Ritson's Yorkshire Garland 1809

Ritson's Yorkshire Garland , Edited and published by Joseph Ritson, is a reprinted edition of a book on Yorkshire music, first published in 1788.

Ritson's Yorkshire Garland 1809

Author	Joseph Ritson
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	chapbook
Publisher	Joseph Ritson
Publication date	1809
Media type	Print
Pages	32 pages and 6 works

Details

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[1]

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.[2]

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.
- - - - - - -
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

Contents

are as below :-

	title	songwriter	tune	comments	notes	ref
cover	The Yorkshire Garland
1	Contents
3	Yorker, Yorker, for my monies - A new Yorkshire Song Intituled	W. E. (William Elder ton)
12	Horse Race - (The)				Song II
15	pattern of true love - (The) or Bowes Tragedy	a story		the spelling in the book
15	comment on	Roger Wright son and Martha Rail ton
16	clarification of Counties	Bowes and Barnard Castle
17	name of a friend	Thomas Petty
18	Bowes Tragedy		Queen Dido		Song III
24	True and tragical song concerning Captain John Bolton &c - (A)		Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside		Song IV
24	comment on	The story
24	comment on Captain John Bolton (murderer)	Captain John Bolton of Bulmer near Castle-Howard
24	comment on the victim	Elizabeth Rainbow of Ackwoth
27	In praise of Yarm				Song V
29	Gamblers fitted - (The)				Song VI
31	FINIS

See also

Joseph Ritson
Ritson's Northern Garlands 1810
Ritson's Bishopric Garland or Durham Minstrel 1792
Ritson's Northumberland Garland or Newcastle Nightingale 1809
Ritson's North-Country Chorister 1809

References

1. Google e-book Northern Garland.
2. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. pp. volume 48 page 329.

External links

• Allan’s Illustrated Edition of Tyneside songs and readings - page 512
• Google e-book Northern Garland
• Google e-book