Country United Kingdom Publication date 1809 Pages 32 pages and 6 works | Language English Media type Print Originally published 1809 Genre Chapbook | |
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Ritson's Yorkshire Garland , Edited and published by Joseph Ritson, is a reprinted edition of a book on Yorkshire music, first published in 1788.
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Yorkshire Garland 1809 (or to give it its full title - “The Yorkshire Garland; being a curious collection of old and new songs, concerning that famous county. [Edited by the late John 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
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.
The “Garland” series were important, not only an important document in their 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 publication
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
JOHN RITSON, ESQ.]
PART I.
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YORK
PRINTED BY N. FROBISHER; AND SOLD BY J. LANGDALE
NORTHALLERTON
MDCCLXXXVIII
Licensed and entered according to Order
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LONDON:
REPRINTED BY R. TRIPHOOK, ST.JAME'S STREET;
By Harding and Wright, St. John's-square.
1809
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