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The songs in Jack the gyant queller An antique history. By Henry Brooke, Esq;.

Title: The songs in Jack the gyant queller [electronic resource] : An antique history. By Henry Brooke, Esq;.
Author: Brooke, Henry, 1703?-1783.
Publication: Dublin : printed by George Faulkner, in Essex-Street, MDCCXLIX. [1749]

Additional Authors

Gale (Firm)

Description

36p.; 8⁰.

Uniform Title

Alternative Title

Jack the giant queller.

Subject

Ballad operas > Librettos > Excerpts

Note

Containing 46 songs.
Performed in Dublin in 1749 as 'Jack the giant queller'.
An enlarged version of the full text, with 51 songs, was published in Brooke's collected works in London in 1778 as 'Little John and the giants', and a shorter version with 34 songs in his poetical works in Dublin in 1792 as 'Jack the giant queller'.
Price from imprint: price a British Six Pence.
Reproduction of original from British Library.

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Reproduction (note)

OCLC

Author

Brooke, Henry, 1703?-1783.

Title

The songs in Jack the gyant queller [electronic resource] : An antique history. By Henry Brooke, Esq;.

Imprint

Dublin : printed by George Faulkner, in Essex-Street, MDCCXLIX. [1749]

Edition

The second edition.

Series

Eighteenth century collections online.

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, T56240.

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Place of Publication

Ireland Dublin.

Added Author

Gale (Firm)