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1661.
Supplement of Reserved Songs From Merry Drollery 1661.
was issued privately by the editor, J. Woodfall Ebsworth, in 1876 to be inserted between pages 256-257, comprising expurgated and
omitted songs referred to, p. 243, as "The Chamber of Horrors." Ebsworth
also reprinted in the same way, but without "Supplements," Merry
Drollery Compleat (1661-91: reprint 1875), and Westminster
Drollery (1671-72), q.v.
ca.
1731.
The Merry-Thought, or The Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany.
Part 1. 3rd Edition. London. 12mo. By "Hurlo-Thrumbo."
Part 2,
Part 3 and
Part 4.
Usually known as The Bog-House Miscellany, this is the original
graffiti collection , including verse and drawings taken, as the title
states, from diamond scratchings on tavern glass windows and writings on
the walls of privies or "bog-houses."
1768.
Gentleman's Bottle Companion.
An important early collection of drinking songs with many bawdy
parodies.
1799.
Merry Muses of
Caledonia. This OCR is from the Legman type-facsimile
1964 with corrections and editions from G. Ross Roy's facsimile edition. Note that
Legman's important editorial material has been left out of the OCRed version. Just buy
Legman's if you want to know what he says.
ca. 1812.
The Festival of Love, or A Collection of Cytherean Poems. 1770. "Procured and selected by G----e Ρ----e
[i.e., Prince George]." London: M. Smith. xi, 443 pp., 12mo. (Copies:
PC. 710: 6th edition; John Patrick & Cambridge University Library
Arcana: 4th edition). This PDF version is from the 4th
edition.
ca. 1864.
Rakish Rhymer (The), or Fancy Man's Own Songster and Reciter
(1917 reprint). (Cupid's Own Library, No. 10.) No copy known. Reprinted, "Lutetia" [Paris: Charles Carrington]: Privately Printed for Members of the Sport's Club, in the Year of the World-War, 1917. (3), 163 pp., 12mo. (Copies: Brown University Library, Harris Collection;
Kisney Institute Library; Dr. Cliff Scheiner [Brooklyn, NY]) Erotic songs and parodies mostly
derived from the early English music hall era (1820-1850).
Contains an early example of "Bullocky Bill the Sailor".
1879-1880. The
Pearl: A Journal of Facetić, Voluptuous Reading. 1879-80.
"Oxford: Printed at the University Press" [London: Edited and published
by W. LAZENBY]. 3 vols., 8vo, in 18 monthly parts. Pornographic
magazine, including serial novelettes, bawdy verse, limericks, and
various obscśna. This OCRed version is from the Grove Press
issue without the Supplements or "Christmas numbers". If you have
any of these Supplements, please email me at
. Thanks!
1883-97. Broadside
Manuscript Ledger-book. This ledger-book from upstate NY near
the Erie Canal has bawdy broadsides and manuscript entries of
broadsides. This is going to be deposited at the New York
Historical Association Library.
ca. 1885.
The Regular
Bang-Up Reciter Not much traditional material here or songs in
general. Legman in his Horn Book categorizes this chapbook
as of the same character as the early English music hall songster.
This is mistaken.
1892.
Records of the Beggar's Benison This OCRed version of the 1892
Records was done using the 1980 facsimile reissue published by Harris
Publishing. Sorry I seem to have misplaced the original OCR and will not
be issuing a corrected version.
1897. FARMER, John Stephen. 1897.
Merry Songs and Ballads, prior to the year A.D. 1800.
National Ballad and Song. Privately Printed for Subscribers Only. London: Gibbings?
5 vols., sq.4to. Also see Farmer's non-bawdy
Musa Pedestris which was issued in the same
4to format & publishers binding.
1905-1907.
Bawdy Manuscript Collection from N.Y. State. 61pg. typescript. Gives an important early
view of doggerel verse, songs and humor.
1907-16. Bawdy Ledger/Diary.
A manuscript diary ledger book with doggerel verse including John
Harroldson.
1917-32.
Gordon "Inferno" Collection. The 'Inferno' collection consists of original correspondence and typescript
copies of letters (~200 pages) that either Gordon or someone else separated
out -- because of their bawdy and scatological subject matter -- from the
materials he received and compiled as first head of the folklife
department at the Library of Congress. Prefaced to the 'Inferno' collection is a 14 page index
which lists informant, date, location and title of the texts.
1925.
Facetia Americana The booklet has "1601" by Twain and Eugene Field's "The
French Crisis".
1925-26. The
Hurburt Canfield Collection. An important early and extensive
manuscript collection of bawdy songs and verse. This contains
letters from Robert W. Gordon future head of the Library of Congress
Folksong Archive. This is comparable if not larger than Gordon's
Inferno Collection above.
1927.
Anecdota Americana: Being, explicitly, an anthology of tales in the
vernacular. 1927-28. Elucidatory Preface by J. Mortimer Hall [pseud.].
Anecdotes collected and taken down by Mr. William Passemon ["Mr., Will
You Pass 'em On?", pseud.: Joseph Fliesler]. "Boston: For the
Association for the Asphyxiation of Hypocrites" [New York: Printed by
Guy D'Isčre (Gabors) for David Moss, Gotham Book Mart]. xxv, 202 pp.,
8vo.
The text opens with large
phallophoric letter A. Mostly jokes, with scattered verse. Two
piratical reprints: [1928? New York: Samuel Roth] with small letter A at
head of text and an extra poem added on last page; and a further piracy
of this [c. 1932 New York: Millers?] with broad page margins at inner
edge.
