Publisher Mawson, Swan & Morgan Media type Print Country United Kingdom | Publication date 1888 Originally published 1888 Genre Chapbook | |
Language English (Geordie dialect) Pages approximately 35 songs with lyrics and some music Similar Rhymes of Northern Bards, Chaplets from Coquet‑side, Border Notes & Mixty‑ma | ||
A Beuk o’ Newcassell Sangs is a pictorial book giving details of local songs, including the lyrics and in many cases, the music, and all beautifully illustrated with the author's own woodcuts. It was published in 1888. It was reprinted in 1965 by Harold Hill, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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A Beuk o’ Newcassell Sangs – (full title – A Beuk o’ Newcassell Sangs Collected by Joseph Crawhall Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mawson, Swan & Morgan, M.D. CCC.LXXXVIII) is a book containing approximately 35 songs complete with their lyrics, and in some cases, the music.
The Geordie folk songs all relate in some way or other to North East England, and many are in Geordie dialect. It was edited by Joseph Crawhall II.
The publication
It is, as the title suggests, a collection of sangs (or in English "songs") from the Newcassel (or "Newcastle") area.
Contents
Are as below :-