The hell-broth and other songs
By: by Joseph Skipsey
Publisher: The author
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Blyth, Eng.?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Notes: Title from cover.

The Houghton Library copy consists of a blank memorandum book into which 27 poems have been pasted onto 29 leaves, with a printed label pasted onto the front cover and a sheet of printed extracts from newspaper reviews pasted inside the front cover. Inside each cover is a printed label: Watson Robinson. Bookseller, printer, & bookbinder. Sussex St. Blyth.

"For private circulation."

The poems are set in various fonts and printed on one side only, implying separate composition and printing, e.g., as proof sheets or as broadsides and slip ballads.
Table of contents: title: Prelude; title: The hell-broth; title: The reign of gold; title: Hey Robin; title: Polly and Harry; title: Annie Lee; title: The choice; title: My merry bird; title: The dance; title: The appeal; title: A lullaby; title: The ruin; title: The lilly and the rose; title: An oracle; title: A word of good cheer; title: The wilted leaf; title: An invitation; title: The three maidens; title: The violet and the rose; title: The fair; title: Sympathy; title: Dolly Dare; title: The goblet; title: The enchanted cup; title: Jemmie McKye; title: The crinoline; title: The fairies' adieu.