The Naval songster, or Jack Tar's chest of conviviality : containing a collection of celebrated sea-songs calculated to inspire "the honest heart of a tar" with mirth and conviviality and to send "dull care" to Davy Jones's locker ; many of which are intended to commemorate the glorious naval victories of last year : a few sentimental toasts and toasted sentiments ; with an address from an old seaman (now a Greenwich pensioner) to all the Jack Tars in His Majesty's fleet describing all the naval victories, & c since the commencement of the present war.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for J. Fairburn,
[179-?]
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| Item Description: | Without music; some tunes indicated by title or subtitle. Woodcut frontispiece plates. Includes index. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. The Cushing Library/Rare Books/Morrison Collection copy is bound with: The Musical miscellany : a select collection of the most approved Scots, English, and Irish songs, set to music. [Perth : Printed by J. Brown, 1786] -- Nunnery amusements ; or, the amorous adventures of a monk and nun. [London? : Printed for R. Borewell, 1786] -- Monstrous good songs, sentiments & toasts ; or, a cure for the heart-ache. [London : Printed for R. Rusted, ... and J. Parsons, 1798]. |
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| Physical Description: | volumes : illustrations ; 18 cm |