Skip to main content

Adventures and adventurers > Surprizing adventures, of Jack Oakum, & Tom Splicewell

1 to 24 of 24

1 to 24 of 24

Context
Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Adventures and adventurers > Surprizing adventures, of Jack Oakum, & Tom Splicewell
Surprizing adventures, of Jack Oakum, & Tom Splicewell
Permanent URLhttps://digital.nls.uk/104185300
DescriptionTwo sailors, who went a pirating on the King's highway. How that the first prize they took gave information of their course, and being pursued by a whole squadron, Tom Splicewell was taken and condemned to be hanged; but by means of his beloved friend Jack Oakum, who interceeded with His Majesty, he was pardoned Also a copy of Jack's polite letter to the king, on the above occasion. To which is added, The merry revenge; or, Joe's stomach in tune. [Glasgow? : Publisher not identified], Printed in the year, 1798.
ShelfmarkL.C.2833(13)
Additional NLS resources:
Attribution and copyright:
  • The physical item used to create this digital version is out of copyright
Display more information More information
Form / genre: >
Dates / events: [Date printed]
Places: (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:





To find similar items, select the checkboxes next to the characteristics you are interested in, then select the 'Find similar' button.
Adventures and adventurers
Chapbooks printed in Scotland
DescriptionOver 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides.
Additional NLS resources:
  • Street literature about Napoleon's wars
    Collection of 78 Scottish chapbooks recounting events from the late 1790s to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Cheap print booklets mostly containing ballads about the military conflicts. Also give insights into contemporary views of Napoleon Bonaparte, Josephine de Beauharnais, Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington.
  • A brief introduction to chapbooks
    A one-page introduction to chapbooks, with information about the 4,000 held in our Rare Book collections.
  • Broadsides website, 'The word on the street'
    Discover early news stories and ballads that informed and entertained Scots between 1650 and 1910 as you browse around 1,800 broadsides.
Display more information More information
Person / organisation: [Publisher]

To find similar items, select the checkboxes next to the characteristics you are interested in, then select the 'Find similar' button.