Scottish Chapbook (4 results)

8 page chapbook with woodcut on upper wrapper. Printed on cheap thin paper. From the National Library of Scotland website: "Over 3,000 chapbooks were published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides.".

8pp. Woodcut illustration to title page. Single sheet, printed on both sides, folded and unopened as issued. A trifle creased and toned. A late Georgian Scottish chapbook, in original state, comprised of four ballads, including the perennially popular 'Green Grow the Rashes, O', composed by Robert Burns in 1784. Size: 8vo.

8pp. Woodcut illustration to title page. Two sheets, printed on both sides, folded and unstitched as issued. A trifle creased, small hole to margin if second leaf. A Stirling printed chapbook, in original state, comprised of five songs in Scots dialect, including 'The Highland Plaid', a Romantic ballad in which a Highlander attempts to woo a girl from the Lowlands. Size: 8vo.

8pp. Woodcut illustration to title page. Single sheet, printed on both sides, folded and unopened as issued. A trifle creased, toned, and dust-soiled. A Paisley printed chapbook, in original state, comprised of three popular late Georgian songs, partially composed in Scots dialect, and including an amusing nine verse ballad celebrating the benefits, and indeed detriments, of drinking whiskey: 'Whiskey secrets ne'er can keep, / Whiskey aften tells the truth, / Whiskey is a friend o'sleep, / Whiskey maks a grey hair'd youth'. Size: 8vo.