Title: Collection of ballads, songsheets.
Published: <Edinburgh? : J. Pitts, 1805-1840?>.
Description: 2 v. ; 26-28 cm.
Subjects, Library of Congress (Use s=):
  Ballads, English.
  Broadsides--England.
Contributors: Pitts, J.
Notes: Title supplied; imprint dates taken from dealer's catalogue (Elkin Mathews. Catalog 98, item 38. 1944). The collection is composed of 216 broadside ballads. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LOCATION: CALL NUMBER: STATUS:
WILSON Rare Books Quarto 820.1 Z (Non-Circulating)

For most of the ballads included in this collection the city of publication was in fact London, not Edinburgh. See Leslie Shepard, John Pitts: Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844 (London: Private Libraries Association, 1969).

Selected ballads from this collection:

• The Barrow Girl
• The Berkshire Tragedy; Or, The Wittam Miller
• The Bold Irishman
• Bold Robin Hood
• The Bonnet So Blue
• Cold Haily, Rainy Night
• The Contented Wife
• Draw the Sword, Scotland
• The Faithless Captain or Betrayed Virgin
• Green Grow the Rashes
• A New Song on the Catholic Emancipation
• The Protestant Song
• Scots, wha hae wi Wallace Bled
• <more to be added>

Michael Hancher
Department of English, University of Minnesota
URL: <http://umn.edu/home/mh/pitts.html>
Comments to: mh@umn.edu
Created 15 May 1997
Revised 30 June 1997