Lewd Songs and Low Ballads
of the Eighteenth Century:
Bawdy Songs from Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719).
by Thomas D'Urfey

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25 Songs with Music
Paperbound. 58 pp. 5-1/2 bin. x 8-1/2 in.
Foreword. Notes.
Indexed (by Title and First Line of Song).
Pub. Date: Sept.1991
Publisher: The Bartholomew Press
Condition: NEW (Unread).

A collection of some of the bawdiest drinking songs of the eighteenth century, selected from Thomas D'Urfey's infamous songbook. 25 songs, complete with original music and lyrics, including the hilarious When for Air I take my Mare and The Trooper watering his Nag, the outrageous As Oyster Nan stood by her Tub, and the incredible Gelding of the Devil by Dick the Baker of Mansfield Town. Reproduced in an easy-to-read style and illustrated with am using drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray, and others.