughes. 4to. Welwyn Garden City:
Seven Dials Press. Half title, illus., facsims.
Orig. brown cloth. v.g. in sl. torn d.w.
¶No reference is made to Leslie Shepard’s edition.
1969 £20
SAMPLE PAGES WITH LETTER
502. Curiosities of Street Literature. ... Fine toned
demy 4to edition. Only two hundred and fifty
copies printed. 4to. (Reeves & Turner.) Title
printed in blue, loose leaves and pages, some on
coloured paper. (18 pp.)
¶Sample leaves from Hindley’s massive
compilation with a letter in his hand signed
‘The Compiler’ from Brighton, Decr 4th 1871
to an unknown male correspondent, stating
that he has no review copies, as they are being
bound, but he encloses the prefaces to the
Divisions, (with some contents leaves and text
examples) from which he can devise an article,
a procedure adopted by the City Press. 456
copies in all were printed.
[1871] £45
ADVERTISEMENT
503. (Curiosities of Street Literature.) Just published
by Messrs. Reeves & Turner. Curiosities of
Street Literature, ... guaranteed only 456 copies
printed. (Reeves & Turner.) Illus. Stabbed as
issued, one old fold. (4), 8, (4)pp.
¶Not recorded on Copac. A list of the different
issues, reprinting the Contents list and
reproducing some of the illustrations, most from
the Seven Dials Press section.
[1871?] £60
HINDLEY, Charles continued
label worn. Signature of Victor Neuburg, 1949.
EXTRA ILLUSTRATED
WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF HINDLEY
504. The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwickupon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London.
Charles Hindley, the younger. Half title, front. &
illus., occasionally coloured. Contemp. half dark
green roan; worn, hinges splitting, but sound.
¶With 16 extra illustrations bound in including
a photograph of Hindley, SIGNED beneath,
as front, short slipsongs & song sheets
and reproductions of engravings by George
Cruikshank of London street scenes.
1886 £85
505. The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwickupon-Tweed, ... Charles Hindley. Half title
& illus. with occasional colour. Uncut in orig.
beige buckram, pink printed labels, that on spine
faded. v.g. in sl. torn d.w.
1887 £65
506. The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwickupon-Tweed, ... Charles Hindley. Half title &
illus. with occasional colour. Uncut in orig.
beige buckram, pink printed labels, that on
spine faded & chipped.
1887 £50
507. The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwickupon-Tweed, ... (Reissued.) Detroit: Singing Tree
Press. Illus. Orig. yellow cloth; sl. marked. v.g.
¶A photographic reprint of the 1878 Reeves & Turner
edition. Presumably issued by Leslie Shepard.
1969 £20
CRIES OF LONDON
508. The History of the Cries of London. Ancient
and Modern. 2nd edn. Greatly enlarged and
carefully revised. Charles Hindley (the Younger).
Front., illus. Uncut in orig. buff buckram, pink
printed paper labels; spine dulled, spine label
worn. Bookplate & signature of M.I. Ingram.
¶Some illustrations by the Bewicks. Maude Ingram,
later Crofts, 1889-1965, solicitor. The first woman
to be articled to a solicitor in 1919, she promoted
women’s entry into the legal profession.
[1884] £70
CHEAP JACK
509. The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, by One
of the Fraternity; edited by Charles Hindley. New
edn. Chatto & Windus. (Wanderer’s library.)
Half title. Orig. maroon cloth; spine sl. dulled.
Bookplate of LSD.
¶As near an accurate transcription as possible
of the manuscript of William Green of Brighton,
first published in 1876. ‘Cheap Jack’: one who
sells cheap & shoddy goods.
1881 £75
510. The Life and Times of James Catnach, (late of
Seven Dials), ballad monger. Reeves & Turner.
Half title (hand col.), illus., 12pp cata. (1878).
Orig. red brown cloth; inner hinge splitting, paper
¶Prelims. hand-coloured.
1878 £65
LIFE OF CATNACH
511. The Life and Times of James Catnach, ... Reeves
& Turner. Half title (hand col.), illus., 12pp cata.
(1878). Orig. dark green cloth, paper label browned
& chipped, cutting laid down on leading f.e.p.
¶Spine label says 500 copies printed. Prelims.
hand-coloured.
1878 £60
512. The Life and Times of James Catnach ...
(Reissued.) Detroit: Singing Tree Press. Illus.
(230 woodcuts of which 42 are by Bewick). Orig.
yellow pict. cloth. v.g.
¶A photographic reprint of the 1878 Reeves &
Turner edition. Presumably issued by Leslie
Shepard.
1968 £20
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
513. Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings; including the
origin of signs, and reminiscences connected
with taverns, coffee-houses, clubs, etc. etc.
FIRST EDITION. Tinsley Bros. Half title, front.,
illus. Orig. green cloth, blocked in black & gilt;
inner hinges strengthened.
¶A revised version of ‘Tavern Anecdotes and
Reminiscences’ of 1825.
With two press
cuttings on leading f.e.p. Inscribed on half title:
‘To Mrs. Smith: with the respectful compliments
of the Editor: - (Charles Hindley) Brighton
August 6.1877’.
1875 £85
514. Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings; ... FIRST EDITION.
Tinsley Bros. Half title, front., illus. Orig. green
cloth, blocked in black & gilt; spine sl. rubbed.
Victor Neuburg’s copy.
1875 £50
515. Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings; ... FIRST EDITION.
Tinsley Bros. Front., illus. Sl. cut down in half
dark blue roan, hinges splitting. Owner’s stamps.
1875 £30
516. Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings; ... New edn.
Chatto & Windus. (Wanderer’s library.) Half
title, illus., 32pp cata. (April, 1893). Orig. greygreen dec. cloth; spine sl. rubbed & dulled.
1881 £40
TOM & JERRY
517. The True History of Tom and Jerry; or, The
day and night scenes of Life in London from the
start to the finish! With a key to the persons
and places, ... 4to. Reeves & Turner. Half title,
illus., glossary, 28pp cata. Orig. blue boards,
cream paper pict. spine; spine sl. cracked &
chipped at head. Armorial bookplate of Thomas
Sanderson. A good copy.
¶The large paper edition limited to 250 copies,
uncut, of this companion to Pierce Egan’s work,
Life in London, first published in 1821.
[1888] £85
HINDLEY, Charles continued
518. The True History of Tom and Jerry; ... Charles
Hindley. Front., illus. Orig. blue paper boards, cream
printed paper spine; browned with sl. rubbing.
¶With the text of the play based on Pierce
Egan’s work by W.T. Moncrieff illustrated and
with extra information. First published in 1888.
[1892] £40
HINDLEY’S COPY?
519. (HINDLEY, Charles, ed.) HIGHMORE, Anthony.
A Ramble on the Coast of Sussex, (1782). 4to.
Reeves & Turner. Half title, grangerised. Later
half dark blue morocco. 50pp.
¶The owner has added a copy of the Copyright
receipt slip for Hindley for the work at the
British Museum Library 1876 and the claim
slip and receipt for the other four copyright
copies, a photograph of Hindley with his
signature 1873 with a loosely inserted modern
enlargement, prints and printed illustrations of
Sussex scenes including one watercolour, and
one mounted press cutting. The copyright slip
suggests this was Hindley’s copy.
1873 £200
520. (HINDLEY, Charles, ed.)
HIGHMORE,
Anthony. A Ramble on the Coast of Sussex,
(1782). Reeves & Turner. Half title. Orig. green
printed card wraps, red cloth spine. Owner’s
stamp. 50pp.
¶The wrappers bear the imprint of W.J. Smith
41-43 North Street, Brighton.
1873 __________
£40
521. HODGART, Matthew J.C. The Ballads. 2nd
impression. Hutchinson’s University Library.
(Vol. 38.) Half title, music. Orig. grey cloth, in
sl. torn d.w.
1950 £10
522. HOLMBOE, Vagn. Danish Street Cries: a
study of their musical structure and a complete
edition of tunes with words collected before
1960. (København): Forlaget Kragen Aps. (Acta
Ethnomusicologica Danica, 5.) Half title, illus.,
music. Orig. card wraps. v.g.
1988 £10
HOOD, Robin
See also items 29, 150 -3, 401 & 489.
523. The Life and Exploits of Robin Hood: and Robin
Hood’s Garland. 32mo. Halifax: Milner &
Sowerby. (No. 29.) Half title, front., added engr.
title, ads. on e.ps. Orig. purple-brown embossed
cloth; spine sl. faded.
1858 £35
524. The Life and Exploits of Robin Hood:
...
Halifax: Milner & Sowerby. (No. 29.) Half title,
front., engr. title ‘Life & Ballads of Robin Hood’,
glossary; some browning & staining. Ads. on
e.ps. Orig. green cloth; rubbed. A poor copy.
¶Owner’s signature of Williams, Brecon Nov. 15 1863.
1859 £20
525. The Life and Exploits of Robin Hood, ... 32mo.
Milner & Sowerby. (The Cottage Library. No. 29.)
Half title, front. & added engr. title. Orig. red
cloth; spine sl. dulled. Armorial bookplate. A
good clean copy.
1867 £25
__________
526. (HUGHES, Thomas)
Street Ballads.
IN:
The National Review. No. XXVI. Oct. 1861.
pp.397-419. Chapman & Hall. 24 pp. ads.
Orig. buff printed wraps; dusted, with sm.
splits to hinges.
¶With quotations. The periodical issue also
contains articles on ‘Piers Plowman’, Language,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, &c.
1861 £25
527. HUGILL, Stan. Shanties and Sailors’ Songs,
with drawings by the Author. (2nd printing.)
New York, Washington: Praeger Publishers.
Half title, illus., music. Orig. dark blue cloth.
v.g. in d.w.
¶120pp study & 112pp songs, with bibliography.
1969 £20
LABELS
528. HUMBERT, Claude.
Label Design:
the
evolution, design and function of labels from the
earliest times to the present day. 4to. Thames
& Hudson. Half title, illus., rubricated. Orig.
brown cloth. v.g. in d.w. with imprint of WatsonGuptill, New York.
¶Worldwide examples.
1972 £40
STREET LORE OF READING
529. HUMPHREYS, A. L. The Streets and Street
Lore of Reading. Privately printed. Uncut
in orig. boards, covered in col. dec. paper
with paper label on front boards; spine strip
chipped. 40pp.
¶The text of a lecture delivered at Mitford Hall,
Three Mile Cross, 2nd March 1926.
[1926] £20
530. ISAAC, Peter & MCKAY, Barry. Images &
Texts: their production and distribution in the
18th and 19th Centuries; ed. by Peter Isaac
and Barry McKay.
Winchester:
St. Paul’s
Bibliographies. (Print networks.) Front., illus.
Orig. glazed pict. boards. v.g.
¶Papers concerned largely with local and
popular printing given at the annual seminars
on the British Book Trade.
1997 £10
531. JAMES, Louis. Print and the People, 18191851; edited, with an introd. and commentary,
by Louis James. Allen Lane. Double titlepage,
illus., bibliog. Orig. drab cloth; sl. marked in sl.
torn d.w. Signed by Victor Neuburg.
¶An anthology of all types of popular printing
and literature.
1976 £15
519
532. JAMES, Louis. English Popular Literature, 18191851; edited, with an introd. and commentary, by
Louis James. 4to. New York: Columbia Univ. Press.
Illus., two column text. Orig. blue cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶A survey and anthology, including extracts
from penny dreadfuls.
1976 £15
EDINBURGH CRIES
533. JAMIESON, James H. The Edinburgh Street
Traders and Their Cries. (Edinburgh.) Plates, illus.
Orig. grey wraps; a little marked. Pp.177-223.
¶Vol. II of the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club,
July 1910.
1910 £25
FOREWORD BY LESLIE SHEPARD
534. JOHNSON, C.R., Rare Book Collections.
Street Literature: a collection of 944 whiteletter
broadside ballads etc. Foreword by Leslie
Shepard. Folio. Hale, Altrincham. Illus., reproduced from typescript. White printed wraps,
black cloth spine strip.
¶Three albums, one formerly belonging to
Sabine Baring Gould, with facsims, and indices
of titles, first lines and printers.
1980 £20
535. JOHNSON, Richard. The Seven Champions of
Christendom, ... New and complete edn. William
Tegg. Front. Orig. blue cloth, blocked in black
& gilt; faded & sl. rubbed, lacking leading f.e.p.
1867 £15
536. JONES, Trevor. Street Literature in Birmingham: a history of broadside and chapbook. 4to.
Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic Book Publishing &
Production Course. Half title, plates, facsims.
Orig. cloth boards; sl. bowed.
¶Signed by the Author, No. 40.
1970 £40
KING ARTHUR
537. JONES, William Lewis. King Arthur in History
and Legend. Reprinted. Cambridge: Univ. Press.
(Cambridge manuals of science and literature.)
Half title. Orig. pink printed cloth. v.g.
¶A short guide first published in 1911.
1933 £12
538. KER, W.P. On the Danish Ballads. An offprint
of pp.385-401 from The Scottish Historical
Review, vol. V. no. 20, July 1908. Orig. green
printed wraps; sl. creased at edges.
¶A presentation copy from Ker to J.W. Hales,
signed with initials.
1908 £15
TYNESIDE STREET CRIES
539. KING, Robert.
Old Tyneside Street Cries;
collected by Robert King, brought to one standard
by J.G. Jewels, and drawn by F. Austin Child. Sm.
4to. Tynemouth: printed by Robert King at the
Priory Press. Limitation & colophon leaves, half
title, music. Orig. blue buckram spine, marbled
boards; front board stained, paper label. 69pp.
¶One of 100 ordinary copies;
descriptive text and notes.
with useful
1924 £35
MINING
540. KORSON, George. Minstrels of the Mine Patch:
songs and stories of the anthracite industry;
foreword by Archie Green.
(3rd printing.)
Hatboro, Pennsylvania:
Folklore Associates.
Front., some music. Orig. grey cloth. v.g.
¶A reprint of the first edition of 1938.
1964 £15
THE COMIC STRIP
541. KUNZLE, David.
The Early Comic Strip:
narrative strips and picture stories in the
European Broadsheet from c.1450 to 1825.
Folio. Berkeley: University of California Press.
(History of the comic strip, vol. I.) Half title, col.
front., illus., facsims. Orig. yellow buckram. v.g.
in d.w. with small repair.
¶c.1450-1826.
1973 £75
542. KUZMIN, N. Ruskii Lubok. Moskva: Pravda.
Col. illus. In col. wraps, stabbed as issued. 36pp.
¶Reduced facsimiles with explanatory text.
‘Lubki’ - broadsheets, often hand-coloured, sold
by pedlars travelling from village to village.
1970 £8
LARWOOD, Jacob & HOTTEN, John Camden
WITH ALS
543. The History of Signboards, from the earliest
times to the present day. FIRST EDITION. John
Camden Hotten. Initial ad. leaf, col. front., XIX
plates, 2pp ads. + 12pp cata. Orig. maroon cloth
by W. Bone & Son; neatly rebacked.
¶With 2pp ALS from Hotten to Dr Charles
Mackay laid on to e.ps, with presentation
inscription, July 12, 1866, promoting the book
and mentioning the ballad ‘Eleanor Rummyng’.
Charles Mackay the poet and journalist.
1866 £180
WITH ALS
544. The History of Signboards, ... Orig. maroon
cloth by W. Bone & Son; inner hinges repaired.
Armorial bookplate of John Gretton.
¶With 1p ALS from Hotten to Geo. A. Haydon
22 Nov. 1866, thanking him for his note about
‘The Half Brick’.
1866 £110
545. The History of Signboards, ... Orig. maroon
cloth by W. Bone & Son; following inner hinges
repaired. Early presentation inscription and
signature of Victor Neuburg, 1952.
1866 £65
546. The History of Signboards, ... 2nd edn. John
Camden Hotten. Initial ad. leaf, col. front. & plates,
2pp ads. + 12pp cata. Orig. maroon cloth by W.
Bone & Son, bearing the edition note; sl. rubbing.
¶With slip advertising a large paper edition of ‘a
very few copies’.
1866 £70
544
LARWOOD, Jacob & HOTTEN, John Camden
continued
547. The History of Signboards, ... 9th edn. Chatto &
Windus. Col. front. & plates, 32pp cata. (April 1885).
Orig. maroon cloth (by W. Bone & Son); spine faded,
sl. damp marked, inner hinges sl. cracking.
1884 £45
548. The History of Signboards, ... 11th edn. Chatto
& Windus. Front. not col., plates; last gathering
browned. Orig. red cloth; spine faded & sl.
worn. Bookplate of E. Pinto.
¶With cutting inserted & a few notes in the index.
1900 __________
£25
549. LEADENHALL PRESS. The Leadenhall Press
Series of Forgotten Picture Books for Children.
No. i-iii. Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press. Col.
fronts & illus., ads. 3 vols. in orig. green printed
wraps in half dark green morocco, gilt spine,
t.e.g. Stamps of H.A. St. John Mildmay. v.g.
¶Facsimiles of ‘Dame Wiggins of Lee and her
seven wonderful cats’ by Richard Scrafton
Sharpe and Mrs. Pearson;
‘The Gaping,
Wide-mouthed, Waddling Frog’; and ‘Deborah
Dent and Her Donkey’, published by Dean &
Munday, 1823. The 32pp picture books are
printed on one side of the leaf only. There is a
useful introduction by Andrew Tuer, suggesting
the illustrations are by R. Stennet.
1887 £120
550. LEADENHALL PRESS.
The Leadenhall
Press Series of Forgotten Picture Books for
Children. No. i. Dame Wiggins of Lee and her
seven wonderful cats: a humorous tale written
principally by a Lady of ninety. Republished.
Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press. Col. front.
& illus., 6pp. ads. Orig. brown illus. printed
wraps; sl. darkened, lacking one corner at front.
1887 £25
551. LEWIS, John. Collecting Printed Ephemera: a
background to social habits and social history,
to eating and drinking, to travel and heritage and
just for fun. Folio. Studio Vista. Half title, illus.,
facsims. Orig. black cloth. v.g. in d.w.
1976 £15
EPHEMERA
552. LEWIS, John. Printed Ephemera: the changing
uses of type and letterforms in English and
American printing. Folio. Ipswich: W.S. Cowell.
Half title, title in red & black, facsims., some col.
Orig. beige flecked cloth. v.g. in d.w.
1962 £25
553. LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA.
American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and
Poetical Broadsides, 1850-1870: a catalogue
of the Collection of the Library Company
of Philadelphia, by Edwin Wolf 2nd. Folio.
Philadelphia: The Company. Illus. Orig. brown
buckram. v.g.
1963 £20
BLACK-LETTER BALLADS
554. LILLY, Joseph. A Collection of Seventy-Nine
Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides, printed in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth between the years
1559-1597. Accompanied with an introd. and
illustrative notes. 2nd issue. Joseph Lilly. Half
title. Orig. publisher’s quarter purple roan, cloth
sides; sl. rubbing. t.e.g.
¶Printed at the Chiswick Press;
was in 1867.
1870 first edition
£50
GLASGOW CHAPBOOKS
555. (LINDSAY, James & Robert) A Collection of
Material assembled by Leslie Shepard on James
and Robert Lindsay, the Glasgow publishers of
chapbooks c.1850-95. 1 folder.
¶Correspondence with Adam McNaughtan
and others and photocopies assembled in
connection with Shepard’s reprint of John
Cheap the Chapman’s Library.
[c.1986] £50
556. LLOYD, Albert Lancaster.
The Singing
Englishman:
an introduction to folksong.
Workers’ Music Association. (Keynote series,
Book 4.) 2pp ads. Stabbed in orig. green printed
wraps. v.g. 70pp.
¶Lloyd wrote the introduction to Leslie
Shepard’s ‘The Broadside Ballad’, 1962.
[1944] £10
MASSACHUSETTS BROADSIDES
557. LOWANCE, Mason I., Jr & BUMGARDNER,
Georgia B.
Massachusetts Broadsides of
the American Revolution; ed. by Mason I.
Lowance, Jr & Georgia B. Bumgardner. Folio.
Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. Half
title, facsims. Orig. light brown cloth. v.g. in
sl. torn d.w.
1976 £20
558. MCKAY, Barry. An Introduction to Chapbooks.
(Oldham.)
Incline Press. Illus., extra illus
in pocket inside back cover. Orig. blue paper
boards, white cloth spine. FINE.
¶No. 130 of 250 copies signed by the Author.
With another example of a Penrith chapbook reset by Barry McKay for an exhibition at Penrith.
2003 £30
559. MAGGS BROS. Ballads, Satires, Poems and
Pamphlets printed in the years 1679 and 1680.
Catalogue 998. Summer 1979. Maggs Bros.
Orig. pict. wraps.
¶With postcard to Leslie Shepard responding to
an order.
1979 £5
560. MAKEPEACE, Chris E. Ephemera: a book
on its collection, conservation and use. Gower
Publishing Co. (A Grafton book.) Front., illus.
