Ritson's North-Country Chorister 1809

Ritson's North-Country Chorister 1809
Author	Joseph Ritson
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	chapbook
Publisher	Joseph Ritson
Publication date	1809
Media type	Print
Pages	20 pages and 6 works

Ritson's North-Country Chorister , Edited and published by Joseph Ritson, is a revised edition of a book on Durham music, published in 1809.

Details edit

Ritson's North-Country Chorister (or to give it its full title - “The North-Country Chorister; An unparalleled variety of excellent songs. Collected and published together, for general Amusement, by a Bishoprick Ballad-Singer [Edited by the Late Joseph Ritson, Esq.] ---- To drink good ale to clear my throat, To hear the bagpipes sprightly note, This is the life that pleaseth me. To ramble round the North Country, ---- Durham: printed by L. Pennington, Bookseller. MDCCCII Licensed and entered according to Order ---- London: reprinted for Robert Triphook, 37, St. Jame's Street. By Harding and Wright, St. John's-square ---- 1809”) is a book of North Eastern folk songs consisting of 20 pages with 6 works, first published in 1802 and reprinted (this edition) in 1809.

Other books in Ritson’s Garland series were Ritson's Bishopric Garland, The Yorkshire Garland and The Northumberland Garland. A compilation of the whole series, entitled The Northern Garland was published in 1810.^[1]

The “Garland” series were important, not only as 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 edit

The front cover of the book was as thus :-

THE
North-Country
CHORISTER;
AN
UNPARALLELED VARIETY
OF
EXCELENT SONGS.
Collected and published together, for
general Amusement,
BY
A BISHOPRICK BALLAD-SINGER
[EDITED BY THE LATE
JOSEPH RITSON, ESQ.]
- - - - - - -
To drink good ale to clear my throat,
To hear the bagpipes sprightly note,
To ramble round the North Country,
This is the life that pleaseth me.
- - - - - - -
DURHAM:
PRINTED BY L. PENNINGTON, BOOKSELLER
. MDCCCII
Licensed and entered according to Order
- - - - - - -
LONDON:
REPRINTED FOR ROBERT TRIPHOOK, 37, ST. JAME'S STREET.
By Harding and Wright, St. John's-square.
- - - - - - -
1809

Contents edit

are as below :-

	title	notes

cover	The North-Country Chorister
	contents
3	Tommy Linn	Song I
5	Randle a Barnaby	Song II
9	Joyful Maid and sorrowful Wife - (The)	Song III
12	New Highland Lad - (The)	Song IV
14	Laddy Lye near me	Song V
15	Bonny Scot made a gentleman - (The)	Song VI
19	FINIS

References edit

^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. pp. volume 48 page 329.

External links edit

[1] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. pp. volume 48 page 329.

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