The woody choristers, or, The birds harmony : In two parts : When birds could speak, & women they had neither good nor bad to say, the pretty birds then fill'd with pain, did to each other thus complain / Tune, The bird-catcher's delight ; Enter'd according to order.

Format:

• Microformat

Series:

• Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

Standardized Title:

• Birds lamentation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Birds--Poetry--Early works to 1800.
• Birds.
• Broadsides.
• England--London.
• Broadsides--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

• Poetry.
• Ballads -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

• 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (woodcut) ; oblong 1⁰
• 35 mm
• monochrome
• service copy
• positive

Other Title:

Second part of the birds harmony

Place of Publication:

London : printed and sold by T. Norris, at the looking-glass on London bridge. And sold by J. Walter, [between 1701 and 1714?]

Summary:

A ballad about birds complaining to each other.

Notes:

• Also published under title: "The birds lamentation"; Wing gives standardized title for other editions by other publishers as "The woody choristers".
• Date of publication suggested by cataloger from other works by same publishers.
• Verse - "Oh! says the cuckoo, loud and stout,".
• Preliminary verse under title in two columns.
• In two parts.
• Not in Wing nor Foxon.
• Wing gives title for similar editions as "Querresters".
• Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's writing and advice, c1450-1720, reel 3, Douce Ballads 2[209], creased, stained, and faded, affecting title, woodcut and text.
• Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
• Microfilm. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Publications ; Oxford, England : Bodleian Photographic Service. 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 3.

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCN69927.

OCLC:

63661915