Orig. black cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶Signed by Victor Neuburg, 1985.
1985 £25
561. MARTINENGO-CESARESCO, Evelyn, Countess.
Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs. J.M. Dent &
Sons. (Everyman’s library.) Orig. orange cloth.
Bookplate of Frank How & signature of Victor
Neuburg.
[1914] £15
562. MAYOR, Alpheus Hyatt. Popular Prints of the
Americas. Folio. New York: Crown Publishers.
Half title, illus. facsims, some col. Orig. green
cloth. v.g. in sl. torn d.w.
¶Including some penny dreadful/dime novel
material.
1973 £40
WIFE SELLING
563. MENEFEE, Samuel Pyeatt. Wives for Sale: an
ethnographic study of British popular divorce.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Front. & illus. Orig.
brown cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶Illustrated with a number
broadsides on the subject.
1981 of
popular
£25
OLD STORY BOOKS
564. MERTON, Ambrose, pseud. (William John
Thoms) Old Story Books of England. Illustrated
with twelve pictures by eminent artists. Collected
and re-edited by Ambrose Merton. Westminster:
printed for Joseph Cundall. Front. & plates;
some foxing. Orig. green cloth; spine faded. v.g.
¶Running head:
‘Grammer Gurton’s Story
Books’.
Attractively printed by Charles
Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. Merton’s
name on the titlepage is partly composed of
rebuses. Some of the traditional stories were
also published separately;
the artists are
Frederick Tayler, John Franklin & John Absolon.
1845 £85
565. MILLER, Thomas. Fair Rosamond; or, The
days of King Henry II. An historical romance.
William Nicholson & Sons. Half title, front., 5pp
ads. Orig. dark green cloth, bevelled boards; sl.
mark. v.g.
¶The legend of Rosamond Clifford, first published
in 3 vols in 1839. Dated from an inscription.
[c.1886] £20
566. MISTLER, Jean & others. Epinal et l’Imagerie
Populaire, par Jean Mistler, François Blaudez,
André Jacquemin.
4to.
(Paris):
Librarie
Hachette. Half title, plates (some col.), illus.
Orig. plain wraps in col. folded wraps. v.g.
1961 £25
567. MOBLEY, William Frost.
A Superlative
Selection of American Nineteenth-Century
Historical and Advertising Broadsides, Trade
Cards, Admission Tickets, ... Broadsheets, Song
Ballads, ... illustrating the social, political, and
business history as well as the development and
flowering of display typography and job printing
of the last century. Folio. Wilbraham, Mass.:
Wm. Frost Mobley. Illus. Orig. brick red printed
wraps. v.g.
¶A fully illustrated catalogue of items for sale,
with an announcement card, an ALS from Bell
Mobley, and an advertisement reprinting the
cover, signed by William Mobley. 564 items.
1980 £20
MORE, Hannah, 1745-1833
Founded the Religious Tract Society.
568. BUCKLAND, Anna Jane. The Life of Hannah
More. A lady of two centuries. R.T.S. Front.
port., illus. Orig. brown cloth. v.g.
[1882] £25
569. HAIR, P.E.H. The Lancashire Collier Girl, 1795.
Reprinted from the Transactions of the Historic
Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. 120,
1968. n.p. Stapled as issued in orig. yellow
printed wraps. pp.63-86.
¶The facts, source and adaptation of a popular
Cheap Repository tract by Hannah More.
1968 £10
570. HOPKINS, Mary Alden. Hannah More and her
Circle. New York: Longmans. Half title, front. &
plates. Orig. blue cloth. v.g. in d.w.
1947 £20
571. THOMPSON, Henry.
The Life of Hannah
More; with notices of her sisters. Printed for
T. Cadell; & W. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh.
Front. port. foxed, plates, illus.; pencil note at
end. Orig. blue-green cloth; split & worn. a
poor copy. Label of T. Patch, bookseller, Dorset
County Fancy Repository.
1838 £35
__________
572. MORELL, Patricia.
Street Cries.
Hove:
Wayland Publishers. (Eyewitness history book.)
Illus. Orig. blue cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶A useful account written for children.
1978 £6
573. MORRISON, Arthur.
Grandfather’s PictureBooks. A set of VII articles extracted from The
Picture Magazine, vol. IV(?) Disbound.
¶Reproducing
numerous
early
woodcut
illustrations with comments by the novelist
author of low-life tales.
[c.1894] £25
WITH THREE ORIGINAL CHAPBOOKS
USED FOR ILLUSTRATION
574. MUIR, Percy. Victorian Illustrated Books. 4to.
B.T. Batsford. Half title, col. front. & plates,
illus. Orig. orange cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶With correspondence between Muir and Leslie
Shepard about borrowing (originally) four Victorian
chapbooks to use as illustrations, and with
the three children’s chapbooks [c.1840] chosen
for illustration on p.14. The chapbooks are: 1)
Nursery Songs by Susan Silence. Printed and
sold by E. Billings, 86 Bermondsey Street London.
2) The Butterfly’s Ball. Birmingham: printed by D.
Jones. 3) The History of Simple Simon. n.p.
1971 [c.1840] £120
575. MUIR, Willa. Living with Ballads. Hogarth
Press. Half title, music. Orig. blue cloth. v.g.
in sl. torn d.w.
1965 £20
576. MUMMING. Mumming and the Mummers’ Play
of St. George: three versions including that of
Thomas Hardy; ed. by J. Stevens Cox. St. Peter
Port, Guernsey: Toucan Press. (Monographs on
the life, times and works of Thomas Hardy, no.
67.) Front., bibliog. Orig. white card wraps. v.g.
pp.(4), 429-452.
¶See also items 467, 483, 490, 598 & 653. (See
also Private Press, item 621.)
1970 £15
577. MURRAY, J. Clark. The Ballads and Songs
of Scotland, in view of their influence on the
character of the people. Macmillan. Half title,
ad. leaf & 56pp cata. (March 1874). Orig. dark
green cloth.
1874 £25
578. NATIONAL BOOK LEAGUE. Folk Song and
Dance: a list of books selected by Keith Clark.
(The League with English Folk Dance and Song
Society.) N.B.L. Illus., (12)pp ads, final blank.
Orig. yellow illus. wraps. 48, (12)pp.
1972 £5
579. NATIONAL
LIBRARY
OF
SCOTLAND.
Catalogue of the Lauriston Castle Chapbooks.
Folio. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co. Orig.
brown buckram. v.g.
¶Reproduced from catalogue cards.
The
collection of 500 volumes of chapbooks formed
by John A. Fairley.
1964 NEUBURG, Victor E.
For biographical information,
Introduction.
£50
see
Catalogue
580. Chapbooks:
a bibliography of references to
English and American chapbook literature of the
18th and 19th centuries. 4to. Vine Press. (The
Author.) Half title, front. & plates, reproduced from
typescript. Orig. grey printed wraps. v.g. 88pp.
¶With a collection of correspondence between
the Author and Leslie Shepard, etc. about the
book and other projects, and a broadside on
green paper advertising the work.
1964 £40
581. Chapbooks: ... 4to. Vine Press. (The Author.)
Half title, front. & plates, reproduced from
typescript. Orig. grey printed wraps. v.g. 88pp.
1964 £20
582. The Diceys and the Chapbook Trade. Bibliographical Society. Plate. Orig. grey printed
wraps. pp.219-231.
¶Reprinted from the Transactions, The
Library, September 1969. Signed presentation
inscription from Neuburg to Leslie Shepard.
1969 £12
583. The Literature of the Streets. An extract of
pp.191-209 of The Victorian City: images and
realities, vol. I. Orig. printed paper wraps.
¶Inscribed by the Author to Leslie Shepard.
1973 £8
584. The Penny Histories: a study of chapbooks for
young readers over two centuries. Illustrated
with facsimiles of seven chapbooks.
First
American edn. New York: Harcourt, Brace &
World.
(Milestones in children’s literature.)
Half title, facsims, bibliog. Orig. cream printed
boards, red cloth spine. Near mint in d.w.
1969 £15
585. Popular Education in Eighteenth Century
England. FIRST EDITION. Woburn Press. Half
title. Orig. brown cloth in sl. rubbed d.w. Library
stamp on leading pastedown & verso of title.
¶With a chapter on Chapbooks and other cheap
literature.
[1971] £15
586. Popular Literature: a history and guide, from
the beginning of printing to the year 1897.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. Illus. Orig.
wraps; sl. rubbing.
¶With a carbon copy of Leslie Shepard’s (luke
warm) typewritten review from Blackrock, 13th
July 1977.
1977 £8
587. A Select Handlist of References to Chapbook
Literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Slim 12mo. Edinburgh: privately
printed by J.A. Birkbeck. Inserted front plate.
Stabbed as issued in orig. buff printed wraps.
v.g. (26)pp.
¶One of 150 copies.
With presentation
inscription to the Author from the printer, a
frontispiece included with onlay of image
of poster for the Street Literature exhibition
at the St Bride’s Institute, two inserted
advertisement slips for the work and a TLS
to Neuburg from Sir Frank Francis of the
British Museum.
1952 £10
588.A Select Handlist ... Slim 12mo. Edinburgh:
privately printed by J.A. Birkbeck. Stabbed
as issued in orig. buff printed wraps.
v.g. (24)pp.
1952 £5
__________
589. NILES, John Jacob.
Singing Soldiers;
illustrated by Margaret Thorniley Williamson,
new introd. by Leslie Shepard.
Reissued.
Detroit: Singing Tree Press. Half title, music,
illus. Orig. blue cloth. v.g.
¶A reissue of the Charles Scribner’s Sons 1927
edition of the ‘songs and anecdotes of American
negro soldiers in World War I’. Shepard supplies
a short biography of Niles.
1968 £15
LITTERATURE DU COLPORTAGE
590. NISARD, Charles. Histoire des Livres Populaires
ou de la littérature du colportage depuis l’origine
de l’imprimerie ... 2e éd. 2 vols. Paris: E.
Dentu. Half titles, illus. Contemp. half dark blue
morocco, gilt spines; sl. rubbing. Bookplates of
Raphael Bauer, signed by Victor Neuburg. v.g.
1864 £120
FOLK-RHYMES
591. NORTHALL, G.F. English Folk-Rhymes: a
collection of traditional verses relating to places
and persons, customs, superstitions, etc. Kegan
Paul. Half title. Orig. red buckram, bevelled
boards; spine faded.
¶Signed by Victor Neuburg, and dated 30.v.’60.
1892 £45
592. O’NEILL, Francis. Irish Minstrels and Musicians,
with numerous dissertations on related subjects.
With a new introd. by Barry O’Neill. (Reprint
edn.) Darby, PA: Norwood Editions. Half title,
illus., music. Orig. turquoise cloth. v.g.
¶A reprint of the Chicago edition of 1913.
1973 £30
OPIE, Robert
593. The Art of the Label: designs of the times. 4to.
Simon Schuster. Col. front. & illus. Orig. blue
cloth. v.g. in d.w.
1987 £12
594. Rule Britannia: trading on the British image.
Folio. Harmondsworth: Viking. Largely illus.,
some col. Orig. red cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶A collection of advertisements inspired by
British institutions & stereotypes.
1985 £13
595. Sweet Memories:
a selection of confectionery
delights, sampled by Robert Opie. Folio. Pavilion
Books. Largely col. illus. Orig. red cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶A collection of advertising images.
1988 __________
£12
THE CAMPDEN WONDER
596. OVERBURY, Sir Thomas. The ‘Campden Wonder’:
an account of a remarkable trial for murder in the
county of Gloucester; ... 2nd edn. Stratford-uponAvon: J. Morgan, printer. Stabbed as issued; sl.
marked. 30, (2)pp.
¶A 1904 reprint of a pamphlet issued in 1676
about a family executed for the murder of a
missing man who later reappeared. With a
copy of a later edition with a full examination
of the case, edited by Sir George Clark, with
chapters by Viscount Maugham and D. Russell
Davis. Published by Oxford Univ. Press in
1959. Orig. brown cloth. v.g. in dw.
1904 / 1959 £35
597. OVSYANNIKOV, Yuri Maksimillianovich. The
Lubok: 17th-18th century Russian broadsides.
(English text by Arthur Shkarovsky-Raffé.) 4to.
Moscow:
‘Sovietsky Khudozhnik’ Publishing
House. Double titlepage, col. and b&w plates.
Orig. white cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶Consisting largely of illustrations, with
introductory text in Russian and English.
1968 £10
598. PEACE EGG. The Peace Egg or St. George: an
Easter play: an original chapbook from Edwards
& Bryning (1959) with a brief history of Peter
Stevenson. (Sheffield:) Traditional Drama Research
Group. Orig. grey printed wraps. 6 + 8pp.
¶The stapled play, published in Rochdale, is
in a pocket formed by the back wrapper, with
introductory essay.
1982 £10
599. PEARSALL, Ronald. Victorian Popular Music.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles. Front., illus.
Orig. illus card wraps.
1973 £10
600. (PEPYS, Samuel) THOMPSON, Roger. Samuel
Pepys’ Penny Merriments, being a collection
of chapbooks ... selected and edited by Roger
Thompson. Constable & Co. Half title, illus.
Orig. brown cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶Chapbooks collected by Samuel Pepys mostly
in the 1680s; with the signature of Victor
Neuburg. Containing a letter from Margaret
Spufford to Neuburg complaining of literary
poaching by Thompson.
1976 £20
601. (PERCY, Thomas) SOTHEBYS. The Library of
Thomas Percy, 1729-1811, Bishop of Dromore,
editor of The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ...
which will be sold in one lot by auction ... Monday,
23rd June, 1969 ... Sotheby & Co. Front. & plates,
illus. Orig. green printed boards. v.g.
¶A cutting laid down on leading pastedown
records the sale to Queen’s University, Belfast
for £90,000. (See also items 247 & 248.)
1969 £20
MEXICAN WOODCUTS
602. POSADA, José Guadalupe. Posada’s Popular
Mexican Prints: 273 cuts by José Guadalupe
Posada;
selected and ed., with an introd.
and commentary, by Roberto Berdecio and
Stanley Appelbaum. Folio. New York: Dover
Publications. Facsims., 9pp ads. Orig. printed
card wraps. v.g.
1972 £20
PRIVATE PRESS PUBLICATIONS
603. AT THE SIGN OF THE FLYING FAME. Broadsides, Booklets and Advertisements collected by
Leslie Shepard. Many are illustrated by Claud
Lovat Fraser. At the Sign of the Flying Fame.
Illus., some col. or on pink or brown paper; the
odd crease or marginal split.
¶The pamphlet poem ‘The Song of Honour’
by Ralph Hodgson, 1913 (browning caused
by paper wraps); A Garland of Portraitures,
1913 (col. & uncol. versions); A Garland of
606
PRIVATE PRESS PUBLICATIONS continued
New Songs, 1913; Songs no. I-3 with 2nd
impression of no.3, unnumbered with 6 unnumbered broadside songs & poems, n.d.; A
Parable, no. 4, by Lovat Fraser, 1913; Captain
Macheath, no. 5, 1913; The Lonely House, no.
6, 1913, with broadside List of publications,
1913 (2 copies). The press was founded by
Ralph Hodgson with Claud Lovat Fraser in
1912 and continued until 1923. Also included
is a postcard advertising a work illustrated by
Lovat Fraser, [1921].
1913 £250
604. BREWHOUSE PRESS. Broadsheet No. 5, 6, 8.
(Wymondham): Brewhouse Press. Folded sheets
in printed folders. v.g.
¶No. 5. One Hour Less: a bookbinder dies from
gaol fever, by Rigby Graham & Trevor Hickman.
One of 200 copies, Autumn 1968. Grey illus.
folder.
No. 6. Roger Payne, bookbinder, (by) Penelope
Holt. Illus. by Rigby Graham. One of 200
copies, Spring 1969. Folder imitating Payne
binding.
No. 8. Myself as a printer, by Count Potocki of
Montalk. One folded sheet, illus. 240 copies,
Summer 1970. Illus. folder. With a folded
advertisement for the Press.
1968-70 £30
605. BUDAY, George. Cries of London: ancient &
modern. Privately printed. (George Buday’s
Tenth little book.) Title in red, illus. Orig. red
cloth, with paper title on front board. v.g. in
illus. d.w.
¶Compiled and with wood engravings by
George Buday who also set the type and printed
the work on his Albion Hand Press in Chelsea.
Brought up to date with the bus conductor &
seller of nylons. ‘Advance copy, printed for
friends & acquaintances of the Artist.’
1954 £20
606. DOLMEN PRESS. 4 Broadsides, with other
Dublin printed broadsides. Dolman Press. Illus,
music. Various sizes; some sl. creased.
¶Dolmen Press: Love Duet by Donagh Macdonagh; torn at edges, 1951; Garland Sunday,
by Padraic Colum (New series no.4) col. & uncol.
versions, 1958; advertisement flyer for Old and
new ballads, n.d. WITH St Sepulchre’s Press:
New lines on the recent disturbances, 1969;
folded and posted to Leslie Shepard; O’Brien
Press: Ye olde wode quay, by P. Healy, n.d. (2
copies); Ossin Publications: She moved through
the fair. (Irish song & balladsheets, ser. 1, no.
8), 1980; The Coilin Broadsheet. 3 issues (+1
duplicate), n.p., 1982-84 and Mournful new lines
on the houses falling down in Dublin, n.p., n.d.
1951-84 £250
THE CHAP-MAN
607. DUNSMORE, Eddie.
Seven Small Broadsides
published by The Chap-man, at Petts Wood, Orpington.
With two sheets in intermediate production and
a later change-of address card to Bromley, with an
exchange of letters with Leslie Shepard, and a folio A
New Year Keep-Sake from Jacquie & Eddie Dunsmore
reprinting ‘The Cutty Wren’.
[1966-67] £20
608. EDINBURGH. The New Athenian Broadsheet.
No. 4, 7-9, 13-15. July 1948, May - Autumn
1949, Autumn 1950 - Summer 1951. Edinburgh.
(The Favil Press, London; later Edinburgh: Neill
& Co.) Headpiece by William McLaren. Folded
as issued; some with ink markings.
¶Selected poems by contemporary poets; the
ink marks may be by Henry M. Henderson of
Dounreay, the original owner.
1948-51 £35
THE BROADSHEET KING
609. FOREMAN, John. A Substantial Collection of
Pamphlets and Broadsides published by ‘The
Broadsheet King’.
¶From the earliest cyclostyled ballads to large
facsimiles on coloured paper. With correspondence between Foreman and Leslie Shepard
indicating a long friendship and collaboration.
Some duplicates are available. Foreman was
originally a teacher, who printed as a hobby and
has kept the ballad tradition alive in performance
and printing. (See also items 295 & 617.)
[c.1948-2000] £1,250
CHILDREN’S PRIVATE PRESS
610. GUTHRIE, Stuart. A Chapbook for Little Chaps;
collected from nursery magazines at different
times and edited by Stuart Guthrie. (Flansham:
printed by hand at the Pear Tree Press.) Front.
& col. linocut illus. Orig. dec. boards printed
with name Sylvia, ms. paper label on front; sl.
rubbing. 26pp.
¶A queried pencil note reads ‘Produced by
James Guthrie’s sons when very young’. The
preface says that the poems were made by
children round the table on winter evenings.
1920 £150
611. HEDGEHOG PRESS. A Quantity of Broadsides
& Pamphlets and Keepsakes, &c. printed by
Alan Brignull. Printed by Alan Brignull at the
Hedgehog Press in Wivenhoe & Loughborough.
¶Including Hedgehog Broadsheets, [1]-10, and
an exchange of letters with Leslie Shepard.
[c.1990-97] £30
612. LYLE, John (Bookseller). Advertising Card,
Bookmark & Miniature Leaflet issued by John
Lyle in Exeter using Joseph Crawhall images. In
a similar envelope.
¶With note from Lyle and copy of letter from
Leslie Shepard.
[1965] £10
613. OLEANDER PRESS. Cambridgeshire Broadsheets.
No.1-3. Cambridge: Oleander Press. Large Quarto
broadsides with illus. on col. paper or card.
¶1. Swaffham Prior by Rigby Graham;
2. Heffer’s Bookshop by Philip Ward;
3. Haslingfield Dovehouse, by Peter Jeevar.
1976 £25
609
PRIVATE PRESS PUBLICATIONS continued
614. POETRY BOOKSHOP. A Collection of Broadsides,
made by Leslie Shepard. Seven broadsides and
a ballad. Poetry Bookshop. Col. illus., various
sizes; the odd crease or sm. split.
¶A ballad of ‘The Gloster’ & ‘The Goeben’ by
Maurice Hewlett, (4pp.), [1914];
The New
Broadside, No. 1,3,6, 10, [c.1920-30]; Rhyme
Sheet: 2nd series, No. 6, 23. [c.1920-30]. Also
Rhyme Sheet in similar style, ‘Sixpennyworth’,
unnumbered with no imprint or date. Works by
various poets with illus by artists including C.
