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The Wife of Beith; With a description of her Journey to Heaven.

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"The Wife of Bath's Tale (Middle English: the Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. " Wikipedia

Tags: # of Woodcuts: 1, Bib Context: title-page, Chapbook Date: 1841-1850, Chapbook Genre: religion & morals, Chapbook Publisher - Edinburgh: Printed for the Booksellers, Nature: cloud(s), Nature: tree(s), Occupation: soldier, Outdoor Scene, Religious Figures: Jesus Christ

The Wife of Beith: With a Description of Her Journey to Heaven

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Inspired by Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, this tale describes the Wife’s journey after death. As the Wife travels first to hell and then to heaven, she is rejected by the Devil – who does not wish to be harried by her scornful tongue – and then a long…

Tags: # of Woodcuts: 1, Bib Context: title-page, Chapbook Date: 1841-1850, Chapbook Genre: religion & morals, Chapbook Publisher - Falkirk: Printed for the Bookseller, Gender: man/men, Nature: cloud(s), Nature: tree(s), Occupation: soldier, Religious Figures: Jesus Christ

Burns' Songs. No.1. Illustrated.

Woodcut portraying a old man wearing hat, long coat, and striped socks and leaning against a walking stick in outdoor scene

Tags: # of Woodcuts: 11, Bib Context: title-page, Chapbook Date: 1851-1860, Chapbook Date: 1861-1870, Chapbook Genre: ballads & songs, Chapbook Publisher - Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, Fashion (Clothing): Highland attire, Fashion (Clothing): working class, Gender: man/men, Nature: hill(s), Object: sporran/purse, Object: walking stick/ staff, Outdoor Scene

Domestic Happiness Exhibited, in I. The Fireside. A Poem. By Dr. Cotton. II. John Anderson, My Joe. Improved

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Tags: # of Woodcuts: 0, Chapbook Date: 1791-1800, Chapbook Genre: poetry, Chapbook Publisher - Glasgow: Brash & Reid

The Exile : Or the Banished Patriot. A Poem. To which are added, An Inscription in an Hermitage. and The Lovely Lass of Inverness. A Favourite Scots Song. By Robert Burns. The Airshire Poet.

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Tags: # of Woodcuts: 0, Chapbook Date: 1791-1800, Chapbook Genre: ballads & songs, Chapbook Genre: poetry, Chapbook Publisher - Glasgow: Brash & Reid

Six Popular Songs. Coming through the rye. Say, my heart, why wildly beating. When I was an infant. Jockie to the fair. Katty O'Lynch. There was a jolly miller.

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Tags: # of Woodcuts: 1, Architecture: fence, Bib Context: title-page, Chapbook Date: 1811-1820, Chapbook Genre: ballads & songs, Chapbook Publisher - Edinburgh: Printed for the Booksellers, Gender: man/men, Gender: woman/women, Nature: tree(s), Outdoor Scene

A Collection of Songs, &c. No. XIII Containing The Laird O' Cockpen. The Row. John Anderson My Jo. Moggy Adair. Unfortunate Mary. And Sae will we yet.

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Tags: Bib Context: title-page, Chapbook Date: 1811-1820, Chapbook Genre: ballads & songs, Chapbook Publisher - Edinburgh: Printed for the Booksellers, Fashion (Clothing): upper class, Gender: man/men, Gender: woman/women, Indoor Scene, Object: curtain(s), Object: walking stick/ staff

The Ewie wi' the Crooked Horn; To which are added, She lives in the Valley below, The Star of the East, The Mill, Mill, O, On Friendship.

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The Echo of Friars-Carse Hermitage; also, Avon's Stream: A Dirge. To which are added, Verses, Written in the high church-yard, Glasgow.

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The chapbook begins with an ‘advertisement’/inscription by Robert Burns, humbly submitting his poems to the reader’s pleasure. The first poem focuses on the grief and joy of life, love, beauty, and nature, while the second poem is a lament over the…

The Scottish minstrel containing a selection of the most popular songs of Scotland. as sung by Wilson, Templeton, &c. Sixth Series

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Sixth part in a series of chapbooks on Scottish ballads. Author, tune, and composer are noted where known. Includes a total of thirty-three ballads on a variety of topics, including songs of war, the Highlands, death and mourning, humour, drinking,…

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