Soldiers & sailors

Roving bachelor

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(1) Roving bachelor
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74892298
Description	The roving bachelor - first line reads: Come all you roving bachelors that mean to take a wife. Fair Phoebe and her dark-ey'd sailor - first line reads: Its of a comely young lady fair.
Shelfmark	Crawford.EB.1859
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides Images > Pictures > Illustrations
Dates / events:	1850 [Date printed] 1800-1900 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England (country) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Woodcuts (prints) Ballads Sailors Bachelors Marriage (social construct)
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English ballads
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Description	Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
Attribution and copyright:	Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1800-1900 [Date printed]
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