Lovat Fraser, Albert Rutherston, E. McKnight
Kauffer. See also items 253, 254 & 466.
[1914-30] £380
ERIC GILL
615. ST DOMINIC’S PRESS. A Carol. (Broad Sheet,
No. 2, 3.) Ditchling: printed at S. Dominic’s
Press. Two folio broadside carols with illus. at
head; no. 2 a bit dusted. 3 items.
¶With a sm. 4to 8pp catalogue in green printed
wrappers with introduction by Hilary Pepler,
issued from the London Office, 20 Bury Street
in 1930. Both have an illustration by Eric Gill
(Gill 375).
1920-30 £250
JOAN HASSELL
616. SALTIRE SOCIETY. Saltire Chapbook. No. 4, 8-12.
Edinburgh: printed by R. & R. Clark. Illus. v.g.
¶Attractive Scots booklets designed by Joan
Hassell with two-colour titles and illustrated with
her wood engravings. No. 4: The Marriage of Robin
Redbreast and the Wren is the second reprint,
the rest are first printings; no.11 is Scotland on
Freedom, ed. by Agnes Mure Mackenzie.
1947-51 £45
PHOENIX BROADSHEETS
617. SAVAGE, Toni.
A very large Collection of
publications of Toni Savage’s Offcut and New
Broom private presses in Leicester 1970-94,
a few produced in conjunction with others.
Leicester. Broadsides, with illus. (some col.) on
different coloured papers; most are mint but a
few have folds due to posting, or minor creases.
Booklets are mostly stitched with coloured
thread, but one is cased in green boards.
¶Phoenix Broadsheets (poems by local poets,
including Spike Milligan, and some keepsakes
for special events) No.1-135, 146-210, 212-360,
366-410 including two different works numbered
34, 37, 53; two (one three) copies of no.35, 37, 42,
44, 45, 55, 61, 77, 81, 92, 94, 95, 122, 124, 127,
310, 339, 356, 407 on different papers. No.100
has a portrait of Savage. With correspondence
between Leslie Shepard and Savage, ending
with a letter announcing Toni Savage’s death
in 1994. Including also 1 unnumbered Phoenix
Broadsheet; Haymarket Theatre Broadsheet,
no.1-2;
Little Theatre Broadsheet, no.1, 3;
Singers Club, London, slip no.1; a Phoenix
Theatre slip 1972; Barwell broadside no.1-4
from Cog Press, Aylestone for Toni Savage’s
Ampersand Folk Club, with one Folk Club
programme 1983 including a performance by
John Foreman, 13 slip poems, one with John
Foreman’s imprint, and advertising card and
handbill for the artist Rigby Graham and 2
Christmas cards. With 22 booklets or folders,
mostly of poems, printed by Savage 1970-93 in
the same style as the broadsheets, with an early
keepsake produced for John Foreman, 1967 (see
item 609). See also item 646.
1967-94 £2,500
618. SEIMA SONGS (SEMA SONGS) 9 Broadsides,
some undated or without imprint. Published by
B.M. Amies and this co-operative, in Aberystwyth
& London.
¶With two copies of letters from Leslie Shepard
to Amies one about a co-operative venture and
about the Welsh language requirements of the
National Library of Wales. One broadside ‘Baker
Street Fair’ has a Welsh version on the verso.
1985-86 £25
LESLIE SHEPARD’S STREET SELLER
619. SMITH, James. Thirteen Printed Card Poems
composed and issued by J. Smith, 3 Ropley
Street, Bethnal Green. The Hackney Press, 407
Hackney Road, E.1. Various colours.
¶James Smith, the Oxford Street Ballad Seller,
is photographed on p.184 of Leslie Shepard’s
‘The Broadside Ballad’ 1962. With the cards
is an ALS from him to Leslie Shepard with a
carbon copy of Shepard’s reply 11th November
1954 and a TLS from the Bethnal Green Central
Public Library 1962 giving information about
Smith, who lost an arm and leg in a workplace
accident in 1930. Smith describes his career as
a travelling seller but does not answer Shepard’s
pencilled questions about how he started writing.
On some cards he gives his age as 65. The poems
are on political and topical subjects: Why Hitler
Hates Stalin, What Our Seamen Think “post to
someone”, West the Tipster, That’s Stalin, The
Dictator (after Charlies Chaplin) &c.
[c.1943-62] £120
620. STOCKHAM, Anne & Peter. A Collection of
19th century & other Facsimiles published by
Anne & Peter Stockham at Elstree & London,
including 13 juvenile works, ballad sheets, &c.
some issued as Christmas greetings. Some in
plastic envelopes as issued.
¶With a reprint of Peter Stockham’s article
‘On Collecting Chapbooks’ from ABMR,
September, 1976 with illus. & facsims, 12pp,
and correspondence between Peter Stockham
& Leslie Shepard.
The facsimiles include
chapbooks published by Kendrew, J.G. Rusher
& Thomas Richardson.
1965-80 £125
DORSET
621. TOUCAN PRESS. Three Chapbooks, (reprinted
and) edited by J. Stevens Cox. Beaminster &
St Peter Port: Toucan Press. 3 pamphlets. v.g.
¶The Peasantry of Dorsetshire, 1846; illus.,
inscription [to Leslie Shepard], 1963; Two
Dorset Ballads, c.1700;
folio, 200 copies,
1969; The felon’s account of his transportation
at Virginia in America, by John Lauson, (1754),
1969. (See also item 576).
1963-69 __________
£45
617
622. (RASPE, Rudolph Erich) Original Travels and
Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Illus.
by Alfred Crowquill. New edn. Kegan Paul. (The
Lotos series.) Series title, front., title in red & black,
illus. Orig. brown patterened cloth, elaborately gilt
blocked. a.e.g. v.g. attractive volume.
1892 £25
623. (RASPE, Rudolph Erich)
The Travels and
Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Illus. with 37 curious engravings, from the
Baron’s own designs, and five woodcuts, by G.
Cruikshank. Frederick Warne & Co. (The Prize
library.) Half title, front., plates, illus., 2 pp. ads.
Orig. brown cloth, elaborately blocked in gilt,
black & colours; inner hinges cracking. a.e.g.
¶See Cohn 584. The edition in this form was
first published by William Tegg in 1867.
[c.1885?] £25
HISTORY OF THE R.T.S.
624. RELIGIOUS
TRACT
SOCIETY.
JONES,
William. The Jubilee Memorial of the Religious
Tract Society: containing a record of its origin,
proceedings, and results. A.D. 1799 to A.D.
1849. R.T.S. 6pp cata. Orig. brown cloth; neatly
repaired with new leading f.e.p., spine sl. faded.
Ayr Town Council, McCrie Mortification Library.
¶A hefty 698pp account, with statistics. MS.
reader’s slip tipped in.
1850 £150
625. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. The Story of
the Religious Tract Society. (A souvenir of the
Meeting held at the Queen’s Hall on Tuesday,
March 22nd, 1898.) Obl. 8vo. R.T.S. Illus.
Ribbon ties into white printed boards; sl. dulled.
¶With the booklet (Oxford only on Copac) is
included a small col. print of the RTS Repository,
Paternoster Row, 11 x 15cm, c.1850, laid down
on green card.
1898 £35
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A COLPORTEUR
626. RENNIE, James, Colporteur. Seed-time and
Harvest. Autobiography. Ed. by T. Bowick.
Morgan & Scott. Front., plates (one torn &
repaired), 3pp ads. Orig. grey pict. cloth. Renier
booklabel.
¶Rennie worked for the Scottish Tract and Book
Society, and includes discussion of the running
of such organisations.
1905 £30
DRINKING FOUNTAIN INSCRIPTIONS
627. RICHINGS, Benjamin. Inscriptions for Public
Drinking Fountains, in prose and verse, selected
and original. W. Tweedie. Stitched as issued. 8pp.
¶Richings was Vicar of Mancetter, Warks, &
supports the growing Drinking Fountain movement.
[1859] £35
RICKARDS, Maurice
628. Collecting Printed Ephemera. 4to. Oxford:
Phaidon-Christies. Front., illus., some col. Orig.
black cloth. v.g. in d.w.
1988 £15
629. The Ephemera of Crime and Punishment. The
Ephemera Society in association with the
Solicitors’ Law Stationery Society. Orig. printed
wraps. 32pp.
1983 £6
630. The Public Notice: an illustrated history. 4to.
(Newton Abbot): David & Charles. Half title,
illus. Orig. grey cloth. v.g. in d.w.
1973 £20
631. The Public Notice: ... 4to. New York: Clarkson N.
Potter. Half title, illus. Orig. grey cloth. v.g. in d.w.
1973 £20
632. The Rise and Fall of the Poster. 4to. New York:
McGraw-Hill. Half title, illus. (some col.). Orig.
black cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶Primarily on the 20th century.
1971 £10
633. This is Ephemera: collected printed throwaways.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles. Illus. Orig. col.
glazed boards. v.g.
1977 £8
__________
634. RIJKSMUSEUM, Amsterdam. Centsprenten:
Catchpenny prints ... Dutch popular - and
children-prints ... Introduction and catalogue
C.F. van Veen. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum.
Front., illus., some col., facsims. Orig. col.
printed wraps. v.g.
¶To accompany an exhibition in the
Rijksprentenkabinet, 10 Juli / 3 Oktober 1976.
1976 £10
635. RITCHIE, James T.R.
The Singing Street.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. Half title, plates.
Orig. crimson cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶Largely on children’s singing games in Edinburgh.
1964 £12
A BAD TEMPERED ANTIQUARIAN
636. (RITSON, Joseph) HASLEWOOD, Joseph.
Some Account of the Life and Publications of
the late Joseph Ritson. Robert Triphook. Front.
silhouette port. with offsetting.
Orig. drab
boards, brown cloth spine; spine with sl. loss to
head & tail, ink label.
¶A scarce account of the antiquarian best
remembered as a collector of ballads, but also
as a fanatical vegetarian. With a pencil note at
the end, quoting Gosse’s description of Ritson
as ‘a hornet’ unable to produce honey of his
own. (See also items 271-274.)
1824 £125
637. ROBINSON, Clement, &c.
A Handful of
Pleasant Delights, 1584; ed. by Hyder E. Rollins.
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. Half title.
Orig. brown cloth. v.g.
¶A miscellany of broadside ballads, in type
facsimile.
1924 £25
STATIONERS’ COMPANY
638. ROLLINS, Hyder E. An Analytical Index to the
Ballad-Entries (1557-1709) in the Registers of
the Company of Stationers of London; compiled
by Hyder E. Rollins, foreword by Leslie Shepard.
(Reprinted.) Hatboro, Penn.: Tradition Press.
Orig. red cloth. v.g.
¶An important bibliography, first published in 1924.
1967 £25
639. ROMER, G.P., Bookseller. English Chapbooks
& Songsters of the 18th & early 19th century.
Juveniles, gothic tales & crime, history & politics,
sea & sailors, theatre, etc. 4to. Hertford (Conn.):
G.P. Romer. Duplicated typescript. Stapled, in
green wraps; faded. 32pp.
¶Dated from a faded stamp. 172 items.
[1948?] £30
WAR PROPAGANDA
640. ROSNER, Charles. The Writing on the Wall,
1813-1943. Obl. Nicholson & Watson Illus.
Orig. printed boards. v.g. in sl. faded d.w.
¶‘This book of pictures has been compiled
from the Napoleonic collection of broadsheets,
cartoons and prints [in the] Bodleian Library,
Oxford. They have been arranged to illustrate
the invasion threat directed against Britain in
1798-1803 ... and prove the similarity of the
situation in 1803 and 1940’, &c. With extracts
from Winston Churchill’s speeches.
1943 £20
641. ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. Catalogue
of a Collection of Printed Broadsides in the
possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Compiled by Robert Lemon. Folio. Society of
Antiquaries. Illus. Orig. brown cloth. v.g.
¶From 1513-1862, with the ‘Additional
Broadsides’, presented to the Society by
Edward Peacock, 1862, ‘too late for insertion in
the great body of the collection’.
1866 £25
642. RUSH, Friar. The Pleasant History of Frier
Rush. William Pickering. Orig. embossed blue
cloth. v.g. 44pp.
¶This is part of W.J. Thomas’ Early English
Prose Romances, in a later remainder binding.
See also Items 380 & 491.
1828 £35
643. SAGENDORPH, Robb. America and her Almanacs:
wit, wisdom & weather, 1639-1970. Dublin, N.H.:
Yankee; Boston: Little, Brown. Double titlepage,
illus. in black & brown. Orig. beige cloth; sl.
marked in sl. torn & strengthened d.w.
1970 £15
STREET LITERATURE EXHIBITION
644. ST BRIDE PRINTING LIBRARY. An Exhibition
of Street Literature. 4to. (Shenval Press.) Illus.,
on yellow paper. Blue printed wraps. 8pp.
¶Catalogue by W. Turner Berry, designed by
Charles Hasler, for a touring exhibition drawn
mostly from St. Bride’s Printing Library.
1954 £8
645. SANGSTER, Paul. Pity My Simplicity: the
evangelical revival and the religious education of
children 1738-1800. Epworth Press. Half title.
Orig. dark blue cloth. v.g. in sl. torn d.w.
¶The background to religious chapbook and
tract publication.
1963 £15
646. SAVAGE, Toni. An Exhibition of Street Literature.
1 Newarke Street, Leicester. 4to. (Leicester.)
Plates, cyclostyled. Stapled in pink printed wraps.
¶Catalogue of a small exhibition with long
essay by Toni Savage. With correspondence
between Savage and Leslie Shepard about the
exhibition. See also Item 617.
[1968] £15
647. SEGUIN, Jean Pierre. Canards du Siècle Passé;
présentés par Jean Pierre Séguin. Folio. Paris:
Pierre Horay. Illus. Orig. beige buckram with
onlay on front board. v.g.
¶Facsimiles of French broadsides with an
historical introduction.
1969 £40
SHEPARD, Leslie
For biographical information, see Catalogue
Introduction.
See also items 79, 414, 455, 484, 494, 499, 500,
534, 555, 589, 603, 607, 609, 612, 614, 638, 646
& 682.
Archive Collections
648. Substantial Collection of Notes, Artwork, Drafts,
Typescripts, &c. relating to Leslie Shepard’s three
major works ‘The Broadside Ballad’, ‘The History
of Street Literature’, and ‘John Pitts’, together
with proofs, correspondence, reviews, as well as
shorter articles on various topics by Shepard,
and files of material and correspondence on
other subjects arousing his interest, such as
Bram Stoker, John Harrison and timekeepers,
J.E.W. Keely, a forged Burns manuscript, the
paranormal, &c. and miscellaneous notes.
¶Archive material retained by one of the most
important chroniclers of street literature,
including research photocopies and
also
including significant correspondence preserved
separately by Shepard.
[c.1935-90?] £1,500
LESLIE SHEPARD & THE CINEMA
649. Leslie Shepard and the Cinema. A collection
of manuscript, typescript & printed material.
A quantity.
¶Including Shepard’s folio 1960 diary of work
on films, C.O.I. Information Papers, circulars
relating to Pathé, the text of lectures by Shepard
on aspects of cinema history, with various
circulars, programmes and advertisements
and a small amount of correspondence with
cinematographers and photographers including
Liam O’Leary, Ernest Bornemann & Wolfgang
Suschitzky.
There are shooting scripts for
documentaries on the mining industry and for
‘It’s in the air’ for the D.S.I.R. Two interesting
single page typescripts are a CV for Shepard’s
648
SHEPARD, Leslie, Archive Collections
continued
career in films and editorial work 1933-57,
and an autobiographical statement ‘Farewell a long farewell’ on leaving the Film Division of
the C.O.I. in disillusion at the age of 45 ‘without
a job to go to’: ‘he would sooner be an honest
postman than train as an amoral administrator’.
[c.1948-91] £1,500
BOOKMARKS INCLUDING STEPHENGRAPHS
650. Collection of Bookmarks. Approx. 200 miscellaneous items.
¶Mostly from the 1970s and 1980s, with a few
variants, mostly relating to the book trade, but
with 3 woven Stephengraphs, 1 Cash’s woven
mark, and about 10 early insurance company
marks. The woven bookmarks are: Apostle of
Free Trade, John Bright; Faith, Hope & Charity;
Happy May thy birthday be.
[c.1870-1985] £85†
BOOKPLATES
651. Collection of Bookplates. Approx. 130 examples
in various styles.
¶Including many armorial bookplates, some
items from the USA and Europe. Some are
laid down and identified by earlier collectors,
mostly from letters B & C. Many are unused
examples but some are taken from books.
Included are the Bewick bookplate of Thomas
Bell, Beardsley’s Mr Pollitt, Rex Whistler’s
bookplate of Ronald Fuller (sl. torn at one edge),
bookplates by Joan Hassall, and the bookplate
of Haldane Macfall, M.P. Shiel and Dennis
Wheatley.
[c.1750-1950?] £250†
GRAMOPHONE CATALOGUES
652. Collection of Catalogues, Periodicals and
Advertising Materials relating to Gramophone
Recordings, mostly of folk music.
¶Including an HMV Instrument catalogue of
1920, and an Educational catalogue 1951,
with a J.G. Graves of Sheffield Ariel Records
catalogue (rusted at staples).
[c.1920-80?] £50
PEACE EGG
653. Collection relating to plays in chapbooks, largely
concerning ‘The Peace Egg’. One folder.
¶Correspondence
mostly
between
Leslie
Shepard & Paul Smith, with copies & photocopies
of published studies by M.J. Preston, M.G. & P.S.
Smith on chapbooks, with play texts of traditional
drama (see also at Mumming, item 576).
[c.1975-98] £120
SEVEN DIALS
654. Small Collection relating to Seven Dials, one of
the centres of the Chapbook industry.
¶A mounted print of a photograph of part
of Seven Dials c.1900, 10 large more recent
photographs, eight from a high vantage point,
and two of buildings, with two pamphlets
connected with the Seven Dials Monument
Appeal 1988-9 and its unveiling, with the
Appeal running until 1994, and an exchange of
letters with Shepard.
[c.1900-94] £25†
DULCIMER
655. Leslie Shepard’s File relating to the Mountain
Dulcimer.
¶Various pamphlets and folded plans for making
and playing an Appalachian or Mountain Dulcimer
with correspondence between Leslie Shepard and
various experts in the 1960s, and including a
copy of R. Gerald Alvey’s book ‘Dulcimer Maker:
the craft of Homer Ledford’, 1984.
1958-84 __________
£65
Works
SHEPARD TO NEUBURG
656. The Broadside Ballad: a study of origins and
meaning. FIRST EDITION. Herbert Jenkins. Half
title, illus., facsims. Orig. blue cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶A comprehensive study, with forewords by A.L.
Lloyd and Kenneth S. Goldstein. Leslie Shepard’s
signed presentation copy to Victor Neuburg.
1962 £20
657. The Broadside Ballad: ... FIRST AMERICAN
EDITION. Hatboro, PA: Legacy Books; Wakefield:
E.P. Publishers. Half title, illus., facsims. Orig.
blue boards. v.g. in d.w.
1978 £15
658. The Broadside Ballad: ... FIRST AMERICAN
EDITION. Hatboro, PA: Legacy Books; Wakefield: E.P. Publishers. Half title, illus., facsims.
Orig. white printed paper wraps.
1978 £10
659. Chapbooks. John Cheap, The Chapman’s Library.
A bibliographical note. Detroit: for Singing Tree
Press by Gale Research Company. Vignette.
Stabbed in small chapbook format. 8pp.
¶Printed as an advertisement of Shepard’s
introduction to the reissue of John Cheap the
Chapman’s Library. See items 470 & 555.
1968 £5
660. Collecting Broadsides and Chapbooks. Pp. 1-19,
in BCD: The quarterly journal of the Book Club
of Detroit. Vol. I. No. I. Fall 1972. Detroit. Orig.
cream wraps.
¶An engagingly characteristic account.
1972 £8
661. The History of Street Literature: the story of
broadside ballads, chapbooks, proclamations,
news-sheets, election bills, tracts, pamphlets,
cocks, catchpennies, and other ephemera. FIRST
EDITION. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
Front., illus. Orig. brown cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶The standard introduction to the subject.
1973 £20
662. The History of Street Literature: ... FIRST
AMERICAN EDITION. Detroit: Singing Tree
Press, Book Tower. Front., illus. Orig. brown
cloth. v.g. in d.w.
1973 £15
649
SHEPARD, Leslie, Works continued
663. John Pitts, Ballad Printer of Seven Dials,
London, 1765-1844; with a short account of
his predecessors in the Ballad & Chapbook
trade.
Private Libraries Association. Plate,
illus., facsims. Orig. crimson cloth. v.g. in orig.
glassine wrap.
¶A valuable historical account with a partial
bibliography. 1600 copies were printed with
700 for sale.
