150 Scottish Chapbook Songs Spread across 59 Glaswegian Chapbooks

59 individual chapbooks printed in Glasgow ‘for the Booksellers’ and bound together as one at a later date. The volume contains a single sequence of Popular, Favourite, Sentimental and Excellent songs and ballads, many featuring home grown Scottish content, satire, and local characters, printed either in groups of 3, 5, 7 or 9 songs or as individuals. These are numbered, 3,4, 10, 159, 16, 19, 21-36, 39-60, 63-71, 77-80, 90 and the final chapbook is an Aberdeen printing by James Clark titled ‘Sir James the Rose’. Examples of the titles within include : Emmy and Nancy of Yarmouth; The Tragical History of Gill Morice; The Wandering Young Gentlewoman, or the At Skins’ Garland; The Penny Worth of Wits Garland, in Three parts; Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship; The Battle of Roslin; The Humourous Adventures of Jump Jim Crow; Kate Dalrymple and the Flowers of the Forest and The Drunken Exciseman.

DESCRIPTION: Green cloth titled ‘PAMPHLETS’ over red morocco label to spine. A neat, clean collection.