The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135870   Message #3688171
Posted By: Steve Gardham
23-Dec-14 - 04:23 PM
Thread Name: Why 'in a pear-tree?'
Subject: RE: Why 'in a pear-tree?'
Q dates the Angus printing 1774-1825. Looking at the condition of my copy I would say about 1810. It is very clearly/neatly printed but uses the old seraph s which was beginning to die out about 1800. If the pear tree cages were 'Victorian' then the song must predate the use of the cages, hence my theory above. You now need an antiques expert to take this further.