1969 £15
664. John Pitts, Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London,
1765-1844; ... Private Libraries Association;
Detroit: Singing Tree Press, Book Tower. Plate,
illus., facsims. Orig. crimson cloth. v.g. in orig.
glassine wrap.
¶The American issue with the added imprint.
1969 £15
665. Popular Broadside Ballads. A new series. In: Folk
Scene. No. 14. Dec. 1965. pp.24-27 with illus.
¶No. 5: Christmas comes but once a year. The
magazine issue is on The American Dream,
with words & music.
1965 £5
666. Thought for the Day. 4parts. Duplicated typescript, once folded.
¶Texts of Leslie Shepard’s Monday-Thursday
Thoughts for the Day broadcast by the BBC 18th
- 21st April 1977 with resulting correspondence
including two pamphlets sent to him.
1977 __________
£25
667. (SHERWOOD, Mary Martha) CUTT, M. Nancy.
Mrs. Sherwood and her Books for Children: a
study. Oxford Univ. Press. (Juvenile library.)
Front. port., illus. Orig. brown cloth. v.g. in d.w.
¶With facsimile reproductions of Mrs Sherwood’s
‘The Little Woodman and his Dog Caesar’ and
‘Soffrona and her Cat Muff’, and bibliography.
1974 £15
MOTHER SHIPTON
668. (SHIPTON, Ursula) HARRISON, William H.
Mother Shipton Investigated.
The result of
critical examination in the British Museum
Library, of the literature relating to the Yorkshire
sibyl. Sm. 4to. W.H. Harrison. Front., illus.
Orig. black cloth; sl. marked & rubbed. 64pp.
1881 £30
ENGLISH BROADSIDE BALLADS
COLLECTION
669. SMITH, John Russell.
A Catalogue of an
Unique Collection of Ancient English Broadside
Ballads, printed entirely in black letter. On
sale by John Russell Smith. (C. Whittingham,
Chiswick Press.) Half title: ‘Black letter ballads’,
colophon leaf, 20pp John Grant, Edinburgh
catalogue c.1885(?) bound in at end. Half dark
blue roan; spine rubbed & chipped at head.
1856 £35
670. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN
KNOWLEDGE. A Chapter in English Church
History: being the Minutes of the S.P.C.K. for
the years 1698-1704, together with abstracts of
correspondents’ letters during part of the same
period. Ed. by Edmund McClure. S.P.C.K. Fold.
front. Dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt, bevelled
boards; a little rubbed & marked.
¶P.73 & 80 with corrected copy laid down.
1888 £35
ANNUAL REPORT
671. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN
KNOWLEDGE. Report. 1900. S.P.C.K. Orig.
green wraps, printed in brown; sl. dusted.
¶A substantial 560pp including lists
members and a full list of publications.
[1901] of
£25
672. SOHO FAIR, 1955. Poetry of the Soho Festival
1955. (Poetry broadsheet.) Soho Association.
Illus. cover. Two long folded sheets in pink & blue.
¶Poets include Bernard Kops, Dannie Abse, Alan
Brownjohn, Jon Silkin, &c. Also advertising
‘Nimbus’ produced by the Halcyon Press.
1955 £30
673. SOTHEBY MAK VAN WAAY. The Van Venn
Collection of Children’s Books and Juvenilia.
Part 3 comprising Catchpenny Prints, Table
Games, Writing Sheets and Scrapbooks, which
will be sold at auction ... 28th November, 1984
... Amsterdam: Sotheby’s. Illus. Orig. green
printed wraps.
¶The work of continental printers. With price
list in Dutch guilders.
1984 £10
674. SOTHEBYS. Catalogue of Broadsides, Posters,
Pamphlets and other printed ephemera from
the celebrated collection formed by Sir Thomas
Phillipps ... which will be sold by auction ... Friday,
28th November, 1975 ... Sotheby’s. Plates, illus.
Orig. blue printed wraps sl. faded. 86pp.
¶A fascinating collection, with inserted
estimate sheet.
1975 £15
675. SOTHEBYS. Catalogue of Extremely Rare and
Valuable Americana,
... Tracts, Pamphlets,
Broadsides, &c. The Property of a Nobleman ...
Which will be sold by auction ... 25th July, 1930,
... Sotheby & Co. Plates, facsims. Orig. green
wraps; sl. sunned. 39pp.
¶The collection of the Marquis of Downshire.
1930 £10
676. SPUFFORD, Margaret. Small Books and
Pleasant Histories:
popular fiction and its
readership in 17th-century England. Methuen.
Half title, plates, illus. Orig. dark grey cloth;
near mint in d.w.
¶With a signed inscription to Victor Neuburg
and an inserted postcard from the Author.
1981 £20
BOOKSELLERS & BOOKBUYERS
677. SPURGEON, Charles Haddon, MANNING,
Samuel & PIKE, G. Holden. Booksellers and
Bookbuyers in Byeways and Highways.
By
C.H. Spurgeon, Samuel Manning and G. Holden
Pike. With a pref. by the Earl of Shaftesbury.
Passmore & Alabaster. 8pp ads. Orig. green pict.
cloth, bevelled boards; mark on leading e.p. v.g.
¶Christian colportage.
1882 £110
678. THOMS, William J. A Chat about Chapbooks.
Pp. 156-59 with 1 illus. in The Antiquary. Vol.
V. no. 28. April 1882. Elliot Stock. Orig. grey
printed wraps; a bit marked.
¶With order form for the facsimile of ‘The Ballade
of the Scottysshe Kynge’ loosely inserted.
1882 £10
679. THOMSON, Robert Stark. The Development of the
Broadside Ballad Trade and its Influence upon the
Transmission of English Folksongs. Typewritten
photocopy reduced to A5 sheets, unbound.
¶Apparently not published.
Ph.D Thesis,
University of Cambridge, July 1974. Including
lists of printers.
1974 £35
CHOSEN BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH
680. TIMES. The Times Broadsheets for Soldiers and
Sailors. Series No. 1-18. (Printed by John Parkinson
Bland at The Times Office.) Paper browning. In the
original envelopes (some with illus.); all variously
browned, chipped or split at folds.
¶Each series or set contains ‘Six selected
passages from great English writers’ at one
penny, with the suggestion that they are enclosed
with letters. BL has 29 sets in all. Sir Walter
Raleigh’s choice of verse and prose passages
is illuminating, and they were later reprinted in
book form. This set is a scarce survival: Series
2-4, 7-18 are unopened; with additional copies
of item nos. 16 & 18 from Series 3. In this set
Series 1-12 have pasted on contents’ slips.
[c.1916-18?] £150
MEXICO
681. TINKER, Edward Larocque.
Corridor &
Calaveras;
with notes and translations by
Americo Paredes. (2nd printing.) Folio. (Austin):
University of Texas. Illus. Orig. yellow printed
boards. v.g. in d.w. 60pp.
¶Mexican broadsides. One of a printing of
1000. Three facsimile American broadsides
printed at the Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown,
N.Y. are loosely inserted.
1961 682. TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Ontario Broadsides, 1793-1893:
exhibition in the Toronto Public
1965. Obl. The Library. Illus.,
Stapled as issued. (20pp.)
£30
A Century of
a typographic
Library, June,
on grey paper.
¶With TLS from Edith Fowke to Leslie Shepard
with his reply 1965 and an article by her ‘A
Sampling of Bawdy Ballads from Ontario’ from
an unidentified periodical.
1965 £10
683. TOSCHI, Paolo. L’Imagerie Populaire Italienne,
du XVe siècle au XXe siècle; adaptation de
Claude Noël. Folio. Paris: Editions des Deux
Mondes. Half title, illus., facsims, some col.
Orig. vellum spine, gilt illus. boards. v.g. in sl.
worn slipcase.
¶Copy no. 332 of 1950.
1964 £40
TUER, Andrew W.
See also item 549.
CUTS
684. 1,000 Quaint Cuts from books of other days,
including amusing illustrations from children’s
story books, fables, chap-books, &c. ... from
original wooden blocks belonging to the
Leadenhall Press; edited by Andrew W. Tuer.
Folio. Reissued. Detroit: Singing Tree Press.
Half title, front., facsims. Orig. white printed
cloth. v.g.
¶A good quality reprint of the 1886 edition.
Including cuts by Joseph Crawhall.
1968 [1886] £20
685. Old London Street Cries, and the cries of to-day, with
heaps of quaint cuts. Sm. 4to. Field & Tuer, The
Leadenhall Press. Col. front. by Joseph Crawhall,
illus., 7pp ads. Orig. grey marbled boards with
paper labels; spine rubbed & discoloured, leading
hinge chipped at tail, tape ties dusty.
1885 £45
686. Old London Street Cries, ... (Reprinted.) Sm.
4to. Scolar Press. Front., illus., 7pp ads. Orig.
drab pict. wraps; sl. marked.
¶A facsimile reprint of the previous item.
1978 [1885] __________
£5
687. TYTLER, Sarah (Henrietta Keddie) & WATSON,
Jean L. The Songstresses of Scotland. FIRST
EDITION. 2 vols. Strahan & Co. Half titles, 2pp
ads. vol. II, ads slips in each vol.; sl. spotting
in prelims caused by e.ps. Orig. brown cloth by
Burn & Co. v.g. bright copy.
¶An account of ten female Scots poets from
Lady Grisell Baillie, 1665-1746 to Joanna
Baillie, 1762-1851 with examples of their work,
including some songs.
1871 £65
688. VAN VEEN, C.F. Dutch Catchpenny Prints: three
centuries of pictorial broadsides for children.
Tall folio. The Hague: W. Van Hoeve. Col. front.
& illus. (facsims.). Orig. green cloth. Cancelled
booklabel & library stamp. Small University of
Wisconsin Library School stamps, label removed
from following e.p. A good copy in d.w.
1971 £65
689. VICINUS, Martha. Broadsides of the Industrial
North. 4to. Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank
Graham. Illus., facsims. Orig. red cloth imitating
leather. v.g. in sl. torn d.w.
1975 £20
690. VIRGILIUS, the Sorcerer of Rome.
The
Wonderful History of Virgilius the Sorcerer of
Rome; Englished for the first time. David Nutt.
(Mediaeval legends, no. II.) Orig. brown printed
wraps; leading hinge splitting.
¶Medieval tales about the Roman poet Virgil.
1893 £10
691. WALKER, William. Peter Buchan, and other
papers on Scottish and English Ballads and
Songs. Aberdeen: printed by William Smith &
Sons for D. Wyllie & Son. Half title, title in red &
black, plate. Orig. dark green cloth. t.e.g. v.g.
¶Copy 108 of 108 signed with initial. Peter
Buchan, 1790-1854, was a celebrated ballad
collector and publisher.
1915 £65
692. WARD, Philip. Cambridge Street Literature.
Cambridge: Oleander Press. Illus. Orig. light
blue pict. boards. v.g.
¶Loosely inserted TLS from Philip Ward of
the Oleander Press to Leslie Shepard with
photocopy of reply.
1978 £15
693. WATERS, Ivor. Chepstow Street Literature &
Ephemera. Chepstow: Moss Rose Press. Half
title, plates, facsims. Orig. shiny red cloth. FINE
in d.w.
¶With presentation inscription and letter from
the author to Leslie Shepard.
1979 £20
694. WATKINS, James Hutton.
Early Scottish
Ballads. Being a revised paper read at a meeting
of the (Archaeological) Society (of Glasgow), 8th
January, 1866. Printed by James Macnab. Ink
mark on e.p.s Orig. brown cloth wraps with
ms. paper label; a little marked. Gilt stamp of
Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow. 50pp.
1867 £35
CHAPBOOK GOTHIC ROMANCES
695. WATT, William W. Shilling Shockers of the Gothic
School: a study of chapbook gothic romances.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press. (Harvard
honors theses in English, no. 5.) Half title, front.
& plate. Orig. col. patterned paper wraps, printed
label on front; spine sl. splitting.
1932 £25
696. (WATTS, Isaac) WRIGHT, Thomas.
Isaac
Watts and Contemporary Hymn-writers. C.J.
Farncombe & Sons. (Lives of the British hymnwriters, vol. III.) Half title, front. port., plates,
ad. leaf; a little pencil marking, Orig. dark olive
green cloth.
¶See also items 339 & 340.
1914 £35
697. (WEEMS, Mason Locke) LEARY, Lewis. The
Book-Peddling Parson: an account of the life and
works of Mason Locke Weems, patriot, pitchman,
author and purveyor of morality to the citizenry
of the early United States of America. Chapel
Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books. Front. port., plates,
facsims. Blue cloth. d.w.
¶Weems wrote tracts against drinking,
gambling and adultery, &c., & was the
supposed originator of George Washington
refusing to tell a lie.
1984 £15
WEISS, Harry B.
698. Eight Offprints and Extracts of Papers on
Subjects relating to Chapbooks and Popular
Literature, from various periodicals. Most in
card wraps. 9 items from the collection of Leslie
Shepard with a copy of a TL from him to Weiss,
and 2 ad. slips.
¶A Brief History of American Jest Books, 1943;
Early American Chapbooks, 1944; English and
American Valentine Writers, 1939; A Forgotten
Version of Little Red Riding Hood, 1950 (with
Little Red Riding Hood, by H.I. Phillips, 1940);
Hannah More’s Cheap Repository Tracts
in America, 1946; John Norman, engraver,
publisher, bookseller; John Walters, miniaturist
.. 1934. Cream printed wraps, partly split at
spine; Mahlon Day, early New York printer ...
1941; Something about Simple Simon, 1940.
1934-46 £85
PRIVATELY PRINTED
699. American Chapbooks. Trenton, N.J.: privately
printed. Illus. Orig. cream wraps in half beige
buckram. 31pp.
¶With a note by Victor Neuburg that the copy
was presented by the Author in 1951.
1938 £65
700. American Chapbooks, 1722-1842, New York:
New York Public Library.
1945.
BOUND
WITH: Hannah More’s Cheap Repository Tracts
in America, 1946. BOUND WITH: Solomon
King, early New York bookseller and publisher
of children’s books and chapbooks, 1947. Red
cloth boards, grey cloth spine untitled. Signature
of Victor Neuburg, 1951.
¶Reprinted from the Library’s Bulletin, and
including a preliminary checklist of chapbooks.
1945-47 £50
701. American Chapbooks, 1722-1842, New York:
New York Public Library. Stapled; pages sl.
browned, corner of last leaf torn affecting page
number. (19, 1pp.)
1945 £25
702. A Book about Chapbooks: the people’s literature
of bygone times. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Trenton,
N.J.: The Author. (Lithoprinted Ann Arbor:
Edwards Bros.) Illus. Orig. grey wraps, bound
into bi-colour green cloth with printed paper
label on front board.
¶One of 100 copies inscribed by the Author to
Victor Neuburg and with the latter’s bookplate.
With copies of the introduction to the facsimile
reprint of 1969 inserted.
1942 £40
WEISS, Harry B. continued
coloured papers; some old folds.
703. A Book About Chapbooks: ... Folio. (Reprinted
in facsimile.) Hatboro, Penn.: Folklore Associates.
Illus. Reproduced from typescript. Orig. grey cloth.
1969 £35
704. A Brief History of American Jest Books. New
York: New York Public Library. Illus. Stapled.
Bookplate of Frederick Melcher. (19, 3pp.)
¶Reprinted from the Library’s Bulletin.
1943 £20
705. A Catalogue of the American, English, and
Foreign Chapbooks in the New York Public
Library. Photocopied sheets in a folder.
¶A reduced size photocopy of pp.2-34, 105-127,
181-192, 789-805 from the Bulletin of the New
York Public Library, vol. 39. Jan. 1935.
1935 £8
706. A Catalogue of the Chapbooks in the New York
Public Library, compiled by Harry B. Weiss. New
York: the Library. Front. & plate. In orig. buff
printed wraps in blue boards, grey cloth spine
untitled. Signature of Victor Neuburg, 1951. 90pp.
1936 £20
707. Mahlon Day, early New York printer, bookseller
and publisher of children’s books. New York:
New York Public Library, 1941. BOUND WITH:
The Number of Persons and Firms connected
with the Graphic Arts in New York City, 16331820. 1946. BOUND WITH: A Graphic summary
of the Growth of Newspapers in New York and
other states, 1704-1820. 1948. Tables. BOUND
WITH: The Printers and Publishers of children’s
books in New York City, 1698-1830. 1948.
Red cloth boards, grey cloth spine untitled.
Signature of Victor Neuburg, 1952.
1941-48 £60
¶Texts in Welsh & English. Pancakes, bara
brith, brewis, honey beer, &c.
[c.1965?] £10
FOLKSONG SCHOLARSHIP
711. WILGUS, D.K. Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship since 1898. (2nd printing.) New Brunswick,
N.J.: Rutgers University Press. Half title. Orig.
brown cloth. v.g. in d.w.
1959 £15
LAYS OF THE MINE
712. WILSON, Arthur “Dalry”. Mining Lays, Tales
and Folk-lore ... Perth: printed by Petersons
Printing Press. Plates, illus. Orig. red printed
wraps; spine sl. faded.
¶A revised extended version of ‘Lays and tales
of the mines’ 1916 containing a few ballads.
Not in BL or on Copac.
[c.1930?] £35
713. WRIGHT, Richardson. Hawkers and Walkers
in Early America: strolling pedlars, preachers,
lawyers, doctors, players, and others, from the
beginning to the Civil War. New York: Frederick
Ungar Publishing Co. (American classics.)
Front., illus. Orig. grass green cloth. v.g. in sl.
torn d.w.
¶A reprint of the edition of 1927.
1965 £20
YEATS’ BROADSIDE CHARACTERS
714. YEATS, Jack Butler. Broadside Characters:
drawings. Folio. Dublin: Cuala Press. Hand
col. engravings. Unopened in orig. blue buckram
with col. onlay. 11 leaves.
¶No. 268 of 300 copies, with an introduction by
Anne Yeats. See also item 52.
1971 £450
708. Papers ... by Harry B. Weiss, 1912 to 1937.
Trenton, N.J.: privately printed. Stabbed in orig.
cream wraps. 25pp.
1937 £20
709. William Charles, early caricaturist, engraver
and publisher of children’s books, with a list of
works by him in the New York Public Library
... New York: New York Public Library, 1932.
Orig. wraps. BOUND WITH: Joseph Yeager,
early American engraver, publisher of children’s
books, railroad president, 1932. Orig. wraps.
BOUND WITH: A forgotten version of Little Red
Riding Hood with Thomas Nast illustrations.
1950. BOUND WITH: American editions of “Sir
Richard Whittington and his cat”. 1938. Red
cloth boards, grey cloth spine untitled. Signature
of Victor Neuburg, 1952.
1932-50 £60
__________
710. WELSH CRAFTS & POTTERIES, Llangollen.
Welsh Recipes from Llangollen.
Six long
broadsides. Favil Press. Illus, on different
615
LOTTERY TICKETS & ‘PUFFS’
Lotteries are a lucrative way of raising money for
government and private projects, although, as a
form of gambling they attracted - and still attract much moral debate and opposition.
Some of the earliest Italian lotteries were in the
form of tontines (where money subscribed goes to
the last surviving member); in England the most
common form was by the drawing of shares or lots.
The first English lottery was in 1566-69;
the
practice began in earnest in 1694 to raise money for
the war with France. Lotteries took various forms
but required authorization by Act of Parliament
for public and private projects to be legal. Tickets
were sold originally by stockbrokers, but all kinds
of traders later participated; syndicates contracted
for the tickets and sold them from premises called
State Lottery Offices.
Various dubious selling
activities brought lotteries into disrepute and the
1823 Act marked the end of State lotteries until
their modern manifestation in 1994.
Offered here is a fine collection of late 18th & early
19th century ephemera relating to lotteries, largely
formed by A. & F. Renier. Tickets were usually
thrown away and are rarer than the attractive
advertisements or ‘puffs’ which often contain
satirical engravings and catchy verses. From 181426 a number of puffs contain illustrations by George
Cruikshank, (see items 783, 786, 798-801, 817,
838, 840, 845, 864, 876 & 896).
Here, the tickets, shared tickets and puffs are
presented in the order established by Geoffrey L.
Grant in English State Lotteries, 1694-1826: a
history and collectors’ guide ... The Author, 2001.
The sequence of lotteries is dictated by the year in
which the Act of Parliament was passed, followed
by the date of the actual drawing of one or more
lotteries under the Act, sometimes over several
years. Lotteries established by Private Acts are
interspersed at the relevant dates.
At the end of the catalogue are general histories
and a few related items, together with an index of
promoters and agents.
BRITISH LOTTERIES
1751
715. TICKET-SHARES. Engraved one third share of a
ticket in the 1751 Lottery, No. 46885. Sl. browned,
creased and cropped left side.
¶GL 34. Based on South Sea Annuities. With No. 50 in
lower left hand corner, and ‘Ten Thousand Pounds, Principal
Mo{ }’ written at foot. 5% was deducted from any winnings.
