Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Volume 2

by Patrick Spedding, Paul Watt, Ed Cray, David Gregory, Derek B Scott

Overview

The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away. Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138750371
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/01/2011
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Items Published by William West (1836–42), Edited by Ed Cray.

Table of Contents

Volume 2: Items published by William West (1836-42) The New Cockolorum Songster with a Collection of Rummy Toasts; The Cuckold's Nest of Choice, Flash, Smutty, and Delicious Songs, with Rummy Toasts; The Little Icky-Wickey Songster. A New Collection of Delicious and Luxurious Staves; Th[e] Ri-tum Ti-fum Songster: A Slashing, Dashing, Leary, Frisky, and Delicious Collection of Gentlemen's Songs; The Ticklish Minstrel! A most Bewitching Collection of the Very Best and most Truly Lecherous and Delicious Vocal Tit-Bits Ever Printed; The Gentleman's Sparkling Songster, Nothing but Regular Good, Slashing, Touching, Irresistible, Amatory Ditties; The Rambler's Flash Songster, Nothing but Out and Outers, Adapted for Gentlemen Only; The Flash Chaunter, a Slashing, Dashing, Friskey, and Delecious Collection of Gentlemen's Songs; The Gentleman's Spicey Songster, a most Bewitching Collection of the Very Best and Truly Delicious Tit-Bits Ever Printed; The Gentleman's Steeple-Chaser, a Choice Selection of Flash Songs!!!; Nancy Dawson's Cabinet of Choice Songs, Being a Collection of some of the most Superlative, Amatory, Flash, Luxurious, and Dainty Ditties, Ever Before Printed; The Nobby Songster, a Prime Selection as now Singing at Offleys Cider Cellar: Coal Hole &c.