On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, steve roud wrote:
> I would be grateful for some bibliographical assistance.
> I have two editions (containing exactly the same songs and illustrations) of the FORGET-ME-NOT-SONGSTER - can anyone please help me date them?
> 1. Published by J.S. Locke & Co. (Successors to G.W. Cottrell), 34 & 36 Cornhill, Boston.
> 2. Published by Locke & Bubier, 34 & 36 Cornhill, Boston.
>
> Has anyone done a study, or list, of all the FORGET-ME-NOT editions?
> Best wishes
> Steve Roud
>
>
Steve et al:
I compiled a short list of songsters containing "Barbara Allen" (Child
84), among them six or seven editions of _The Forget-Me-Not Songster,_
probably the most influential of all songsters in the English language.
(I listed seven, but one was a copy [in my possession] without a title
page, and it may be a copy of one of the other six editions.) In any
event, the oldest version of the songster I have seen was published by
Nafish and Cornish, New York City, ca. 1840. The next oldest was
published by Nafish and Cornish, and J. B. Petty, Philadelphia in 1842.
T.P. Coffin in H.H. Flanders _Ancient Ballads,_ Vol. II, p. 247, cites
another edition printed by J.S. Locke, of Boston, ca. 1842.
Interestingly, most editions of the work contained two versions of
"Barbara Allen."
Ed
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