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