Elegiac poetry

'Elegiac poetry' contains the following 28 items:

	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Elegy on the year eighty-eight [104184114] Author: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 Printer: Willison, David, active 1769-1820 Date printed: 1799
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Bride's burial, or, The affectionate lovers [104184208] Printer: M'Lachlan, Cuthbert Probable date printed: 1812
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Monthly scrap book, for August [104184309] Printer: Miller, John, 1780-1852 Date published: 1832
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Last guinea [104184325] Date printed: 1727
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > General Abercrombie's Elegy [104184657] Date printed: 1821
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Lag's elegy, or, The prince of darkness [104184852] Date printed: 1814
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Elegy in memory of that valient champion, Sir Robert Grierson, late laird of Lag, or, The Prince of Darkness [104184862] Printer: Johnston, Thomas (Printer) Date printed: 1823
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Lag's elegy, or, The prince of darkness [104184944] Date printed: 1814
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Elocutionist [104185101] Printer: Johnston, Thomas (Printer) Probable date printed: 1815-1830
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Verses to the memory of Robert Burns [104185842] Publisher: Brash & Reid (Glasgow, Scotland) Date published: 1797
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Elegy in memory of that valiant champion, Sir Robert Grierson of Lag; who died Decem. 23d, 1733 [104185847] Probable date printed: 1796-1798
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Sir Neil and Glengyle, the Highand chieftains [104185927] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Spouter's companion [104186038] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Elegy in memory of that valiant champion, Sir R. Grierson, late Laird of Lag, who died Dec. 23d, 1733 [104186053] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Memoir of the Reverend David Wilson [104186205] Printer: Crawford, Hugh, active 1805-1851 Date printed: 1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Elegy on Sir Robert Grierson, of Lag, who died December 23d, 1733, or, The prince of darkness' lamentation for the Laird of Lag, and others [104186214] Printer: Crawford, Hugh, active 1805-1851 Date printed: 1817
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Seven excellent songs [104186291] Printer: McNairn, Joseph, active 1820-1837 Probable date printed: 1820-1837
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Poetical pieces on various subjects [104186629] Printer: Randall, C. (Charles), 1749-1812 Author: Maxwell, John, active 1740-1761 Probable date printed: 1810
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Garland of songs [104186757] Printer: Macnie, William Probable date printed: 1820-1830
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Said a smile to a tear [104186889] Printer: J. Fraser & Co. Probable date printed: 1816-1820
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Fairfa' the lasses [104186891] Printer: J. Fraser & Co. Probable date printed: 1816-1820
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Traveller's return [104186900] Printer: J. Fraser & Co. Probable date printed: 1816-1820
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Traveller's return [104186906] Printer: J. Fraser & Co. Probable date printed: 1816-1820
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Fairfa' the lasses [104186908] Printer: J. Fraser & Co. Probable date printed: 1816-1820
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Theatrical speaker [104187146] Date printed: 1840
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Elegy on the much lamented death, of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Monteith, late Minister of the Gospel in Dunse, who departed this life the 22d of May, 1787 [104187184] Author: Love, David, 1750-1827 Date printed: 1787
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Sir Neil and Glengyle, the Highand chieftains [104187192] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry > Elegy on Jamie Gemmill, tailor [104187198] Date printed: 1820

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Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Elegiac poetry

Elegiac poetry
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Chapbooks printed in Scotland
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Description	Over 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.

Person / organisation:	Cumming, John (Publisher) [Publisher]
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