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Suicide

'Suicide' contains the following 17 items:

	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Celebrated ballad of the lass of Fair Wone, or, The parson's daughter betrayed [104184191] Printer: Black & Co., (Printers of Brechin) Author: Bürger, Gottfried August, 1747-1794 Date printed: 1832
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Deserter [104184216] Printer: Miller, George, 1771- Probable date printed: 1795-1804 Probable date printed: 1795-1804
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Dutchess of Newcastle's lament [104184235] Printer: J. & M. Robertson Date printed: 1802
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Jamie and Nancy of Yarmouth [104184392] Printer: Morren, John, active 1784-1822 Probable date printed: 1800
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Jamie and Nancy of Yarmouth's garland [104184574] Probable date printed: 1780
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Tragedy of, Jamie and Nancy of Yarmouth [104184575] Date printed: 1787
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Fair Margaret's misfortunes [104184650] Probable date printed: 1815-1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Six excellent new songs [104184884] Printer: Johnston, Thomas (Printer) Probable date printed: 1810-1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Surprising and melancholy account of Richard Smith [104185100] Date printed: 1785
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Two old songs [104185142] Probable date printed: 1830-1840
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Unfortunate fair, or, The sad disaster [104185394] Date printed: 1801
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Death of Bill Jones [104185510] Printer: R. Hutchison & Co. Date printed: 1816
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Lass of fair wone, or, The parson's daugter [sic] betrayed [104185955] Author: Bürger, Gottfried August, 1747-1794 Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Four songs [104186244] Probable date printed: 1815-1820
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Sailor's tragedy [104186569] Printer: Macnie, William Date printed: 1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Sailor's tragedy [104186788] Printer: Macnie, William Date printed: 1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide > Fair Margaret's misfortunes [104186866] Printer: Macnie, William Probable date printed: 1820-1830

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Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Suicide

Suicide
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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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