CHAPBOOKS, LATE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURY: A sammelband of 15 chapbooks (in 16)

[CHAPBOOKS, LATE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH & SCOTTISH]. A sammelband of 15 chapbooks (in 16), each a 12mo, bound in 19th century plain red boards (corners rubbed), brown morocco back, lettered in gold, "Olio of Wonders." Other than some browning of the earlier chapbooks, the condition is uniformly nearly fine.

1. A Garland of New Songs. Paddy Carey. Battle of the Nile. Nancy's Journal. The Galley Slave. 8pp., woodcut vignette on title. Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, n.d. [ca. 1810-1820?].

2. A Garland of New Songs. Daft Watty's Ramble to Carlisle. I was the Boy for bewitching 'em. Mary once had Lovers two. The little Farthing Rush-Light. Paddy O'Leary. 8pp., woodcut vignette on title. Newcastle upon Tyne [ca. 1802].

OCLC locates 8 copies in this country (Cornell; Yale; Northwestern; Univ. Ky; Johns Hopkins; Washington Univ.; Princeton; Univ. of Utah), and four others; two in Australia, one in Canada, and one at the Univ. of Newcastle.

3. The Playful and Delightful History of Jack and the Giants. Part First [Part Second]. 12pp. 10, total woodcuts. Nottingham: Printed for the Running Stationers, n.d. [ca. 1775].

Two parts, complete. ESTC, which suggests the date of "[1800?]," records this title as having been first printed in Derby, 1775, not Nottingham, locating one copy (Chetham's Library, Manchester). We follow Alderson & Oyens, Be Merry and Wise: Origins of Children's Book Publishing in England, 1650-1850 (The Pierpont Morgan Library, 2006),#49 wherein the Morgan Library copy is dated 1775. Cropper, Percy J, The Nottinghamshire Printed Chap-Books (1892), #'s 13, 14, identifies the printer as future Luddite Charles Sutton, which would be impossible if 1775 is correct as he was born in 1765. "The story was hugely popular as a chapbook, and was read avidly by Dr. Johnson, James Boswell, William Cowper, and Henry Fielding."-Carpenter and Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, p. 277. Osborne, p. 603. Ashton, Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, pp. 184-191. Gumuchian 3152 (guessing date as "1780").

4. Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained, by the Wonderful Works of God; shewing 1. The Creation of the World. 2. Man treated, and Woman taken out of his side. 3. Man's Fall. 4. Cain's slaying his Brother Abel. 5. God drowns the World. 6. The World redeemed by our Saviour's Crucifixion. 8pp. Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by J. Marshall, in the Old Flesh-Market, n.d. [ca. 1810].

A versification of the biblical narrative, having no relation to Milton's epics. We take from the British Library. Headed: Marshall's Religious Tracts. OCLC locates 6 copies (Huntington; Washington Univ.; Univ. Pennsylvania; Oxford; Cambridge; National Library of Scotland).

5. The Ghost of My Uncle. To which is added, the Outwitted Tax-Gatherer. 24pp., woodcut vignette on title. Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, n.d. [ca. 1840-1850?]. Date taken using evidence from a catalogue record from the National Library of Scotland. OCLC locates 8 copies; seven in the UK, one in Australia, none in this country, which is incorrect. Catalogue of English and American Chapbooks and Broadside Ballads in HarvardCollege Library (1968), #375.

6. The Sinner's Redemption or the Conversion of Joshua Tuckfield who was in a poor state of health for some time, when to all appearance he died, and continued so for the space of two hours and fifteen minutes; when to the surprise of all, he received new life, told them he had seen heaven and hell, and some persons he had known when on earth. 8pp., full-page woodcut of Heaven and Hell on p. 2. [Nottingham:] Sutton, Printer, Nottingham Review Office [1800].

With two hymns. Cropper, Nottinghamshire Printed Chap-Books #26, the issue with the number "3" at bottom left corner of title-page. ESTC locates 4 copies (BL; National Library of Scotland; Oxford; Princeton). OCLC adds Harvard.

7. Three Famous New Songs called Effects of Whiskey. The Valley Below. Larry O'Gaff. 8pp., woodcut vignette on title. Paisley: Printed by and for G. Caldwell, Jun. Bookseller, 60, High Street [ca. 1830]. OCLC locates 14 copies. Catalogue of English and American Chapbooks and Broadside Ballads in HarvardCollege Library (1968), #1610.

