Country United Kingdom Media type Print Originally published 1883 Genre Chapbook | Publication date 1883 Pages over 100 pages Publisher Marshall Cresswell | |
Language English (Geordie dialect) | ||
Cresswell's Local and other Songs, Recitations, Etc. 1883 (or to give it is's full title – "Local and other Songs, Recitations, Etc Composed by Marshall Cresswell, Dudley, Northumberland. With Introductory Autobiography (second edition) Illustrated by J. W. Marcke. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. W. Chater 61 & 62 Grainger Street, West, 21, Collingwood Street, 89, Clayton Street, and "Cross House", Westgate Road and all Booksellers 1883" is a Chapbook of Geordie folk song consisting of over 100 pages, published in 1883.
Contents
The publication
Marshall Cresswell wrote all the songs and a set of the original documents are retained in the archives of Border History Museum, Hexham.
The front cover of the book was as thus :-
LOCAL AND OTHER
SONGS, RECITATIONS,
ETC
COMPOSED BY
MARSHALL CRESSWELL
DUDLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND
WITH
INTRODUCTORY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
(SECOND EDITION)
ILLUSTRATED BY J. W. MARCKE
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
J. W. CHATER 61 & 62 GRAINGER STREET, WEST
21, COLLINGWOOD STREET
89, CLAYTON STREET, AND
"CROSS HOUSE", WESTGATE ROAD
AND ALL BOOKSELLERS
1883
Contents
are as below :-