1751 £250 †
1769
715
716. TICKET. Blank engraved ticket for the 1769 Lottery.
¶GL 49: the first of the standard lotteries introduced
by Lord North as Chancellor of the Exchequer. With 3
half blank tickets.
1769 £50 †
1771
717. RESULTS. HAZARD & CO. Report on result of 1771
Lottery drawn on 19th November(?) and five following
days. Folded half sheet, further folded for delivery; sl.
dusted with traces of two red wax seals, one stab hole.
716
¶GL 51. Not in ESTC. A printed notice completed in
manuscript, Decr 19, 1771. Ticket No. 38,238 ‘was this
day drawn a blank’. The letter is addressed to Mess
Petr. & Jos Lynch at Mr Sim Traviers, Kings Armes
Yard, Coleman St. (London).
1771 £225
1774
718. TICKET. Engraved indented ticket, No. 9,747 for
1774 signed by J. Warren a cashier at the Bank of
England. Sl. creased.
¶GL 53. In ink on verso ‘The Property of El: Cr: E.H.: & S.C.’.
1774 £200 †
1786
718
719. TICKET. Engraved indented ticket, No. 32,523 for the
Lottery for 1786, signed by J. Orme, a cashier at the
Bank of England. Old folds.
¶GL 67, drawn on 12th February 1787.
1786 [1787] £200 †
1791(?)
UNLICENSED OFFICES
720. PUFFS. Lottery. n.p. A 2pp statement, sl. torn in
left margin.
¶GL 73(?)Not recorded in ESTC. The anonymous
author attacks the unlicensed lottery offices of Shergold
& Co. and Margray who sold “chances” rather than
legal shares. He refers to the prosecution of a morning
paper, probably The World for January 29, 1791 in
Michaelmas 1791 and Lord Kenyon’s judgment of
15th November declaring misleading advertisements
illegal. This success, it is avowed, will cause the price
of genuine tickets to rise to at least 18 guineas.
[1792] £180
1793
721. PUFFS. English Lottery Tickets. n.p. A single sheet folded
as issued with piece torn from inner blank margin. (4pp.)
¶GL 75, drawn on 17th February 1794. An advertisement, not recorded on Copac. The long repetitive text
argues for buying tickets while available at 16 guineas
in order to win £30,000. Wrongly dated 1792 in ink.
[1793] 720
£150
1797
British Tontine
722. TICKET.
Printed receipt for the British Tontine
completed in ms.
¶W. Webb the agent for the British Tontine, altered
in ink to New British Tontine, issued a receipt for
demands on No. 4440 to 25th December (altered from
September). The ticket is headed Mr Seraphim Bayley.
A tontine is a form of gambling in which the proceeds
invested go to the last surviving member of the scheme.
1797 £125 †
723. TICKET. Engraved ticket No. 48,943 for the Lottery
for 1797, signed by C. Hecks, a cashier at the Bank of
England. Indenting trimmed.
¶GL 79, drawn from 26 February 1798. Name trimmed
on verso possibly J. Arden.
1797 [1798] £150 †
724. TICKET-SHARES. Engraved indented one sixteenth share
of a ticket in the 1797 Lottery, No. 21,153. Sl. creased.
723
¶GL 79, drawn from 26 February 1798. Signed by the
contractor Richardson Goodluck & Co. with blind stamp
and their inked stamp on verso. Additional number S3007.
1797 [1798] £180 †
1797 continued
725. TICKET-SHARES. Engraved indented one sixteenth
share of a ticket in the 1797 Lottery, No. 51,833. Sl.
creased.
¶GL 79, drawn from 26 February 1798. Signed by
the contractor Richardson Goodluck & Co. with blind
stamp and their inked stamp on verso. Additional
number S2973.
1797 [1798] £180 †
1801 - Diamond Lottery
725
726. TICKET.
Ticket for Sir George Pigot’s Diamond
Lottery. Engraved indented ticket with ink no. 210,
London 1800. Sl. browned with sm. tear from right
margin, hole caused by ink & marks from laying down
at corners.
¶GL 85: a private lottery. The ticket is signed ‘George
Pigot’ (though Sir George had died in 1777 & the
lottery was conducted by Robert Hugh & Margaret
Pigot), with note ‘Prize mg 488(?) March: 2. 1801’ and
cost 2 guineas. On the verso is the crowned stamp
of the Lottery contractor Bish, and the name of John
Hutton, Houghton le Spring, Durham. The total raised
by the lottery was £23,998.16.0, but the diamond
sold at Christies in May 1802 for 9,500 guineas.
1801 £150 †
1803 - First Lottery
727. TICKETS Engraved ticket No. 20,760 for the First
Lottery for 1803, signed by F. Hensall or Kensall, a
cashier at the Bank of England. Indenting trimmed.
¶GL 89, drawn on 5th September. On verso ‘Day of
Drawin[g] for B... ... ... J. Cundy’ also J. Arden.
1803 727
£75 †
1803 - Second Lottery
728. PUFFS.
Single sheet handbill for Thomas Bish
advertising the Second Lottery for 1803. Evans &
Ruffy. Stab holes; sl. browned, one crease.
¶GL 90. Grant gives the date of drawing as 13th
December, but the bill itself shows that the draws ran
from 9th January to 4th February 1804.
1803 [1804] £40
1803 - Third Lottery
729. PUFFS. Three single sheets of advertisements for the
Third Lottery for 1803.
¶GL 91, drawn on 23rd April 1804. a) Handbill for
Thomas Bish printed by James Whiting, b) 2pp ad. for
‘the State Lottery’, Richardson, Goodluck & Co. printed
by Evans & Ruffy and c) J. Branscomb & Co. ‘Imperial
State Lottery’ stabbed sheet, 2pp by the same printer.
The sheet bears a large illustration of a Bluecoat
Boy, who made the draw, within a round wreath
with values of prizes. On the verso is a full list of
Branscomb’s licensed offices in England and Scotland.
1804 £65
1804 - First Lottery
730. TICKET. Engraved ticket No. 19,412 for the First
Lottery for 1804, signed by C.C. Tisseau(?) a cashier at
the Bank of England. Indenting trimmed.
¶GL 92, drawn on 24th September. On verso ‘Jo Sint
Leger(?) £18-6’.
729
1804 £65 †
1804 - Second Lottery
731. TICKET - SHARE. Engraved half share of a ticket in
the Second Lottery for 1804, No. 21,405. Printed in
red; indenture sl. trimmed, ink spots.
¶GL 93, drawn on 28th January 1805. Signed by the contractor Branscombe & Co., with additional number 841.
1804 [1805] £65 †
732. PUFFS. Single sheet advertisement for the Second
Lottery for 1804 issued by F. Hall & Co. Evans &
Ruffy, printers. Sm. hole affecting one figure, corner
torn affecting imprint, traces of stab holes.
¶GL 93, drawn on 28th January 1805.
The
advertisement reuses the circular wreath used in
1804 (see item 729) without the central Bluecoat Boy.
Hall the contractor is not listed by Grant.
[1805] £25
1804 - Third Lottery
733. TICKET - SHARE. Engraved one eighth share of
a ticket in the Third Lottery for 1804, No. 1,828.
Indenture trimmed.
¶GL 94, drawn from 13th May 1805. Signed by the
contractor T. Bish with blind stamp and additional
number L5376. On verso ‘Undrawn Fifth day R.
Sherman’ with another note. This suggests a sale
after the 10 days of drawing had started.
1804 [1805] 732
£50 †
ADVERTISING JINGLES
734. PUFFS. Four advertisements for the Third Lottery for
1804, issued by Thomas Bish. Three are printed by
Whiting. One is cropped at edges.
¶GL 94, drawn on 13th May 1805. The text of the
advertisements is the same with minor typographical
variants, but the interest lies in the four different ‘New
Lottery Songs’, or poems printed on the verso. All
refer to Bish, some to the date and prizes, entitled:
The Fortunate Cobler, Fortune’s Anglers, and A New
Lottery Song (2 completely different poems).
1805 £55
1805 - Shakespeare Lottery
735. PROSPECTUS. Plan of the Shakspeare Lottery, ...
Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. Sl. spotted & creased at
edges. Disbound. 4pp.
¶GL 95. Dated April 5, 1804. BL & V&A Libraries
only on Copac. Alderman John Boydell and his
nephew Josiah obtained an Act of Parliament to
dispose of the paintings, &c. in the Shakspeare
Gallery in Pall Mall. This plan lists the prizes in
order of drawing, on 30th September, 1805: Pictures
framed, Drawings, Prints & books with prints, Milton
Drawings (by Westall), &c.
735
1804 £65
736. TICKET.
Engraved indented ticket in Boydell’s
Shakspeare Lottery for 1804-5, No. 8,577. Sl. creased.
¶GL 95, drawn on 28th January 1805, a private
lottery to dispose of Alderman Boydell’s Gallery of
Shakespeare Paintings, &c. Tickets cost 3 guineas
and blanks received a print. This has stamped
signature of John & Josiah Boydell, and on verso
a partially legible account possibly listing prints,
amounting to six guineas.
736
1805 £50 †
1805 - First Lottery
737. TICKET - SHARE. Engraved indented one eighth
share of a ticket in the First Lottery for 1805, No.
3,195. Minor marginal tears.
¶GL 96, drawn on 30th September 1805. Signed by the
contractor Thomas Hornsby of 26 Cornhill with blind
stamp, red ink stamp on verso and additional number 771.
1805 £40 †
1805 - Third Lottery
738. PUFFS. Handbill advertisement for the Third Lottery
for 1805 issued by Richardson Goodluck & Co.
Printed in red; sm. hole not affecting text. Disbound.
¶GL 99, drawn on 12th May 1806.
1806 £30
1806 - First Lottery
739. PUFFS. Two advertisements for the First Lottery of
1806 issued by Richardson Goodluck & Co. One
printed in red, with spot & trimmed at tail, and one in
black, each 2pp. Disbound.
¶GL 100, drawn on 13th October 1806.
1806 £40
1806 - Second Lottery
740
740. PUFFS. Three advertisements for the Second Lottery
for 1806. One issued by Richardson Goodluck & Co.
is a handbill printed in red, printed by Evans & Ruffy.
Disbound.
¶GL 101, drawn on 13th January 1807. The other
advertisements are a small slip headed ‘Philosophy’
printed by James Whiting, suggesting the lottery as a
cure for poverty; and a later slip advertising the drawing
on 22nd January with a verse below a woodblock of a
father with two children, later reused (see item 754).
1807 £70
1806 - Third Lottery
741. TICKET - SHARE. Engraved indented one sixteenth
share of a ticket in the Third Lottery for 1806, No.
16,777. Sl. browned at left & creased.
¶GL 102, drawn on 14th April 1807. Signed by C.
Jackson for Branscomb & Co. with blind stamp, and
additional number 41491.
1806 [1807] £50 †
742. PUFFS. Advertisement issued by Richardson Goodluck & Co. for the Third Lottery for 1806. Printed by
Evans & Ruffy. Imprint cropped. Disbound.
¶GL 102, drawn on 14th April 1807.
printed in black and the verso in red.
1807 The recto is
£25
1806 - Fourth Lottery
743. TICKET - SHARE. Engraved indented one eighth
share of a ticket in the Fourth Lottery for 1806, No.
19,235. Printed in red; sl. torn without loss.
¶GL 103, drawn on 14th July 1807. Signed by
Thomas Hornsby with blind stamp on verso, and
additional number 450.
1806 [1807] £50 †
744. PUFFS. Handbill advertisement for the Fourth Lottery
for 1806 issued by Brooke & Co. Printed by Evans &
Ruffy. Disbound.
¶GL 103, drawn on 14th July 1807.
742
1807 £25
1807 - First Lottery
745. TICKET. Engraved indented ticket, No. 16,609 for
the First Lottery for 1807, signed by W(?) Johnson,
a cashier at the Bank of England. Ink stained &
trimmed close.
¶GL 104, drawn on 20th October.
1807 £30 †
‘THE NEW PLAN’
746. PUFFS. Advertisement ‘Explanation of the New Plan
for the Lottery, which begins drawing 20th October,
1807’ issued by J. Warner. Disbound. 2pp.
¶GL 104. There was a Supplementary Lottery on 19th
November. ‘J. Warner recommends an early Purchase,
as he is well informed tickets and shares will rise
considerably.’
1807 £20
1807 - Second Lottery
747. PUFFS. Six variant advertisement slips issued by
Thomas Bish for the Second Lottery for 1807. Printed
by Whiting; or Evans & Ruffy. Each 2pp; one torn in
left margin affecting a few letters, one dusted.
749
¶GL 105, drawn on 8th March 1808.
Each
advertisement has a long poem on verso extolling
Bish’s firm. Three slips advertise the 8th March
draw, one the third day’s draw on 22nd March and
two the fourth day on 29th March. All mention the
City of London lottery, (see item 753) to be drawn on
26th April. The poems are: Bish’s Arithmetic, by Peter
Practice; Fortune’s First Floor, by Solomon Scribble;
Money and the Mariner’s Compass, by Sam Spritsail;
Luck and the Lottery, by Michael Metre.
1808 £45
1807 - Third Lottery
748. PUFFS. Advertisements for the Third Lottery for 1807.
Approx. 9cm wide with small block celebrating winning.
¶GL 106, drawn on 28th June 1808. Issued by the
firm Swift & Co. A misprinted copy with date line in
a mess; instead of ‘28th of June, 1808’ the line reads
‘29th of June, 5(inverted) 10 6(inverted).
1808 750
£25
749. PUFFS. Advertisements for the Third Lottery for 1807.
Approx. 9cm wide with small block celebrating winning.
¶GL 106, drawn on 28th June 1808. Issued by the
firm Hornsby & Co.
1808 £30
750. PUFFS. Six illustrated advertisements, mostly handbills, for the Third Lottery for 1807, most printed by
Gye & Balne. Some browned at edges or creased or
with minor tears.
¶GL 106, drawn on 28th June 1808. The illustrations
depict squat jolly figures, and were issued by Bish,
Branscomb, Hodges and Richardson Goodluck.
1808 £60
751. PUFFS. Six themed advertisements for the Third Lottery
for 1807. Slips about 9cm wide headed by different
blocks celebrating winning in contemporary situations.
¶GL 106, drawn on 28th June 1808. Issued by the firms
Sir J. Branscomb & Co., Hodges & Co. (2), Hornsby &
Co., Richardson, Goodluck, & Co., Swift & Co.
751
1808 £70
1807 - Third Lottery continued
752. PUFFS. Five themed advertisements for the Third
Lottery for 1807. Slips about 9cm wide headed
by different small blocks celebrating winning in
contemporary situations.
¶GL 106, drawn on 28th June 1808. Issued by the
firms Sir J. Branscomb & Co., Hodges & Co., Hornsby
& Co., Richardson, Goodluck, & Co., Swift & Co.
1808 £60
1807 - City of London Lottery
BUILDINGS AT TEMPLE BAR & SNOW HILL
753. TICKET. Ticket in the First City of London Lottery dated
1806. Engraved indented ticket with view of buildings,
no. 15,689, signed by Newman Knowlys, the Trustee.
The Lord Mayor Shaw’s name is included. Sl. creased.
¶GL 107: a private lottery. “Freehold 1st rate
buildings at Temple Bar & Snow Hill” put up by
speculative builders. Tickets were advertised at
£17.19s., and the lottery, listed by grant in 1807 was
drawn on 26th April 1808. The design was engraved
by V. Woodthorpe, Fetter Lane.
1806 [1808] 754
£120 †
TRADE VERSES
754. PUFFS. Eighteen illustrated advertisement slips for
the First City of London Lottery. Various printers.
(Plus one defective, The Basket Women).
¶GL 107, drawn on 26th April 1808. The c.9cm slips
each bear an advertisement depicting the Grand
Hotel in Skinner Street and are issued by various
major London contractors. The versos bear a fairly
crude c.8cm block of a well known character in front
of a house with a verse below extolling the lottery.
Characters are The Hairdresser (3 variants), The Hay
Maker (2 variants), The Hostess (3 variants & see
below), The Irish Basket Woman (variant The Basket
Woman has half block torn away), The Jew, The
Milliner, The Negro, The Parent, Sir John Fore-thought,
The Tradesman, The Volunteer, The Waggoner, and
(untitled) Blind Fortune standing on a globe. The
Parent woodcut which is neatly hand coloured was
originally issued in 1807 (see item 740).
[1808] £180
LEEDS AGENT
755. PUFFS. Illustrated advertisement slip for the First
City of London Lottery. Sl. trimmed.
¶GL 107, drawn on 26th April 1808. The c.9cm slip
bears an advertisement depicting the Grand Hotel
in Skinner Street, with a variant of ‘The Hostess’
character on the verso, and is issued by G. Wright, jun.,
printer, Leeds as agent for Richardson, Goodluck, & Co.
[1808] 756
£25
GRAND HOTEL
756. PUFFS. Three advertisements for the First City of
London Lottery.
¶GL 107, drawn on 26th April 1808. Two variant 2pp
adverts issued by Brooke & Co., printed by Evans &
Ruffy, one on yellow paper. Both carry a large woodcut
of the Grand Hotel in Skinner Street which was the
main prize. The other small slip was printed by James
Whiting but has no publisher’s name. It is headed
‘Speculation’. A sixteenth share costs 11 shillings.
1808 £50
1808 - First Lottery
757. PUFFS. Three advertisements for the First Lottery for
1808. Each 2pp.
¶GL 108, drawn on 13th December 1808. Issued by
Thomas Bish with poem ‘Bish’s Alphabet’ by Q in the
corner on verso, printed by Gye & Balne; William
Carter with poem ‘Huzza!! for Carter, Charing-Cross’;
and by Swift & Co.
1808 £45
1808 - Second Lottery
758. PUFFS. Advertisement handbill for the Second Lottery
for 1808 issued by Richardson, Goodluck, & Co. n.p.
Illus. Trimmed at tail affecting last line.
¶GL 109, drawn on 12th April 1809. The large
illustration depicts blind Justice and Fortune on either
side of a circular cartouche.
[1809] £20
1808 - Third Lottery
759. PUFFS. Small advertisement for the Third Lottery for
1808 issued by Thomas Bish. n.p. 2pp.
¶GL 110, drawn on 20th October 1809. On the verso
is the poem ‘All Fours’ by Henry Hoyle, jun. This may
have been the first one day lottery.
1809 758
£20
1809 - First Lottery
760. TICKET - SHARE. Engraved indented one quarter
share of a ticket in the First Lottery for 1809, No. 3,143.
¶GL 111. drawn on 14th February 1810. Signed by
Thomas Hornsby with blind stamp, and additional
number 573 A series. ‘Blank’ is added in ink.
1809 [1810] £40 †
761. PUFFS. Eleven advertisements for the First Lottery for
1809. Some browned, or creased, or with minor tears.
¶GL 111, drawn on 14th February 1810. Seven
unusually tall Thomas Bish variant advertisements
have poems on verso: Bish, and his Blue Coat
Boys, Bish’s Birth-day, A New Valentine for Ladies,
The Persian Ambassador, Sandy’s Valentine, and
Valentine’s Day.
A Branscomb advert is dated
January 1810 with on verso ‘A New song, called
One Day!!’ and three unattributed horizontal slips
printed by Gye & Balne reflect concerns of the day
‘Buonaparte’s Divorce’, ‘Johanna Southcott’ and
‘Magna Charta and The Bill of Rights’ (discussed in
the case of Sir Francis Burdett).
1810 £150
NORWICH GOLDSMITHS
762. PUFFS. A variant of the Thomas Bish advertisement
for the First Lottery for 1809 issued by Dunham &
Yallop, goldsmiths, Norwich. Tall slip; sl. browned,
creased & chipped at edges. 2pp.
¶GL 111, drawn on 14th February 1810. On the verso is
a poem ‘Valentine’s Day, at Norwich’ by Will, the Weaver.
A footnote notes that shares in some of the prizes in the
last lottery were sold by Dunham and Yallop.
1810 761
£40
ANTI-LOTTERY HANDBILL
763. PUFFS. ‘I Hate Lying! An Anti-Lottery Handbill
against the First Lottery for 1809. Printed by T.
Sabine. Sl. creased.
¶GL 111, drawn on 14th Februiary 1810. The bill
points out the low chances and returns of the lottery.
1809 - First Lottery continued
There are 15,000 blanks and only 5,000 prizes, and of
these most are only £15, whereas the sixteenth shares
being sold at £1.10s.6d make one ticket cost £24.8s.
[1809] £65
1809 - Second Lottery
764. PUFFS. Nine advertisements for the Second Lottery
for 1809. One stained & creased, one with traces of
laying down causing torn corners, one sl. trimmed.
767
¶GL 112, drawn on 8th June 1810. Three Thomas
Bish advertisements, one on pink paper and two with
songs ‘B.C.Y. by S.Y.Z. and ‘The Persian Ambassador’
on verso; the rest unassigned. One sets out the New
Plan, one has a poem ‘Great News’ on verso and four
are small format slips, headed: Curious Mistake,
Julius Caesar and May, with 2pp Witty Excuse
containing an anecdote about a gallows.
