Country United Kingdom Media type Print Publisher Matthew C. James | Publication date 1898 Originally published 1898 Genre Chapbook | |
Language English (Geordie dialect) Pages approximately 28 pages and 14 songs | ||
James' Sum Tyneside Sangs 1898 is a chapbook on Tyneside music, published in 1898.
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Sum Tyneside Sangs (or to give it its full title – "Sum Tyneside Sangs: A collection of Prize Songs, &c, in the Tyneside Dialect, by Matt. C. James ---- Reprinted from the "Newcastle Weekly Chronicle" and the "North of England Almanac" ----Price Threepence ---- Newcastle-upon-Tyne Printed by Andrew Reid & Company, Limited ---- 1898 ”) is a book of Geordie folk song, all written by Matthew C. James, consisting of approximately 28 pages with 14 songs, published in 1898.
A later edition taking 48 pages was reprinted and was sold in Aid of the Jarrow "Guild of Help"
The publication
The front cover of the book was as thus :-
SUM TYNESIDE SANGS:
A COLLECTON OF
Prize Songs, &c, in the Tyneside Dialect,
BY
MATT. C. JAMES.
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Reprinted from the "Newcastle Weekly Chronicle" and the
"North of England Almanac"
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PRICE THREEPENCE
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne
PRINTED BY ANDREW REID & COMPANY, LIMITED.
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1898