A COLLECTION OF SONGS, by the inimitable Captain Morris.
Published by London: printed for James Ridgeway opposite Sackville-Street Piccadilly, 1786
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Seller: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, United KingdomChristopher Edwards ABA ILAB
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8vo, two parts, pp. [3]-33, [1] blank, [2] advertisements; 23, [1] advertisements; lightly browned throughout; last page (the final advertisement) stained; in later wrappers. A collection of risqué songs by the famous 'the inimitable' Captain Charles Morris (1745-1838), who sang and recited his songs and rhymes, first in London taverns and then in polite (and often not so polite) London society. His political allegiance was to the Foxite whigs, and the anti-Pittite songs here include 'Billy Pitt and the Farmer', and 'Billy's too young to drive us'. However, Morris also had a line in obscene songs, and three of them are printed here in the second part: 'The Plenipotentiary' (about a hugely well-endowed Turk who visits London), 'Jenny Sutton' (on an army prostitute) and 'The Tree of Life' (in celebration of well, use your imagination). These are certainly much more than suggestive, and a good corrective to the idea that the late 18th century was a time of politeness and fluttering eyelashes: not even the dashes can disguise the obscenity. These songs are often missing from copies, and this must be the reason why the ESTC entry (T7257) is so misleading: it implies that the book ends with the title page to the second part. It seems very possible that many copies were destroyed altogether, and that of the few which survive, many or most have had the text of the second section removed, leaving only the title page to testify to its existence. ESTC currently shows only six copies, at the British Library, National Trust and National Library of Scotland in the UK; Yale and Huntington in the USA; and the Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand. Out of these six, the last four are certainly lacking part 2, and it is quite possible that the BL and NT copies do so as well. Roger Lonsdale printed two of Morris's poems (but not the obscene ones) in the New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A COLLECTION OF SONGS, by the inimitable Captain Morris.
- Author
- MORRIS, Charles.
- Publisher
- London: printed for James Ridgeway opposite Sackville-Street Piccadilly
- Publication year
- 1786
- Binding
- Soft cover
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- Poetry
Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB
Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, United Kingdom
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