1810 £65
TWO-COLOUR
765. PUFFS. Two block colour-printed advertisements
for the Second Lottery for 1809. One sl. creased &
dusted, one browned.
¶GL 112, drawn on 8th June 1810. Different style
advertisements by Branscomb & Co. printed by Evans
& Ruffy and by Richardson, Goodluck & Co. each with
partial red block-printed colouring.
1810 £40
1809 - Third Lottery
766. TICKET. Engraved indented ticket no. 2,710 series B
for the Third Lottery for 1809, signed by J. De Marieu(?)
a cashier at the Bank of England. Printed in red.
¶GL 113, drawn on 19th October, 1810 which is added in
ink, with the name of the owner Lt Col. Fischer. Fischer’s
name also occurs on the verso with the sum £22.15s.
1809 [1810] £35 †
767. TICKET - SHARE. Engraved indented one sixteenth
share of a ticket in the Third Lottery for 1809, No. 750,
Class C. Printed in blue.
¶GL 113, drawn on 19th October, 1810. Signed by J.
Tonge for Branscomb & Co., with additional number
6359 (altered from 8) 0, and blind stamp.
1809 [1810] £50 †
768. PUFFS. Five advertisements for the Third Lottery for
1809. One stabbed in margin, one frayed at edges.
¶GL 113, drawn on 19th October 1810. Two 2pp
Thomas Bish advertisements with poems ‘London and
the Lottery’ printed in red, and ‘Have at a Venture; or,
The paradox explained’; one for Edward Eyton printed
on grey paper with engraved blocks, one depicting
money; one for Hornsby & Co. printed on the recto of
blue wrapper paper with periodical advertisement on
verso; and one for Richardson, Goodluck & Co.
768
1810 £55
‘THE FATE OF YOUR NUMBER’
769. RESULTS. BISH, Thomas. Report on result of 3rd
1809 Lottery. Folded half sheet, sent through the
post. Tear caused by removal of red wax seal.
¶GL 113. A printed notice, whilst advertising future
lotteries, announces the result of the draw on 19th
October 1810. No. 280 has won £50, No. 2420 has
drawn a blank. The letter is addressed to The Revd
Geo: Evans, Pembroke College, Oxford.
1810 £40
1810 - Second City of London Lottery
770. PUFFS. Advertisement for the Second City of London
Lottery.Printed by Gye & Balne.
¶GL 114, drawn on 14th of a month not stated,
probably February, with the State Lottery. The 22 lots
of City properties (mainly in Skinner Street & Pickett
Street, Temple Bar) are listed on the verso of this
advertisement with the names of the Trustees; only
the addresses of the contractor’s offices are given.
[1810] £20
1810 - Third City of London Lottery
771. PUFFS. Advertisement for the Third and Last City of
London Lottery, issued by Hornsby & Co. Stab holes
with sl. tear in margin.
¶GL 115, drawn on 4th December 1810. A large
woodblock depicts ‘One of the Grand Prizes in PickettStreet’. The certificate of valuation of the properties is
dated Aug. 24, 1809.
[1810] £30
1810 - First Lottery
‘FOR KING & COUNTRY’
772. PUFFS. Advertisement for the Second Lottery for
1810. Printed by James Whiting.
771
¶GL 117, drawn on 4th June 1811, the King’s
birthday. With no publisher, but with a poem ‘The
Philosopher’s Stone’ by an Alchymist on the verso.
[1811] £25
1810 - Fourth Lottery
IN RED & BLACK
773. PUFFS. Advertisement for the Fourth Lottery for
1810,. Printed by Gye & Balne. Printed in red &
black, issued by Thomas Bish.
¶GL 119, drawn on 19th November 1811, and known
as the Little State Lottery.
[1811] £35
1811 - Second Lottery
774. PUFFS. Two different advertisements for the Second
Lottery for 1811 issued by Swift & Co., one printed by
G. Smeeton. Creased. Each 2pp.
¶GL 121, drawn on 18th February 1812. Each has
on verso the poem ‘Moore’s Prophecies fulfilled; ...’.
Written by Paddy O’Liffey.
[1812] £30
1811 - Fourth Lottery
THE REGENT’S BRIDGE
775. PUFFS. Two advertisements for the Fourth Lottery
for 1811. Both printed by Evans & Ruffy. Each 2pp.
¶GL 123, drawn on 4th June 1812.
The first
advertisement for the contractor Pidding & Co. has
a ‘House that Jack Built’ theme, based on Pidding’s
premises, pictured, once occupied by Thomas Guy.
The text notes that Mrs Parker who played Columbine
in the Covent Garden pantomime had had a winning
share in a recent £20,000 prize. The other anonymous
advertisement is a poem celebrating (with illustration)
‘The Regent’s Bridge’; renamed Vauxhall, the bridge
had begun life in 1811 as a stone structure, but was
redesigned in 1813 in steel. The advertisement on the
verso is defectively printed, possibly lacking the first
third of the text.
775
[1812] £30
1811 - Fifth Lottery
‘EYTON’S TRULY FORTUNATE OFFICES’
776. PUFFS. Advertisement imitating ticket for the Fifth
Lottery for 1811 to be drawn on 8th September, issued
by the contractor Edward Eyton. Sl. torn & marked
at one edge.
¶GL 124, drawn on 8th September 1812. Eyton had
been a partner in Branscomb’s before opening his own
office in 1810.
776
[1812] £25
‘BLANKS TURN’D PRIZES’
777. PUFFS. Two advertisements for the Fifth Lottery for 1811.
¶GL 124, drawn on 8th September 1812. A Thomas
Bish handbill, creased & sl. damaged at one corner,
bears a poem ‘Bish’s New Scheme; or, Blanks turn’d
prizes’; and a slip printed by James Whiting headed
‘Glorious Victory’.
1812 £30
1811 - Sixth Lottery
778. TICKET - SHARE. Printed indented one sixteenth
share of a ticket in the Sixth Lottery for 1811, No. 3,373,
Class A. Printed in blue, including engraved blocks.
¶GL 125, drawn on 20th October 1812. Signed by
the contractor Thomas Bish with additional number
X1083, and blind stamp.
1811 778
£40 †
1812 - First Lottery
779. PUFFS. Four advertisements for the First Lottery for
1812. Some creased & dusted.
¶GL 126, drawn on 14th & 15th January, 1813. The
Thomas Bish slip has on verso the poem: ‘New Lottery
and Old Mode of Drawing’. Three Edward Eyton slips
have the poems: ‘Giles Gumble’s Journey to London’,
‘A New Year’s Gift’ and ‘Wholesome Advice; or, A cure
for the heart-ache’.
1813 £30
1812 - Second Lottery
780. TICKET - SHARE. Printed indented one sixteenth
share of a ticket in the Second Lottery for 1812.
Printed in red & black with engraved blocks.
¶GL 127, drawn on 17th & 18th February 1813. Signed
by the contractor Thomas Bish with additional number
E 8270 and blind stamp. ‘Blank’ written on verso.
1812 [1813] £50 †
1812 - Third Lottery
781. TICKET - SHARE. Printed indented one sixteenth
share of a ticket in the Third Lottery for 1812, No.
5,335. Printed in red & grey with engraved blocks.
¶GL 128, drawn on 6th May 1813. Signed by the
contractor James Pidding, with the additional number
C3163 and blind stamp. With ink note on verso
‘Undrawn First day JP’.
1812 [1813] 781
£60 †
1813 - First Lottery
782. TICKET - SHARE. Printed indented one sixteenth
share of a ticket in the First Lottery for 1813, No.
8,574. Printed in red & blue with engraved blocks;
tears without loss, & early repair to split along old fold.
¶GL 131, drawn on on 14th postponed to 18th January
1814 (and just possibly from the lottery a year earlier
1813 - First Lottery continued
GL 126). Signed by J. Berry for Branscomb & Self,
with additional number C7228 and blind stamp.
‘Blank’ in pencil on verso which also has printed
advertisement.
1813 [1814] £50 †
THEATRICAL CHARACTERS
783. PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George) Twelve Twelfth Night
style Theatrical characters issued as advertisements
for the First Lottery for 1813. 2 conjoined.
¶GL 131, drawn on 14th postponed to 18th January
1814 (and just possibly from the lottery a year
earlier GL 126). The figure’s name and play is given,
sometimes with a quotation and a short verse (4
lacking text, trimmed). Cohn 1618, 1608, 1616, 1620,
1631, 1614, 1607, 1613, 1653, & 3 not in Cohn.
[1814] £250
1813 - Thornton’s Royal Botanical Lottery
784. PUFFS.
Two single sheet advertisements for Dr
Robert Thornton’s Royal Botanical Lottery, 1813. One
printed by Evans & Ruffy.
783
¶GL 137. Thornton’s private lottery was to be drawn
‘before the 4th of June, 1812’ and then ‘early in
the season with the State Lottery’. Thornton had
commissioned paintings and drawings to illustrate
his expensive works, and wished to dispose of the
remainder. The advertisements are ‘Address to the
Public’ 2pp. listing commendations of the works, 180711; and a sheet headed ‘Royal Botanical Lottery’ on
verso with an engraving of the Temple of Flora at head
of recto setting out the lottery prizes. Grant does not
give the actual date of drawing.
[1813] £45
1814 - Second Lottery
785. TICKET - SHARE. Printed one quarter share in
a ticket in the Second Lottery for 1814, No. 1,977.
Printed in red & black with engraved blocks. Indent
cut in fact straight.
¶GL 139, drawn on 18th January 1815. Signed for
the contractor Swift & Co. with the additional number
B1057 and blind stamp. Ink note on verso ‘Purchased
Jany 17 - Between B.B. & J.B.’.
785
1814 [1815] £50 †
TOM JONES
786. PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George) Two conjoined
advertisements for the Second Lottery for 1814.
¶GL 139, drawn on 18th January 1815. Two Twelfth
Night style figures, each with a verse and a general
lottery advertisement, taken from Henry Fielding’s
novel ‘Tom Jones’: Tom Jones and Squire Western.
Other similar figures were used in 1812, 1817, &c.
Cohn 1517, 1520.
[1815] £35
1814 - Fifth Lottery
787. PUFFS. Advertisement handbill for the Fifth Lottery for
1814 issued by Richardson, Goodluck & Co. Printed in
red. Sl. creased & torn at tail affecting last line.
¶GL 143, drawn on 24th August 1815. The first half
of the bill celebrates prizes drawn for Richardson’s
customers in the previous lottery on 19th & 27th July.
786
1815 £20
1815 - First Lottery
788. TICKET - SHARE. Printed one sixteenth share
of a ticket in the First Lottery for 1815, issued by
Richardson, Goodluck & Co. No. 8,219, Class B.
Printed in red and black with engraved blocks. Indent
cut is in fact straight.
¶GL 144, drawn on 7th November 1815. Not signed
unless by the capital ‘B’ by the contractor Bish at
4, Cornhill, and bearing advertisements. With the
additional number D10669 and blind stamp.
1815 £45 †
NEWCASTLE ACROSTIC
789. PUFFS. Buonaparteana. (Advertisement for the First
Lottery for 1815.) Newcastle: printed by E. Humble.
Advertisement slip, printed on grey paper; sl. creased
& spotted.
791
¶GL 144, drawn on 7th November 1815 and three
other days. An unusual topical advertisement not
mentioning a London contractor, including an acrostic
by Fortunatus on ‘Stock Prizes’. The advertisement
lists the last day as Saturday 25th November, but
Grant suggests a later final draw on 7th December.
[1815] £30
HOW TO GET RICH!
790. PUFFS. Two advertisements for the First Lottery for
1815 issued by Thomas Bish.
¶GL 144, drawn on 7th November 1815.
One
advertisement is printed on the blue paper usually
used for wrappers, with books advertised on the verso.
(Stabbed & sl. torn without loss of text.) The other slip
is a poem ‘How to Get Rich!’ which merely mentions
Bish in its text. A ms. account for gloves & lace, &c. is
written on verso. Three prizes were for £50,000.
[1815] £35
1815 - Second Lottery
BLANKS
791. TICKET. Two conjoined blank tickets for the Second
Lottery 1815. Series B.
¶GL 145. Drawn on 14th February 1816. The tickets
have a different engraved block at the left and a
different number of asterisks at lower left.
1815 [1816] £85 †
A VALENTINE
792. PUFFS. Four advertisement slips for the Second
Lottery for 1815, issued by Hazard, Burne & Co. with
various printers. 2 rather creased.
¶GL 145, drawn on 14th February 1816. Each has a
short poem, ‘The Doubt’ being a parody of ‘To be or not to
be’. One bears a pair of doves for Valentine’s Day and
another a heart-shaped design ‘A Valentine for Fortune’s
Votaries’. The fourth is entitled ‘Prudent Reflections’.
792
[1815] £40
1815 - Third Lottery
793. TICKET - SHARE. Printed one eighth share in a ticket
in the Third Lottery for 1815, No. 12,652. Printed in
blue with red stamp on verso. The indent is in fact
straight, with minor marginal tear without loss.
¶GL 146, drawn on 14th May 1816. Signed by the
contractor Thomas Bish, with additional number
G1937 and blind stamp. The red stamp on verso
reads ‘Issued after 27th April 1816’ entered by DA
with printed initials S.B. Thomas Bish the elder died
in 1816 and his son was also called Thomas.
1815 [1816] £70 †
1815 - Third Lottery continued
794. PUFFS. Advertisement for the Third Lottery for 1815
issued by Thomas Bish. On blue paper; sl. creased
with stab holes in margin.
¶GL 146, drawn on 14th May 1816. Printed on the verso
of a blue wrapper with new books listed on the recto.
[1816?] £10
1816 - First Lottery
795. PUFFS. Two advertisements for the First Lottery
for 1816. Printed in red and black; sl. creased, one
stabbed in margin.
¶GL 148, drawn on 17th September 1816. Issued by
Carroll and Richardson, Goodluck & Co.
[1816] £35
1816 - Sunderland Bridge Lottery
796
796. TICKET. Ticket for the Sunderland Bridge Lottery.
Engraved indented ticket with view of the bridge, no.
635, signed by Matthew White Ridley, the Trustee.
Traces of folds.
¶GL 150: a private lottery drawn on 31st October
1816. Tickets cost about £7.14s, and each buyer was
also given a medal. Winners, who were to receive
a share of tolls, were drawn by the State Lottery.
Roland Burdon, M.P. for Sunderland, had financed
the building of the bridge; when his bank failed the
contractor raised funds by means of a lottery.
[1816] £150 †
1816 - Third Lottery
797
797. TICKET - SHARE. Printed one sixteenth share of a
ticket in the Third Lottery for 1816, No. 3,468. Printed
in red & black with engraved blocks; minor tears
without loss at edges. Indent is almost straight.
¶GL 151, drawn on 21st January1817. Signed by the
contractor William Marshall, the successor of Branscombe
& Co., with additional number 2542 and blind stamp.
With note on front ‘Undrawn First day W M’.
1816 [1817] £75
798. PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George) Twenty one Twelfth
Night style figures issue as advertisements for the
Third Lottery for 1816. One defective, one torn.
¶GL 151, drawn on 21st January 1817. Each framed
caricature represents a country with a note about the
lottery, some printed in red, and a short descriptive
verse. One verse mentions Bish. Napoleon represents
Corsica, and the Lord Mayor England but the more
remote nations have citizens like the Cossack LongSpearow Kutusaloff Zemlenutin. Cohn lists 22 in this
set 1585-1606. This set lacks Scotland and Germany
but includes the unlisted England.
[1816?] £125
799. PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George.) Eleven Twelfth Night
style Theatrical characters issued as advertisements
for the Third Lottery for 1816. Partly hand-coloured,
one torn, two trimmed.
¶GL 151, drawn on 21st January 1817. The figure’s
name and play is given with lottery details, then short
verses. Two figures, Moll Flaggon and Sir Francis
Wronghead, were also used in the earlier set (see
item 851). Two bear Bish’s name and also include
a quotation from the play. Cohn 1609, 1679, 1653,
1612, 1435, 1442, 1613 identify the artist as George
Cruikshank; the rest not traced.
798
[1817] £85
1816 - Third Lottery continued
800. PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George) Eight Twelfth Night
style figures issue as advertisements for the Third
Lottery for 1816. Two trimmed in margins.
¶GL 151, drawn on 21st January 1817. Each caricature
figure represents an Emotion, with a personal name and
a short descriptive verse. Three of the poems mention
the contractor Webb and one Swift. Cohn 1557, 1575,
1578, 1556, 1461, 1462, version of 1482, 1576.
[1816?] £85
801. PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George) Six Twelfth Night
style figures issue as advertisements for the Third
Lottery for 1816.
¶GL 151, drawn on 21st January 1817. Framed
figures each represent a rank in Society with a verse
printed below, two of which mention the contractor
Webb. The Baroness-Queen at Arms has lost a corner
of her frame and part of the date; the Hibernian
Viscountess has part of her poem torn away. The
women represented may be indentifiable members of
the peerage. Not traced in Cohn.
[1816?] 800.jpg
£50
‘ALL STERLING MONEY. NO STOCK PRIZES’
802. PUFFS. Six advertisements for the Third Lottery for 1816.
Minor tears, creasing & dusting, traces of laying down.
¶GL 151, drawn on 21st January 1817. The Bish
advertisement is of better quality in a red and black
engraved design;
slips are for Edward Eyton,
Marshall, Swift & Co. (with song on verso) and G.
Webb, with partial printing in red on verso indicating
the firm’s change of address to 17 Ludgate Street.
The final Webb handbill, with stab holes, is printed
with a typographical design in red and black.
1817 £50
1816 - Fourth Lottery
803. TICKET - SHARE. Printed one eighth share of a ticket
in the Fourth Lottery for 1816, No. 1,991. Printed in
red and blue with engraved blocks. Indent is almost
straight.
801
¶GL 152, drawn on 1st March 1817 and the smallest of
all the lotteries. Signed by the contractor Thomas Bish,
with additional number F741 and blind stamp. On
verso: ‘Pd £3.4/- Between Revd J.B. & I.B. recd of MB
£1.12’ and in another hand ‘Blank Mr Blundell recd an
offer from C.H. Drake of buying a Blank March 1. 1817’.
1816 [1817] £60 †
1816 - Fifth Lottery
804. TICKET - SHARE. Printed intented one eighth share
of a ticket in the Fifth Lottery for 1816, No. 4,612.
Printed in red and black with advertisement; sm. tear
without loss.
¶GL 151, drawn on 30th April 1817. Signed by the
contractor Thomas Bish, with additional number
M702 and blind stamp. On verso: Wm Sanderson.
804
1816 [1817] £75 †
805. PUFFS. Advertisement imitating a ticket in the Fifth
Lottery for 1816 offering No. 4,100 for sale at G.
Webb’s Offices, 9, Cornhill. Printed in red; sl. marked
at one edge.
¶GL 151, drawn on 21st January 1817.
prizes of 40 thousand guineas.
1817 Two top
£60
1816 - Fifth & Sixth Lotteries
806. PUFFS. Two advertisement handbills for the Fifth
and Sixth Lotteries for 1816 issued by the contractors
Swift & Co. Printed by Evans & Ruffy. One trimmed
close at lower edge with sl. loss of imprint.
¶GL 153 & 154, drawn on 30th April and 4th June 1817.
‘Swift’ is in attractive display type. Each prizewinner
over £25 had a free ticket in the next lottery, and the
two prize funds were reckoned together.
[1817] £30
1817 - Second Lottery
‘TO-MORROW OR THE BIRTHDAY’
807. PUFFS. Advertisement for the Second Lottery for
1817 issued by Sivewrights. 2pp.
¶GL 156, postponed from 7th to 25th November 1817
following the death of Princess Charlotte. This slip
for the second day, 9th December, has on its verso a
poem ‘To-Morrow or The Birthday’.
[1817] 806
£20
UNEQUALLED
808. PUFFS. Elaborate advertisement for the Second Lottery
for 1817, issued by G. Carroll. Printed by Gye & Balne.
¶GL 156, postponed from 7th to 25th November
1817 following the death of Princess Charlotte. An
engraved gothic frame printed in blue contains figures
of Fortune and Hope and the text printed in red.
[1817] £40
1817 - Third Lottery
809. TICKET - SHARE. Printed indented one sixteenth
of a ticket in the Third Lottery for 1817, No. 11,281.
Printed in red and black with engraved blocks; sm.
hole caused by ink.
¶GL 157, drawn on 4th March 1818. Signed for
the contractor G. Carroll with adverts (red on verso),
additional number H4978 and blind stamp. In ink on
verso: ‘Blank March 7 10 L(?) recd a/c from J. Lake.
Blanks could be sold back if unsuccessful.
