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Thread #71097   Message #1215031
Posted By: Emma B
27-Jun-04 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Broadsides from Scotland
Subject: RE: Tech: Broadsides from Scotland
Not Scotland but I've recently bought the book of Thomas Ford's Ballad collection from the 1830's (published Llanerch press)         "- an intriguing, and possibly unique, glimpse into the songs that the people of Chesterfield were buying and singing at that time. Thomas Ford worked in Chesterfield as a printer bookseller and stationer. Ford's stock book contains a total of 167 sheets, most of them bearing an identifying number. The ballads are particularly valuable because they are the near complete stock of a particular printer, and because few of them appear to have been preserved elsewhere."

I just like the book as a microcosm of social history and ghastly woodcuts!