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Thread #157395 Message #3714710
Posted By: Steve Gardham
05-Jun-15 - 06:31 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Merman / blow ye winds
Subject: RE: Origins: Merman / blow ye winds
Okay,
Try this. Go to the website. Click on Search. In the titles box put Merman. This should take you to Firth Collection c26 (152) which is a broadside of the song printed by Pearson of Manchester c1870s, stock number 62. The same copy is in the Holt Collection in Manchester No.381. With it having a low stock number it is likely to have been printed by his predecessor Bebbington, unless it was part of a new series printed by Pearson.