The Duke of Gordon's daughters ; to which is added, The challenge.
Bibliographic Citation:
The Duke of Gordon's daughters ; to which is added, The challenge. Stirling : Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, by W. Macnie, bookseller, [ca. 1826]
Alternative Title:
Challenge
Publisher:
Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, by W. Macnie, bookseller, [ca. 1826]
Notes:
  • Verse.
  • Cover title.
  • Cover included in pagination.
  • Undated; pamphlets with this imprint date from between 1820 and 1830 (cf. Meriton, J. Small books, p. 986 (97)).
  • First line of first ballad: "The Duke of Gordon had three daughters."
  • First 2 lines of "The challenge": "You Gallic Gasconaders, Your boats of war prepare."
  • Includes one woodcut (title vignette of a man about to cut down a tree with an axe).
  • Citations/References: NSTC 2G14282
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 14 cm.
Language:
English
Subject:
Ballads, Scottish -- Texts
Chapbooks, Scottish -- Specimens.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Genre/Form:
Chapbooks -- Scotland -- Stirling -- 19th century.
Chapbook Category:
Metrical Tales and Other Verse
Call Number:
PN970 M336 D85 1826 Rare Books/Special Collections
Digital Collection:
McGill Library's Chapbook Collection
Copyright:
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Link to this chapbook:
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=8058
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_M336_D85_1826