1817 [1818] £50 †
3 OF £30,000: 12 PIPES OF PORT
810. PUFFS. Five advertisements for the Third Lottery for 1817.
¶GL 157, drawn on 4th March 1818. The advertising
for this lottery made much of 12 pipes of port. One
unattributed slip depicts a jovial drinker. Others revert
to poems on the verso: Bish has ‘Money in Plenty!
and Bumpers of Wine’, ‘The Picturesque Discovered’
(referring to Dr Syntax) and ‘Prodigious’ and J. & J.
Sivewright ‘To-Day and To-Morrow’.
810
[1818] £80
811. PUFFS. Advertisement imitating a ticket in the Third
Lottery for 1817 offering No. 992 for sale by Edward
Eyton at 2 Cornhill. Printed in red.
¶GL 157, drawn on 4th March 1818. The year is
added in ink. Prizes included 4 pipes of old port wine.
[1818] £60
1817 - Fourth Lottery
812. PUFFS. Advertisement handbill for the Fourth Lottery
for 1817 issued by Thomas Bish. Creased & dusted
at lower corner.
¶GL 158, drawn on 4th June 1818. In larger than
usual size with a long poem ‘North East West South
or, Bish’s Four Corners’.
811
[1818] £25
1817 - Fifth Lottery
813. PUFFS. Advertisement for the Fifth Lottery for 1817
issued by Carroll. Sl. foxed.
¶GL 159, drawn on 4th August 1818, and featuring
“gold, port, claret, or madeira”. The verso poem is
“True Independence”.
[1818] £20
1818 - Fourth Lottery
813
814. TICKET - SHARE. Printed indented one sixteenth
of a ticket in the Fourth Lottery for 1818, No. 6,076.
Printed in red. Indent almost straight.
¶GL 163, drawn on 11th May 1819. signed by the
contractor J. Sivewright, with additional no. D5893
and blind stamp. On verso: ‘Blank Undrawn 20th
May H.B.’.
1818 [1819] £45 †
815. TICKET - SHARE. Printed indented one sixteenth
of a ticket in the Fourth Lottery for 1818, No. 8,825.
Printed in red. Indent almost straight.
¶GL 163, drawn on 11th May 1819. signed by the
contractor J. Sivewright, with additional no. E5874
and blind stamp. On verso: ‘Blank Undrawn 20th
May H.B.’.
1818 [1819] £45 †
1819 - First Lottery
816. PUFFS. Nine advertisements for the First Lottery for
1819. One creased, one cropped at tail.
¶GL 167, drawn on 9th November 1819, Lord Mayor’s
Day. The prizes for this lottery were divided over
this and the next. A Bish handbill lays out serving
dishes in a ‘Grand Bill of Fare for Lord Mayor’s Day’
with poem. Three other Bish slips bear poems ‘Buy
of Bish’, ‘Double luck; or, Bish’s Reform’ and ‘The
Fair Circassian’. Three Sivewright advertisements
have poems ‘Old Maid’s Luck; or, Honey for Flies’, ‘To
Morrow’ and ‘A Word in Time’. Two advertisements
printed in red for Bish and Richardson, Goodluck
and Co. have black printed texts for G. Webb and
Sivewright respectively.
816
[1819] £75
1819 - Second Lottery
TWELFTH NIGHT CHARACTERS
817. PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George) A complete sheet
of Twelfth Night Characters each advertising
the Second Lottery for 1819 to be drawn on 12th
January 1820 (postponed until 25th February). J. &
J. Sivewright. Folded with splits, one tear repaired,
sl. creasing at edges.
¶Cohn 1347-1370: 24 amusing characters including
the King and Queen, many with satirical animal
heads and figures, each with an advertisement and
an appropriate 8-line poem advertising the lottery.
George Cruikshank signed all the images on a similar
copy of this sheet.
[1819] 818
£380
818. PUFFS. Advertisement for the Second Lottery for
1819 issued by J. & J. Sivewright. 2pp.
¶GL 168, drawn on 12th January 1820 postponed to
25th February. The verso poem is ‘The Rival Doctors’.
[1819] £20
817
1819 - Third Lottery
819. PUFFS. Advertisement for the Third Lottery for 1819
issued by Carroll. Printed on recto of sand coloured
wrapper paper with books advertised on verso; three
stab holes in left margin.
¶GL 169, drawn on 27th April 1820. The text refers to
a drawing on 11th April 1820 which must have been
delayed following the postponement of the previous
lottery, due to the death of the Duke of Kent.
1820 £20
1819 - Fourth Lottery
820. PUFFS. Four advertisements for the Fourth Lottery
for 1819 issued by Thomas Bish. Creased & dusted
at corners.
¶GL 170, drawn on 30th August 1820. Two slips bear
the poems ‘Paddy’s Fortune!’ and ‘Tom Truelove’s
Journal’. The third taller slip is perhaps the first
issue of ‘Fortune’s Ladder’ a staged illustration
obviously imitating William Hone’s ‘The Queen’s
Matrimonial Ladder’. This example is unfortunately
torn & creased at head & tail with loss of part of
‘Fortune’. The fourth slip bears the first example we
have of Bish’s matchstick-like figures ‘How to get up
in the World’.
[1820] £50
1819 - Fifth Lottery
822
821. PUFFS. Four advertisements for the Fifth Lottery for
1819. Some sl. dusted or with minor marginal tears.
¶GL 171, drawn on 5th & 18th October 1820. Three
for Thomas Bish: one better quality handbill printed
in red by Gye & Balne, one stick-figure tall slip ‘How
to grow Fat’ sl. torn at edges and a good copy of
‘Fortune’s Ladder’ (see item 850) with minor colouring
of figures. One handbill for J. and J. Sivewright within
an ornamental border.
[1820] £65
1820 - First Lottery
822. PUFFS. Two advertisements for the First Lottery for 1820.
¶GL 173, drawn on 23rd January 1821 and run jointly
with the next lottery. A sl. browned copy of [Bish’s]
‘How to get Married’ stick-figure slip, with a Twelfth
Night figure issued by Swift & Co.: a Scots caricature
Jenny Macnab, with verse, just shaved at head.
[1821] £20
1820 - Second Lottery
823. PUFFS. Two advertisement handbills for the Second
Lottery for 1820. Traces of stab holes.
¶GL 174, drawn on 14th February 1821. For Thomas
Bish printed in red, and for J. & J. Sivewright with a
woodcut of Cupid fishing.
[1821] £35
1820 - Third Lottery
824. PUFFS. Four advertisements for the Third Lottery for
1820. Minor tears on two.
¶GL 175, drawn on 17th May 1821 and advertised
as a Cheap Lottery with a ticket costing only £14.14s.
Two Bish advertisements use stick-figures, one with
a verse. There is a general slip and the Sivewright
handbill with engraved crest and borders is printed
in red.
823
[1821] £45
1820 - Tomkins’s Picture Lottery
825. PUFFS. Two single sheet advertisements for Tomkins’s
Picture Lottery, 1821. n.p. One stabbed & sl. dusted
with minor tears at tail. Each 2pp.
¶GL 176. Peltro William Tomkins obtained a private
Act of Parliament to dispose of the contents of his
gallery at 53 New Bond Street. Both advertisements
have identical testimonials from celebrated artists on
the verso. The first lists the monetary value of the
prizes, the second giving more details of their contents,
announcing the drawing date of 24th July 1821 which
was postponed for a week because of the Coronation.
1821 £35
1820 - Fourth Lottery
826. PUFFS. Five advertisements for the Fourth Lottery
for 1820.
826
¶GL 177, drawn on 30th October 1821. Three Bish
slips: a Rebus headed by Old Father Time, ‘A Riddling
Acrostic’ sl. foxed & creased with minor tear at tail,
and a verse illustrated with Fortune pouring gold
coins to a banquet of stick-figures. A plain handbill
for Carroll, stabbed in margin and a Hazard & Co. slip
depicting a man with a billboard.
[1821] £45
1821 - First Lottery
827. PUFFS. Three advertisements for the First Lottery for 1821.
¶GL 178, drawn on 26th February 1822 and also on
St Patrick’s Day. A Bish slip with Valentine’s Day
woodblock of Cupid driving a coach drawn by hearts;
a Carroll slip bearing the Twelfth Night figure used for
Rage in 1816 (see item 800) although the angry father
has become a deserted husband (torn in margin), and
a ‘How to get Married’ stick figure slip now issued by
J. & J. Sivewright.
[1822] £65
1821 - Second Lottery
827
828. TICKET - SHARE. Printed indented one eighth share
of a ticket in the Second Lottery for 1821, No. 555.
Printed in blue; sl. creased.
¶GL 179, drawn on 4th June 1822. Signed by the
contractor Edward Eyton, with additional number
B10112 and blind stamp.
1821 [1822] £50 †
‘AT ALL THE LOTTERY OFFICES’
829. PUFFS. Five advertisements for the Second Lottery for
1821. Minor tears & dusting.
¶GL 179, drawn on 14th June 1822 (not 4th as listed
by Grant). None of these slips names a contractor.
There is a tall slip titled ‘Love and Riches’ with stick
figures, a new version of the earlier rebus with Father
Time, a mock proclamation from Fortune and two bold
illustrations of figures with boards or banners of a
kind reproduced in John Ashton’s book.
[1822] £50
GRETNA GREEN
830. PUFFS. Gretna Green; or, The Elopement. n.p. Sl.
creased with minor tears in margins.
¶GL 179, drawn on 14th June 1822. A comic-style
handbill with five lines of small caricatures describing
the lottery winning elopers. The blocks were used
later (see 832).
829
[1822] £25
1821 - Third Lottery
831. PUFFS. Six advertisements for the Third Lottery for
1821. Some creased or torn in margins, one foxed.
¶GL 180, drawn on 10th, 17th & 21st July 1822?
(A minor mystery: Grant lists three days beginning
on 16th July with different financing, but one
advertisement refers to the previous lottery on 14th
June; however four of these slips refer to Tuesday 10th
July which can only refer to 1804, 1810, and 1821.
This may therefore be part of the elaborate GL 175
lottery.) Two Bish advertisements are within engraved
borders, one in red and one black; one Sivewright slip.
One general slip with ‘Fortune’s Feast’ of stick figures,
a new version of ‘Love’s Progress’ based on ‘Fortune’s
Ladder’ [1820] (torn & repaired); and ‘Fortune’s
Standard’ with stick-figures with a military theme.
[1822?] £110
1821 - Fourth Lottery
NEW MARRIAGE ACT
832. PUFFS. Two illustrated advertisements for the Fourth
Lottery for 1821.
¶GL 181, drawn on 30th October 1822. ‘An Escape
from the New Marriage Act’ is a shortened version of
the Gretna Green comic strip (see item 830) issued by
Martin & Co. It is reduced to four lines with only two
verses. (The New Marriage Act of 1822 was partly
repealed in 1823.) The second advertisement for
Carroll shows two figures, a Kitchen and a Cook Maid,
made up from household utensils.
832
[1822] £25
1822 - Third Lottery
RICARDO’S LOTTERY
833. PUFFS. Illustrated advertisement for the Third Lottery
for 1822 issued by Eyton.
¶GL 184, drawn on 25th September 1823. This,
described here as an ‘Old English Lottery’, was
organised by the economist Ricardo and all tickets
were on sale on the open market ‘all floating’. The
lively advertisement printed on mustard yellow paper
shows a figure with a large grotesque head such as
those used in pantomimes. The demise of the lottery
is often credited to Henry Thornton & David Ricardo;
the latter died in September 1823.
[1823] £150
1822 - Fourth Lottery
DON JUAN
834. PUFFS. Two advertisements for the Fourth Lottery for
1822 issued by J. & J. Sivewright.
¶GL 185, drawn on 19th February 1824. With a sl.
shaved version of the stick-figure ‘How to get Married’ is
a sl. creased & chipped slip headed ‘Don Juan In-debtto-us’ which may contain a former Twelfth Night figure.
[1824] £40
1823 - First Lottery
835. PUFFS. Four advertisements for the First Lottery of
1823. One torn at tail, two sl. creased & dusted.
¶GL 186, drawn on 5th October 1824.
Three
advertisements are for the first day of drawing: a stickfigure ‘How to Grow Fat’, a Bish ‘Luck’s Progress’ now
printed horizontally and a splendid Martin & Co. figure
of Sir John Falstaff. Three slips refer to a later drawing
on 3rd November: a part vertical ‘Luck’s progress’ with
stick-figures, and two Bish slips with new Twelfth
Night style figures, probably referring to current plays.
835
[1824] £50
1823 - First Lottery continued
836. PUFFS. Fine coloured advertisement for the First
Lottery for 1823, issued by the contractor George
Carroll. Whiting & Branston.
¶GL 186 (?). Grant gives date of drawing as 5th
October 1824, but this advertisement and the enclosed
(torn) half of one eighth Bish ticket give drawing dates
of 16th and 31st December. The advertisement is a
splendid wood engraved design of oval cartouches
round one central oval with text, printed in blue
and green and cut out round the waved edges. The
risk of a ticket is £4.19s and of one sixteenth share,
9s.6d. - still expensive. The text mentions Lake & Son
watchmakers, Taunton as Carroll’s agents (see also
items 850 & 856).
1824 £35
1823 - Second Lottery
After encountering considerable opposition, in part due to
abuses in the system, an Act establishing the final lottery
was passed in 1823. Its proceedings were dragged out
over three years with a series of 10 drawings ending on
18th October 1826.
EDINBURGH AGENT
837. PUFFS. Advertisement for the Second Lottery for 1823.
¶GL 187(a), drawn on 12th April 1825. A version
of the earlier ‘Fortune’s Feast’ now titled ‘Fortune’s
Entertainment’ issued by W. Hunter, bookseller,
Hanover Street, Edinburgh as agent for Martin & Co.
838
[1825] £30
838. PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George) Seven advertisement
slips based on theatrical Twelfth Night style figures,
with four variants. Some rather creased, one without
contractor.
¶GL 187(a), drawn on 12th April 1825. The tall slips
are printed by J. Bullock and are mostly issued by J.
& J. Sivewright, with others from Bish, Carroll and
Swift & Co. Each figure is headed by a quotation with
an appropriate verse: one depicts Madame Vestris
with a broom and is signed RC (Robert Cruikshank?).
Another depicts the ragged tailor (see also item 853).
Cohn 1340 (version), 1381, the rest unidentified.
[1825] £65
839. PUFFS. Twelve advertisements for the Second Lottery
for 1823. Some creased, two torn with loss.
¶GL 187(a), drawn on 12th April 1825. Two slips for
Bish, one each for Carroll, and Richardson, and one
general. Sivewright has several designs including
one with spelling ‘Tueday’. One is an unusual tall
double size bill, two bear caricatures of a mourning
John Bull (with one Carroll improved copy) and one,
partly printed in red, depicts two mourning blue coat
boys (see also item 875).
1825 £150
HARLEQUINADE & PUZZLE HEADS
840. PUFFS. Nineteen advertisements (including variants)
for the Second Lottery for 1823, issued by Hazard &
Co. Of various sizes, some sl. creased or trimmed.
839
¶GL 187(a), drawn on 12th April 1825. Three slips
depict Hazard’s old office at the South Gate of the
Royal Exchange; three have puzzle heads with a
second face when inverted; five depict Harlequinade
characters with billboards, one bears the Wandering
Jew, and one is the old Emotion ‘Desire’ slip depicting
1823 - Second Lottery continued
Parson Trulliber (Cohn 1556, see item 864). A wider
slip portrays Falstaff with advertisement on his
shield, reused in (see item 835).
[1825] £225
841. PUFFS. Coloured advertisement for the Second Lottery
for 1823.
¶GL 187(b) drawn on 31st May 1825. A group
of men and women dance round a maypole
decorated with garlands and banners, partly
coloured in red and green. This copy, sl. marked,
is issued by Bish.
[1825] £30
842. PUFFS. Coloured advertisement for the Second Lottery
for 1823.
¶GL 187(b) drawn on 31st May 1825. A group
of men and women dance round a maypole
decorated with garlands and banners, partly
coloured in red and green. This copy, sl. creased,
is issued by Carroll.
[1825] £30
843. PUFFS. Coloured advertisement for the Second Lottery
for 1823.
840
¶GL 187(b) drawn on 31st May 1825. A group
of men and women dance round a maypole
decorated with garlands and banners, partly
coloured in red and green. This copy is issued by
Hazard & Co.
[1825] £30
844. PUFFS. Four different coloured advertisements for the
Second Lottery for 1823.
¶GL 187(b), drawn on 31st May 1825. A Carroll slip
bears a dancing green man; a Hazard slip printed
in black, red and olive green bears a grotesque
procession; the Bish & Swift slips, the latter sl. torn at
one corner, bear a spray of oak leaves and acorns in
green and yellow, with another different coloured cut
of the illustration.
[1825] £50
845. PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George) Nine advertisement
slips based on theatrical Twelfth Night style figures,
with two variants, one trimmed. Sl. creasing.
¶GL 187(b), drawn on 31st May 1825. The tall slips
printed by J. Bullock are mostly issued by J. & J.
Sivewright with Hazard and Carroll variants. The
titles such as ‘Hit or Miss’ or Keen Calculations refer
either to the play title or a well known character with
a short descriptive verse. There is a little known
caricature of Edmund Kean as Richard III and other
slips may portray Liston, Grimaldi and Madame
Vestris, &c. Cohn 1373; the rest untraced.
[1825] £110
846. PUFFS. Three advertisements for the Second Lottery
for 1823.
¶GL 187(b), drawn on 31st May 1825. A Bish slip
bears a hand-coloured caricatured soldier. Two Eyton
slips are printed on pink paper; one is sl. torn at edges
& faded; one bears one of the billboard grotesques
used by Hazard in the previous lottery.
845
[1825] £45
1823 - Second Lottery continued
64 PIPES OF WINE GRATIS
847. PUFFS. Coloured advertisement for the Second Lottery
for 1823 issued by Hazard & Co. Printed by Whiting &
Branston, engravers.
¶GL 187(c), drawn on 15th July 1825. (Grant gives
18th July.) An elaborate engraved frame printed in
red and green mentinoing St. Swithin’s Day containing
letterpress text printed in blue.
1825 £45
848. PUFFS. Three versions of a coloured advertisement
for the Second Lottery for 1823 depicting three men
sitting round a barrel, drinking. Partly coloured in
printed red & blue with sl. variable register.
¶GL 187(c), drawn on 15th July 1825 (Grant gives
18th), and including 64 pipes of old wine. Four
examples, issued by Bish (with one added line of red
underlining), J. & J. Sivewright, and Hazard & Co.
[1825] £45
849. PUFFS. Eleven advertisements for the Second Lottery
for 1823. Some creased, one torn at old fold, &c.
849
¶GL 187(c), drawn on 15th July 1825 (Grant wrongly
has 18th), including 64 pipes of old wine featured in
some slips. One general slip; one for Carroll; a set
of four for Eyton depicting visions of winning; one for
Hazard & Co. depicting a grotesque contemporary
Bacchus; and a set of four slips depicting theatrical
Twelfth Night characters with verses, including Liston
in drag, Mother Goose and the Hottentot Venus issued
by Bish, Carroll, Sivewright and Swift.
[1825] £125
TAUNTON AGENT
850. PUFFS. Coloured advertisement printed in red and
green, cut round the elaborate engraved frame. Sm.
tear at old fold.
¶GL 187(d), drawn on 31st August 1825. Issued
by Carroll the contractor, with also the name of the
agents Lake & Son, watchmakers, Taunton.
[1825] £40
851. PUFFS. Six advertisements for the Second Lottery for
1823. Some sl. creased.
¶GL 187(d), drawn on 31st August 1825. A Carroll
horizontal slip, four Hazard & Co. horizontal slips with
opposing pairs of possible Twelfth Night figures (Self
Satisfied/Discontented, &c.), one in two forms; and
a tall Sivewright slip with a figure of the actor John
Liston as Moll Flaggon.
[1825] £65
852. PUFFS. Two advertisements relating to the Second
Lottery for 1823. Minor marginal tears.
¶GL 187(e), drawn on 18th October 1825.
An
elaborate engraved handbill for Sivewright printed by
Whiting & Branston in green and red and an unusual
slip for Hazard & Co. Printed in red it bears the
date October 19 and details of favourable results for
Hazard tickets. The next lottery on 6th December is
advertised in smaller type at the foot.
1825 £40
853. PUFFS. Eight advertisements for the Second Lottery
for 1823. Sl. creased with a few spots.
851
¶GL 187(f), drawn on 6th December 1825. A slip
with poem ‘Monkey-Mad’ discusses current theatrical
attractions; poems ‘Bish’s Budget of Luck’, with a
1823 - Second Lottery continued
stick-figure headline, ‘Bish’s Lucky List!’ and ‘A Friend
worth Having!’ (2 variants) are each 2pp; a Carroll slip
is titled ‘Questions and Answers’ and one for Martin
& Co. with Paul Pry’s ‘I hope I don’t intrude’. The
Sivewright slip bears a Twelfth Night figure of a ragged
tailor with scissors and bunch of flowers.
