The Ceremony of Hallowwn Displayed: To which is added the first of April. Compiled from the Burn's Works, by Willie Smith
Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/07/48
- Alt. number
- 3.2529
- Date
- 1825
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Smith, Willie (Editor)
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/07/48
- Alt. number
- 3.2529
- Date
- 1825
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Smith, Willie (Editor)
Description
The Ceremony of Hallowwn Displayed: To which is Added the first of April. Compiled from the Burn's Works, by Willie Smith. Who lives in Auld Reekie, 1825.
This is an example of a Broadside or Broadsheet Ballad. A broadside (also known later as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper often printed on one side, with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. Often a plagarised version of an existing works, these were sold on streets and in taverns throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th century. This version is multiple pages and is dated later into the 19th century.
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