My online text was derived from the 1st
edition and preserves the
phallophoric letter A. I have also added
the extra poem and a view of the
redesigned first page of jokes from the first pirated edition by
Samuel Roth.
1927. Immortalia.
Various editions. The text was OCRed from the 1st pirated "Lovian
Book" edition and then corrected by reference to 1st edition.
1928.
The
Book of a Thousand Laughs. By "O. U. Schweinickle" [pseud.
Wheeling, W. Va.]. Obscśna and verse, some in Pennsylvania-Dutch, including "Frau Wirtin"
stanzas.
ca.
1928.
A
Collection of Sea Songs and Ditties from the Stores of Dave E. Jones
Legman (1990) says: "The editing of this collection of bawdy sea songs has
been attributed to Frank Shay. "
1932-72.
Kenneth Larson Collection. An important collection of a bawdy song
collection started in 1932 with various redactions. The final one
deposited at the Library of Congress Folksong Archive in 1972. James
Kenneth Larson died a childless widower in 1995(?).
1934.
Anecdota
Americana: An Anthology of Tales in the Vernacular. Edited
without expurgation by J. Mortimer Hall [pseud.] Second
Series: 500 more. With 37 illustrations. "Boston: Humphrey Adams"
[New York: Vincent Smith]. 224 pp., 8vo. Not compiled by Joseph Fliesler,
editor of the First Series. Reprint as: The Unexpurgated Anecdota
Americana. 1968, North Hollywood, Calif.: Brandon House. 208 pp.,
16mo, offset, but omitting the erotic illustrations, in the rough style
of Alexander King. Bibliographic note: My text is derived
from the first edition. I have retained the erotic illustrations.
ca. 1934. The
"Wrecks": An Anthology of Ribald Verse'. Collected at Reno. Privately Printed for Subscribers Only. [Reno, Nevada]. (3), 192 pp., 4to, bound in
red plush, black plush or blue (cloth?). (Copies: University of Nevada, Reno; G. Legman.(black plush),
John Patrick (red plush)). Largely derived from Immortalia.
ca. 1943.
Unexpurgated.
This underground published booklet contains unexpurgated limericks,
doggerel and songs. Of note this is the first time the song
I Wish I Was A Fascinating Bitch
is published.
ca. 1943.
- Collection of
WWII ephemera.
- Second collection of
WWII ephemera.
1947. Henderson, Hamish.
Ballads of World War
II. Collected by Seamus Mór Maceanruig (Hamish Henderson).
Issued by The Lili Marleen Club of Glasgow, to Members Only. The first
unexpurgated collection of soldiers' songs, including Henderson's
additions to
King Faruk.mp3
(650KB)
which became a favorite of the British troops in North Africa.
March 1945.
Songs of the
Century. This mimeographed song book is by the 100th
Bomber Group and was issued in March 1945. I have typed it out
because the mimeograph did not allow for OCR. Of note are the
various WWII and Air Force songs along with early examples of "I Wish I
Was a Fascinating Lady".
1945(?).
Apples of Eden. An important early mimeographed(?) collection of doggerel verse and
other items.
1945-47.
6pg
Typescript letters. This 6pg typescript was found among
letters to home from someone serving in the Navy. Some of these letters
were typed on Naval letterhead in San Francisco.
1948. [MORSE, A. Reynolds].
Folk Poems and Ballads: An
Anthology . . . A Collection of rare Verses and amusing Folk Songs
compiled from scarce and suppressed Books as well as from verbal
Sources, which modern Prudery, false Social Customs and Intolerance have
separated from the public and historical Record. With Commentary, Notes,
and Sources. "Mexico City: The Cruciform Press, 1945" [Cleveland,
Ohio: A. R. Morse], vi, 128 pp., 8vo. Texts are mostly derived from
Immortalia
but some are also conflated and rewritten in part by the editor.
Companion-volume: The Limerick: A Facet of Our Culture, "1944"
[1948]. Both volumes were suppressed on publication by police action,
and are uncommon.
ca. 1949.
Bedroom
Party Literature. c.
1947. Privately Printed. Limited Edition. United States. 70 pp., 8vo.
Erotic miscellany in prose and verse; pp. 53-60 blank, for pasting-in
additions, followed by "How to Love, or The Art of Intercourse, " signed
"Douglas MacDougall, M.D."
ca. 1962.
Dirty
Jokes. Erotica Biblion Society of London and New York. Undated
32pg unpaginated stapled wraps booklet with dirty jokes, limericks and
songs.
ca.1962(?).
Shitty Songs of Sigma Chi. This plastic spiral bound songbook may have been
issued in Northern California because it mentions Westwood High which is
located there. If you have more information about this songbook,
please email me at
.
Thanks Guy Logdson for sending me a copy of Shitty Songs of Sigma Chi.
ca.1972.
The National Engineering Book of Song and Verse. (PDF
Version 1MB). No author, undated, no publisher, no place of publication. Printed
stapled wraps. 80pgs with only 64pgs of songs & doggerel. This was received from a civil engineer who said that
it was probably given to him at the University of Montreal so that he could
participate in the "smokers" that where happening on campus in
the late '60's & early '70's.
1976.
Father
Rugby Reveals...[RUGGER HUGGER presents...]. This is an
important early American rugby songbook. Quite rare.