8. History of Sir William Wallace, the renowned Scottish Champion. 24pp., woodcut portrait of Wallace on title. Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, n.d. [ca. 1840's].

9. George and Britain save. To which are ad'ed [sic] The Plowman's Ditty. Lay they loof in mine lassie. By Logan Streams. 8pp., woodcut vignette on title. Stirling: Printed by W. Macnie, 1825. OCLC locates three copies (Florida State Univ.; Harvard; Washington Univ.). Catalogue of English and American Chapbooks and Broadside Ballads in HarvardCollege Library (1968), #337.

10. [SHIRLEY, John, attributed to]. The Famous History of the Valiant London 'Prentice. 24pp., illustrated with 12 woodcuts. [Nottingham:] Printed for the honourable Company of Walking Stationers [ca. 1780?].

A very popular illustrated chapbook which was published a number of times beginning in 1686. Under "John Shurley" Esdaile, p. 306, cites three editions possibly published during the 17th century, for which see, Barbara Louise Magaw, The Work of John Shirley, an Early Hack Writer, in PBSA, Third Quarter, 1962, pp. 332-345. ESTC records six copies at five institutions (BL; Oxford (2); Columbia; UCLA; Yale). Catalogue of English and American Chapbooks and Broadside Ballads in HarvardCollege Library (1968), records three undated London printings, but not this.

11. VINCENT, Henry. The Irish Assassin, or the Misfortunes of the Family of O'Donnel. 24pp., woodcut vignette on title. Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers [1840's].

12. The Substance of Three Sermons, Preached at Edinburgh, the 8th, 9th, and 10th days of July, 1787, by Moses the Jew, Who was lately converted to the Christian Religion. An account of his deliverance from the bloody hands of his father, who is a High Priest in German, who employed three ruffians to murder him, his narrow escape to London, his embracing the Christian Religion, How he came to Glasgow, where he preached several times... 8pp. [Nottingham: Charles Sutton] Re-printed in 1812.

Attributed to printer Charles Sutton by Percy J. Cropper, The Nottinghamshire Chap-Books (1892), p. 26. "Text substantially the same except for dates and minor details to 1795 chapbook presumed to hav been issued in Edinburgh (ESTC T199625)."-OCLC.

13, [SWALPO THE PICKPOCKET]. The Merry Folics of the Comical Cheats of Swalpo a Notorious Pickpocket and the Merry Pranks of Roger the Clown. [Illustrated].16pp., with 12 woodcuts. [London:] Seven Dials, Reprinted by J. Jones, Ballad-monger, n.d. [ca. 1825 or 1830].

OCLC locates one copy of the putative 1825 printing (Trinity College, Cambridge), and one from another supposedly printed in 1830 (National Library of Scotland). All editions are decidedly rare. A very popular chapbook printed a number of times in the last quarter of the 18th century, up to 1830. This printing has no punctuation after "Clown." "The practices at Bartholomew Fair are set forth. The tricks are coarse and vulgar, but ingenious and laughable enough."-Catalogue of English and American Chap-Books and Broadside Ballads in HarvardCollege Library (1905) #1826, citing an undated London printing, and several others, but not this.

14. The Wonderful Adventures of Sixteen British Seamen; also, A Cure for the Toothache. 24pp., woodcut vignette on title. Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, n.d. [ca. 1840's]. Number 103 at bottom of title.

15. [TANNAHILL, Robert]. The Braes o'Gleniffer; To which are added, Nancy's to the Greenwood gane, The Present Time is ours, The Miller of Dee. 8pp., woodcut vignette on title. Stirling: Printed by W. Macnie, 1825.

The complete lyrics of one of the best known songs of the weaver-poet Robert Tannahill (1774-1810), known as "Paisley's Son." "It refers to the wild and varied Gleniffer Braes in Renfrewshire where Tannahill liked to walk and find inspiration. The song is from a woman's point of view, recalling happy times with her sweetheart and expressing how different life is now that he has gone to war."-Mainly Norfolk: English and Scottish Folk and Other Good Music online. The song was sung on albums in 1996, 2005, and by Fiona Hunter in 2012. OCLC and ESTC record one earlier printing, Stirling, Randall, 1800, but that does not include the added songs. There was another printing in 1825 (all 5 copies located are in the UK) which did include the added songs, without the name of printer, followed by this Macnie printing of which OCLC records only the copy at St. Andrews University.