| Ritson's Yorkshire Garland 1809 | |
| Author: | Joseph Ritson |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | chapbook |
| Publisher: | Joseph Ritson |
| Release Date: | 1809 |
| Media Type: | |
| Pages: | 32 pages and 6 works |
Ritson's Yorkshire Garland, edited and published by Joseph Ritson, is a reprinted edition of a book on Yorkshire music, first published in 1788.
Yorkshire Garland 1809 (or to give it its full title - “The Yorkshire Garland; is a curious collection of old and new songs, concerning that famous county. [Edited by the Late Joseph Ritson, Esq.] ---- Part I. ----York: printed by N. Frobisher; and sold by J. Langdale, Northallerton MDCCLXXXVIII Licensed and entered according to Order ----London: reprinted by R. Triphook, St.Jame's Street; By Harding and Wright, St. John's-square. 1809”) is a book of folk songs consisting of 32 pages with 6 works, published in 1788. A further edition (this edition) was reprinted in 1809[1]
Other books in Ritson’s Garland series were Bishopric Garland, The Northumberland Garland, and The North-Country Chorister. A compilation of the whole series, entitled The Northern Garland was published in 1810.[2]
The “Garland” series was important, not only as an important document in its own right, but as one of the main sources of similar successor publications such as John Bell's Rhymes of Northern Bards and Bruce and Stokoe's Northumbrian Minstrelsy.
A set of original documents are held in The Robinson Library of Newcastle University
The front cover of the book was as thus :-
THE
YORKSHIRE GARLAND;
BEING
A CURIOUS COLLECTION
OF
OLD AND NEW
SONGS,
CONCERNING THAT FAMOUS COUNTY.
[EDITED BY THE LATE<br/ >
JOSEPH RITSON, ESQ.]
PART I.
- - - - - - -
YORK
PRINTED BY N. FROBISHER; AND SOLD BY J. LANGDALE
NORTHALLERTON
MDCCLXXXVIII
Licensed and entered according to Order
- - - - - - -
LONDON:
REPRINTED BY R. TRIPHOOK, ST.JAME'S STREET;
By Harding and Wright, St. John's-square.
1809
are as below :-
| width=70 abbr="page" | width=250 abbr="title of song" | title | width=170 abbr="author" | songwriter | width=170 abbr="tune/air" | tune | width=150abbr="comments" | comments | width=150abbr="notes" | notes | width=15 abbr="reference" | ref | |
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| cover | The Yorkshire Garland | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Contents | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Yorker, Yorker, for my monies - A new Yorkshire Song Intituled | W. E. (William Elder ton) | |||||||||||
| 12 | Horse Race - (The) | Song II | |||||||||||
| 15 | pattern of true love - (The) or Bowes Tragedy | a story | the spelling in the book | ||||||||||
| 15 | comment on | Roger Wright son and Martha Rail ton | |||||||||||
| 16 | clarification of Counties | Bowes and Barnard Castle | |||||||||||
| 17 | name of a friend | Thomas Petty | |||||||||||
| 18 | Bowes Tragedy | Queen Dido | Song III | ||||||||||
| 24 | True and tragical song concerning Captain John Bolton &c - (A) | Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside | Song IV | ||||||||||
| 24 | comment on | The story | |||||||||||
| 24 | comment on Captain John Bolton (murderer) | Captain John Bolton of Bulmer near Castle-Howard | |||||||||||
| 24 | comment on the victim | Elizabeth Rainbow of Ackwoth | |||||||||||
| 27 | In praise of Yarm | Song V | |||||||||||
| 29 | Gamblers fitted - (The) | Song VI | |||||||||||
| 31 | FINIS |
Joseph Ritson
Ritson's Northern Garlands 1810
Ritson's Bishopric Garland or Durham Minstrel 1792
Ritson's Northumberland Garland or Newcastle Nightingale 1809
Ritson's North-Country Chorister 1809