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Sea songs - Early works to 1800

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    The British sailors glory; or English valour display'd.

    | Date: [1775?]
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    The Royal toast master containing many thousands of the best toasts old and new, to give brilliancy to, mirth & make the joys of the glass supremely agreeable also the seaman's bottle companion, being a selection of exquisite modern sea songs.

    | Date: [1793]
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    The new general songster, or social companion; containing the most celebrated sea songs. With a New Selection of the most approved toasts and sentiments.

    | Date: [1800?]
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    The English salours triumph. Over the French fleet where ere they meat them, to the tune of The sailers delight.

    | Date: 1710
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    The naval songster, or Jack Tar's chest of conviviality, for 1798. Containing a collection of the best songs that ever were written, Composed, Invented, OR Manufactured BY Ingenuity, Calculated To Promote Conviviality And Merriment, With Four Dozen Monstrous Good Sentiments, New, From The Idea-Pot, And AN Introduction, Comical, Serious, And Whimsical, with a full length portrait of a Jack Tar. Embellished with a plate of Jack Capering Ashore.

    | Date: [1798?]
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