[1825] £85
854. PUFFS. Small coloured advertisement for the Second
Lottery for 1823, engraved by Whiting & Brandon.
About carte de visite size.
¶GL 187(f), drawn on 6th December 1825. This
example issued by Hazard & Co. has blue engraved
frame with brown panels and a fine embossed coat of
arms on a pale mauve ground.
[1825] £40
855. PUFFS. Small coloured advertisement for the Second
Lottery for 1823, engraved by Whiting & Brandon.
About carte de visite size.
¶GL 187(f), drawn on 6th December 1825. This
example issued by Hazard & Co. has brown engraved
frame with blue panels on a pale mauve ground.
[1825] £35
856. PUFFS. Small coloured advertisement for the Second
Lottery for 1823, engraved by Whiting & Brandon.
About carte de visite size.
853
¶GL 187(f), drawn on 6th December 1825. This
example issued by Carroll, trimmed to edge of frame.
Brown frame with blue panels, the lowest mentioning
the agents Lake & Son, Taunton.
[1825] £20
857. TICKET - SHARE. Printed one eighth share in a ticket
for the Second Lottery of 1823, No. 6,798. Printed in
black on yellow paper with almost straight indent.
¶GL 187(g), drawn on 1st March 1826 (postponed
from 26th January). Signed by the contractor G.
Richardson with date (?) 12/3, additional number
C310 and blind stamp.
1823 [1826] £40 †
MANCHESTER
858. PUFFS. Advertisements for the Second Lottery for
1823. Issued by Hazard & Co.
¶GL 187(g), drawn on 1st March 1826, postponed from
26th January. Plain slip with a caricature Welshman
for St David’s Day, with the name of the Manchester
agent J. Merone, Market St.
[1826] £25
EMBOSSED CARD
859. PUFFS. Coloured card advertisement for the Second
Lottery for 1823 issued by Thomas Bish, engraved by
Whiting & Branston.
¶GL 187(g), drawn on 1st March 1826. A pink
engraved frame containing the embossed royal arms
on blue, and embossed figure of Fortune on green with
further brown compartments.
[1826] £45
860. PUFFS. Coloured card advertisement for the Second
Lottery for 1823 issued by Hazard & Co. engraved by
Whiting & Branston. Creased at one corner.
858
¶GL 187(g), drawn on 1st March 1826.
A pink
1823 - Second Lottery continued
engraved frame containing the embossed royal arms
on blue, and embossed figure of Fortune on green with
further brown compartments.
[1826] £45
861. PUFFS. Coloured handbill advertisement for the
Second Lottery for 1823, issued by Bish and engraved
by Whiting & Branston.
¶GL 187(g), drawn on 1st March 1826. An elaborate
pink rectangular frame with blue compartments.
[1826] £35
862. PUFFS. Coloured paper advertisement for the Second
Lottery for 1823 issued by Carroll. engraved by Whiting
& Branston. Trimmed to the edges of the pink frame,
using only blue compartments without embossing and
royal arms.
¶GL 187(g), drawn on 1st March 1826.
[1826] £35
863. PUFFS. Gretna Green, or, the Elopement! n.p. Illus.
corner torn & repaired behind with sellotape.
¶GL 187(g), drawn on 1st March 1826. A later issue
for Hazard & Co. of the comic strip style advertisement
first used in 1822 (see item 832).
[1826] £30
864. PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George) Seven advertisement
slips with Twelfth Night style figures, issued by the
contractor Carroll.
¶GL 187(g), drawn on 1st March 1826. Reusing
caricatures representing Emotions issued in 1817 (see
item 800). Here the full slip is present and the names
of the characters are changed; e.g. Selina Sensitive
representing Agitation becomes Lucinda Lovesick;
Parson Trulliber becomes Parson Mulberry. Two are not
present in the earlier set. Cohn 1474, 1575, 1477, 1478,
1472, 1475, 1484 - with duplicates of 1478 and 1575.
[1826] £200
865. PUFFS. Six advertisements for the Second Lottery for
1823. Minor creases, one stain, one torn corner.
¶GL 187(g), drawn on 1st March 1826, postponed
from 26th January. Plain slips for Bish, Carroll,
Hazard and Pidding and variant Hazard slips with a
caricature Welshman for St David’s Day.
[1826] £60
VALENTINE
866. PUFFS. A Valentine. Manchester: J. Merone. A rhyming
slip illustrated with type ornaments; one old fold.
¶G. 187(g), drawn on 1st March. An Edinburgh issue
of this advertisement is reproduced in Ewen p.272.
Hazard & Co. are listed as the London agents, with
six prizes of £20,000, whereas Grant states there
were only 4 prizes, and two of £16,000. ‘No fresh
damask rose,/ when held to the nose ...’
[1826] £40
867. TICKETS - SHARE. Printed one sixteenth of a ticket
in the Second Lottery for 1823, No. 111. Printed in red
and blue. Indent almost straight.
¶GL 187(h), drawn on 3rd May 1826 (postponed from
24th March). Signed for the contractor Martin & Co.
with additional number A696 (or 196?) and blind stamp.
866
1823 [1826] £45 †
1823 - Second Lottery continued
SECOND LOTTERY: NINETEEN PUFFS
868. PUFFS. Nineteen advertisements for the Second
Lottery for 1823. Some sl. creased.
¶GL 187(h), drawn on 3rd May, postponed from
24th March 1826 and advertised as the ‘last lottery
but one’. Four general slips (one variant); three for
Bish the last sole contractor; one for Carroll; one for
Eyton; three for Hazard including a poem about Paul
Pry; and seven for Sivewright including two reusing
Twelfth Night figures first used in 1825 (see item 838)
and one with a poem about Jack Oakum.
[1826] £240
869. PUFFS. Three coloured advertisements for the Second
Lottery for 1823.
¶GL 187(h), drawn on 3rd May 1826, postponed from
24th March. Two elaborate engraved advertisements
for Carroll printed by Whiting & Branston: a large
paper advertisement trimmed round the green frame
with brown compartments, and a small card with
rectangular green frame with red compartments and
an embossed figure of Fortune on a yellow ground.
The third is a rougher small cut circle printed in black
with red compartments.
[1826] 868
£35
LAST LOTTERY OF ALL
870. TICKET - SHARE. Printed one sixteenth share of a
ticket in the Second Lottery for 1823, No. 16,333.
Printed in red & black; stained at one corner. Indent
almost straight.
¶GL 187(i), drawn on 18th October 1826 (postponed
from 17th May and then 18th July). Signed for the
contractor Thomas Bish with additional number
C47283 and blind stamp. All tickets in this catalogue
have the printed date of 18th July.
1823 [1826] £40 †
871. TICKET - SHARE. Printed indented one sixteenth
share of a ticket in the Second Lottery for 1823, No.
12,478. Printed in red & black.
¶GL 187(i), drawn on 18th October 1826. Signed for
the joint contractors Hazard & Co. with additional
number C7449 and signature T. Hull, with blind
stamp. Blank on verso.
1823 [1826] £40 †
872. TICKET - SHARE. Printed one eighth share in a ticket
for the Second Lottery for 1823, No. 8,927. Printed in
blue and red. Indent almost straight.
¶GL 187(i), drawn on 18th October 1826. Signed for the
contractor Martin & Co. (crossed through) with additional
number B107 and blind stamp. Blank on verso.
1823 [1826] £50 †
873. TICKET - SHARE. Printed one half share in a ticket
for the Second Lottery for 1823, No. 18,691. Printed
in blue and red. Indent almost straight.
¶GL 187(i), drawn on 18th October 1826. Signed for the
contractor Martin & Co. (crossed through) with additional
number E145 and blind stamp. Blank on verso.
869
1823 [1826] £45 †
874. TICKET - SHARE. Printed one sixteenth share in
a ticket in the Second Lottery for 1823, No. 7,975.
Printed in black, blue and red with engraved block.
¶GL 187(i), drawn on 18th October 1826. Signed for
1823 - Second Lottery continued
the joint contractors J. & J. Sivewright, with additional
number E11195 and signature W. Jones and blind
stamp. Blank on verso.
1823 [1826] £45 †
THE LAST OF THE LOTTERIES
875. PUFFS.
Eighteen advertisements for the Second
Lottery for 1823. A few creases.
¶GL 187(i), all bearing the date 18th July, but the
drawing was postponed until 18th October 1826.
Five horizontal and one vertical general slips; four
Bish slips, one with black impression of the mourning
blue coat boys (see item 839); a Sivewright slip with
grotesque figure, six Swift slips (one variant), two
containing poems and one a short dialogue. ‘The Last
of the Lotteries’ is a long elegy including the names of
all the contractors.
1826 £200
LOTTERY DRAW IN COLOUR
876. PUFFS. (CRUIKSHANK, George) An Exact Representation of the Drawing of the State Lottery, as it will
take place on Tuesday, the 18th day of July, 1826, ...
n.p. Colour printed; sl. torn along old fold.
¶GL 187(i), the drawing was in fact postponed until
18th October.
This horizontal scene shows the
drawing in considerable detail with numbered key.
Some of the numbers are missing. See Cohn 1567.
1826 £125
877. PUFFS. An Exact Representation of the Drawing of
the State Lottery, as it will take place on Tuesday, the
18th day of July, 1826, ... n.p. Uncoloured, printed
on yellow paper.
¶GL 187(i). A vertical slip with compressed scene
showing considerable detail with numbered key,
issued by the contractor Bish.
875
1826 £35
878. PUFFS. An Exact Representation of the Drawing of
the State Lottery, as it will take place on Tuesday, the
18th day of July, 1826, ... n.p. Uncoloured, printed
on yellow paper; sl. stained with minor tear.
¶GL 187(i). A vertical slip with compressed scene
showing considerable detail with numbered key,
issued by the contractor Hazard & Co.
1826 £30
879. PUFFS. Large coloured advertisement for the Second
Lottery for 1823 issued by J. & J. Sivewright, engraved
by Whiting & Branston.
¶GL 187(i), to be drawn on 17th May but postponed.
An elaborate engraved shape printed in green, brown
& red advertising the final lottery on 18th July.
[1826] £65
880. PUFFS. Coloured engraved embossed advertisement
for the Final Second Lottery for 1823.
¶GL 187(i), drawn on 18th October 1826. The version for
Bish has a green outer frame with brown compartments.
A compressed royal arms is embossed in a blue circle.
[1826] 880
£40
881. PUFFS. Coloured engraved embossed advertisement
for the Final Second Lottery for 1823. Sl. creased.
¶GL 187(i), drawn on 18th October 1826. The version
1823 - Second Lottery continued
for Carroll has a brown outer frame with darker
green compartments. The engravers’ name, Whiting &
Branston is visible.
[1826] £40
882. PUFFS. Ten advertisements for the Final Second
Lottery for 1823. The odd crease, tear or trimming.
¶GL 187(i) bearing the date of the last drawing on
18th October 1826 (originally intended for 17th May
then 18th July). Handbills for Carroll and Sivewright
printed on yellow paper, two general advertisements,
slips for Martin & Co. and Pidding & Co. and four
Hazard & Co. horizontal opposing pairs of Twelfth
Night figures, one the same as used in GL 187(d),
1825 (see item 851).
[1826] £120
1833 - Glasgow - First Lottery
IRISH ADVERTISEMENT
883. PUFFS. Single sheet advertisement for the First
Glasgow Lottery issued by John Bolster, bookseller of
Cork. The odd crease, tear or trimming, spotted &
torn at one side. 2pp.
¶GL 188, drawn on 17th April 1833. The recto sets out
details of the offer of prizes by the Glasgow Improvement
Company, most being actual property. The verso in
large type contains ‘The Lottery: a new song’ full of
references to John Bolster and the prizes, based on the
popular song ‘I never says nothing to nobody’.
882
1833 £35
1834 - Glasgow - Second Lottery
884. TICKET - SHARE. Printed one sixteenth share in the
Second Glasgow Lottery for 1834, No. 170, C series.
Printed in red and black; sl. creased. Indent is almost
straight.
¶GL 189, drawn on 22nd January 1834. A private
scheme by the Glasgow Improvement Company
which according to Grant slipped unnoticed through
Parliament. This share is signed for Thomas Bish
with Check no. X36268 and signatures C. Mathen and
D. Aumond. The verso carries a blue printed note of
Bish’s change of address.
1834 £40 †
1834 - Glasgow - Third Lottery
885
THIRD & FINAL GLASGOW
885. TICKET - SHARE. Printed indented one sixteenth
share in a ticket in the Third Glasgow Lottery for 1834,
No. 2,842.
¶GL 190, drawn on 28th August 1834 (postponed from
22nd July as printed on tickets). Signed for Thomas
Bish with Check number B36887 signed C.M[athen] and
W. Fowler. Bish’s address change note in red on verso.
1834 £40 †
886. TICKET - SHARE. Printed indented one sixteenth
share in a ticket in the Third Glasgow Lottery for 1834,
No. 9,663. Indent almost straight.
¶GL 190, drawn on 28th August (postponed from 22nd
July as printed on tickets). Signed for Thomas Bish
with Check number C31588. signed C.M[athen] and W.
Fowler. Bish’s address change note in red on verso.
886
1834 £40 †
OVERSEAS LOTTERIES
IRISH LOTTERY
887. IRELAND - 1796 - TICKET-SHARE. Slip denoting a
sixteenth share in Ticket no. 26,448 in the Irish State
Lottery 1796, signed for Hazard Burne & Co. n.p.
Embossed crown stamp.
¶At foot the no. ‘c.550’ and ‘Royal Exchange’. Tickets
cost from £8 - £10 making smaller shares necessary
for subscribers. The separate Irish Exchequer was
abolished at the Union in 1800.
1796 887
£150 †
888. IRELAND - 1797. Advertisement printed on blue
wrapper, with London book prospectus, &c. on recto.
Sl. chipped at edge.
¶The winning numbers for July 1797 are listed with
the scheme for the Second Irish State Lottery to be
drawn on November 20th. A ticket cost £6.2s.
1797 £20
1718 HOLLAND
889. NETHERLANDS - 1718 - TICKET. Ticket for the 2nd
Distribution of the Holland Lottery No. 46885 of 29th
April 1718. Small hole affecting one letter, old fold.
¶Printed form, signed by the promoter Gabriel den
Haen noting receipt of 25 guilders from William Collins,
numbered 20520. Predating the establishment of the
Dutch State Lottery, 1726.
1718 £225 †
LOTTERIES: MISCELLANEOUS
ANONYMOUS
890. The Wonderful Advantages of Adventuring in the
Lottery!!! 12mo. Sold by J. Marshall; Bath: S. Hazard;
Edinburgh: J. Elder. Disbound. 16pp.
¶Cheap Repository Tracts. Spinney 88a. The title vignette
depicts the drawing of the lottery. ... 4s 6d per 100 ...
889
[1797?] £40
891. The Wonderful Advantages of Adventuring in the
Lottery!!! 12mo. Sold by J. Marshall; Bath: S. Hazard;
Edinburgh: J. Elder. Blue paper wraps. 16pp.
¶Spinney 88a.
[1797?] £40
892. The Wonderful Advantages of Adventuring in the
Lottery!!! 12mo. Sold by J. Evans & Son; J. Hatchard;
Bath: J. Binns. Disbound. 16pp.
¶Later edition: the title vignette depicts a highway
robbery. ... 6s 6d per 100 ...
[c.1805] £30
893. The Wonderful Advantages of Adventuring in the
Lottery!!! 12mo. Sold by J. Evans & Sons. A little
soiled. Disbound. 12pp.
¶Another edition: the title vignette depicts a highway
robbery. ... 7s per 100 ...
[c.1815] __________
891
£20
894. PUFFS.
Eleven miscellaneous advertisements it
has proved impossible to date exactly for the State
Lotteries. Some creased and torn.
¶Various handbills, some illustrated, one with a
riddle, and one actually entitled ‘A Lottery Puff’.
Including a coloured Richardson Goodluck roundel
depicting blue coat boys, two of the miniature London
tradesmen caricatures, a horizontal Bish stick-figure
slip with a few cuttings.
[c.1810-26] £85
895. SCRAPBOOK. Scrapbook leaf of material relating to
lotteries principally comprising articles from Hone’s
Every-Day Book, with illus., poems, &c. 2pp.
[1826, &c] £10
CRUIKSHANK: WARREN’S BLACKING
896. WARREN, Robert. Ten Advertisement Slips for
Warren’s Blacking depicting Characters in Popular
Plays also used for contemporary lottery puffs for 21st
January, 1817. n.p. Marks of laying down on versos.
894
¶Each engraved figure is accompanied by an
advertisement strapline, a quotation and a short verse.
Some are ascribed to George Cruikshank by Cohn, who
did not see the complete series. It is possible that the
blocks were only reused after the last lotteries in 1825
& 1826. Archer in The Beaux Stratagem. (Sm. tear in
lower margin repaired.); Hodge in Love in a Village.
(One corner torn.); (Cohn 1610.) Juliana in The Honey
Moon. (Corner torn, shaving one letter.); Juliet in Romeo
and Juliet; Major Sturgeon in The Mayor of Garratt;
Mat Mainmast in The English Fleet. (Cohn 1618.); Miss
M’Tab in The Poor Gentleman; Moll Flaggon in The Lord
of the Manor. (Cohn 1653.); Queen Dollalolla in Tom
Thumb. (Cohn 1609.); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet.
[c.1825?] £85
LOTTERIES: REFERENCE
ASHTON, John
See also items 15-17 & 364-377.
897. A History of English Lotteries, now for the first time
written. Leadenhall Press. Initial leaf, front. & plates,
illus. 16pp ads; paper a little browned. Orig. brown
cloth, pink paper onlay titles, one sl. chipped; sl. dulled.
¶Including 28 facsimile lottery bills on various
coloured papers.
1893 £120
898. A History of English Lotteries, ... Leadenhall Press.
Initial leaf, front. & plates, illus. 16pp ads; paper a little
browned. Orig. brown cloth, pink paper onlay titles;
hinges repaired. Poor copy.
1893 £45
__________
899. EWEN, C. L’Estrange. Lotteries and Sweepstakes:
an historical, legal, and ethical survey of their
introduction, suppression and re-establishment in the
British Isles. Heath Cranton. Front., plates & illus.,
bibliog. Orig. dark blue cloth. v.g. in d.w.
1932 £75
897
900. EWEN, C. L’Estrange. Lotteries and Sweepstakes: ...
Heath Cranton. Front., plates & illus., bibliog. Orig.
red cloth; faded.
1932 £38
THE END
849
INDEX OF LOTTERY PROMOTERS & AGENTS
London, unless otherwise stated.
Thomas Bish
729, 733, 734, 747,
750, 757, 759, 761,
762, 764, 768, 769,
773, 777-780, 790,
793, 794, 798, 802804, 810, 812, 816,
820-824, 826, 827,
831, 835, 838, 839,
841, 844, 846, 848,
849, 853, 859, 861,
865, 868, 870, 875,
877, 880, 884-886.
John Bolster, (Cork)
883.
John & Josiah Boydell
735, 736.
Branscomb
731, 741, 750, 751,
761, 765, 767, 782.
Harrison Brooke
744, 756.
George Carroll
795,
819,
836,
844,
856,
868,
894.
808, 809, 813,
826, 827, 832,
838, 839, 842,
849-851, 853,
862, 864, 865,
869, 881, 882,
William Carter
894.
Dunham & Yallop, (Norwich)
762.
Edward Eyton
776, 779, 802, 811,
828, 833, 846, 849,
868, 894.
Hall & Co.
732
Robert Hazard
717, 792, 826, 840,
843-845, 847-849,
851, 852, 854, 855,
860, 863, 865, 866,
868, 871, 878, 882,
887.
Hodges & Co.
750, 751.
Thomas Hornsby
737, 743, 749, 751,
760, 768.
W. Hunter, (Edinburgh)
837.
Newman Knowlys, (City of London Trustee)
753.
Lake & Son, (Taunton)
836, 850, 856.
Margray & Co.
720.
William Marshall 797, 802.
William Martin
832, 835, 853, 867,
872, 873, 882.
J. Merone,
(Manchester)
866.
James Pidding
775, 781, 865, 882.
Richardson Goodluck
724,
742,
758,
795,
Shergold & Co.
720.
John Sivewright
807,
821,
831,
848,
868,
882,
725,
750,
765,
816,
738-740,
751, 755,
787, 788,
839, 857.
810,
823,
838,
849,
874,
894.
814-818,
824, 827,
839, 845,
851-853,
875, 879,
Matthew White Ridley, 796.
(Sunderland Bridge Trustee)
Swift & Co.
748, 751, 774, 785,
800, 802, 806, 838,
844, 849, 875.
Thornton784.
Peltro William Tomkins
825.
J. Warner
746.
George Webb
722, 800, 802, 805,
816.
G. Wright, (Leeds)
755.