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Emigration and immigration

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	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > Emigrant [104184116] Author: Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817 Printer: Robertson, J. (Joseph), 1726-1802 Author: Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771 Date printed: 1796
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > Her blue rollin e'e [104184614] Author: Grieve, John, 1781-1836 Date printed: 1822
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > Sair sair was my heart [104184645] Probable date printed: 1815-1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > Sair sair was my heart [104184647] Probable date printed: 1815-1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > My bonnie Mary [104184683] Author: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 Probable date printed: 1815-1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > My bonnie Mary [104184686] Probable date printed: 1815-1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > Collection of popular songs [104184698] Probable date printed: 1815-1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > Peasant of Auburn [104185843] Publisher: Brash & Reid (Glasgow, Scotland) Author: Coombe, Thomas, 1747-1822 Date printed: 1797
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > Jim Crow [104185950] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > Bundle and go [104186758] Printer: Macnie, William Probable date printed: 1820-1830
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > Home, sweet home [104186772] Printer: Macnie, William Date printed: 1829
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > Sair sair was my heart [104186806] Printer: Macnie, William Date printed: 1826
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > Emigrant [104187173] Author: Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817 Probable date printed: 1800
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration > Full and true account, of the cruel sufferings of the passengers on board the brig Nancy bound for New-York [104187182] Probable date printed: 1795

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Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Emigration and immigration

Emigration and immigration
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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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