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Ritson's Bishopric Garland or Durham Minstrel 1792

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' Bishopric Garland or Durham Minstrel', Edited and published by Joseph Ritson, is a revised and corrected edition of a book on County Durham music, published in 1792.

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' Bishopric Garland or Durham Minstrel 1792 ' (or to give it its full title "The Bishopric Garland or Durham Minstrel being a choice collection of excellent songs relating to the above county Full of agreeable Variety, and pleasant Mirth. [Edited by the late Joseph Ritson, Esq.] ---Stockton. Printed by R. Christopher . MDCCLXXXIV ---Licensed and entered according to Order. --- A New Edition, corrected. Newcastle: Printed by Hall and Elliot. MDCCXCII) is a book of Geordie folk song consisting of approximately 70 pages with 20 works, published in 1792.

The original edition was published in 1784, this edition appeared in 1792 in a slightly corrected and expanded form, and a further reprint was published in 1809.

Other books in Ritson's Garland series were The Yorkshire 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 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



The front cover of the book was as thus :-

THE


BISHOPRIC GARLANDS


OR


DURHAM MINSTREL


BEING A


CHOICE COLLECTION


OF


EXCELLENT SONGS


RELATING TO THE ABOVE COUNTY


Full of agreeable Variety, and pleasant Mirth.


[EDITED BY THE LATE


JOSEPH RITSON, ESQ.]


- - - -


STOCKTON


PRINTED BY R. CHRISTOPHER.


MDCCLXXXIV


Licensed and entered according to Order


- - - -


A NEW EDITION, CORRECTED.


NEWCASTLE:


PRINTED BY HALL AND ELLIOT.


MDCCXCII

Contents



are as below :-


See also



Geordie dialect words


Joseph Ritson


Ritson's Northern Garlands 1810


Ritson's Yorkshire Garland 1809


Ritson's Northumberland Garland or Newcastle Nightingale 1809


Ritson's North-Country Chorister 1809

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