Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Coote, Charles, 1809-1880.

Description

1. 8 l. illus.; 27 cm.

Series statement

1. The Black bull chapbooks ; no. 1

Uniform title

1. Rosin the Beau (British folksong)

Subject

1. Songs, English > Australia > Texts
2. Ballads, English > Australia
3. Cowboys

Call number

1. *KP (Rams) (Black bull chapbooks. no. 1)

Note

1. "The edition was limited to 75 copies, of which this is no. [62]"
2. The dying stockman "is simply a parody of 'The tarpaulin jacket,' and ... was probably the work of an itinerant professional ballad-monger."--cf. 1. 6b.
3. Includes tune of A fine, stalwart stockman lay dying.
4. Contains text of The dying stockman (first line: A fine, stalwart stockman lay dying), Rosin the Beau (I've travelled this wide world over), The tarpaulin jacket (A tall stalwart Lancer lay dying), and a later parody, The dying digger (A stalwart young digger lay dying).

Author

1. Anderson, Hugh, ed.

Title

1. The dying stockman; a ballad, With notes by Hugh Anderson & lino cuts by Ronald G. Edwards.

Imprint

1. [Lower Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia, The Rams Skull Press, 1954]

Series

1. The Black bull chapbooks ; no. 1

Local note

1. With autograph of H. Anderson and R.G. Edwards.

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Added author

1. Coote, Charles, 1809-1880. Tarpaulin jacket.

Added title

1. Rosin the Beau (British folksong)

LCCN

1. 55039101

Research call number

1. *KP (Rams) (Black bull chapbooks. no. 1)