The Tyneside Songster by J. W. Swanston

The Tyneside Songster (or to give it its full title – "The Tyneside Songster containing a splendid collection of Local Songs by popular Authors, in the Northumbrian Dialect Printed by J W Swanston, 67 & 69 St Andrews Street, Newcastle and may be had at all Booksellers, Newsagents, &c" is a chapbook of Geordie folk song consisting of 39 songs, crammed into its meagre 16 pages, and published in the 1880s by J. W. Swanston, a Newcastle printer and publisher.

The publication
The contents include a general collection of, either at that time or sometime earlier, well known and popular, local songs written by a collection of songwriters. A set of the original documents is retained by the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museum Service. This is the record office for the cities and districts of Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, South Tyneside and North Tyneside.

The front cover of the book was as thus :-

THE

Tyneside

SONGSTER

CONTAINING

A splendid collection of Local Songs by

popular Authors, in the Northumbrian

Dialect

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NEWCASTLE

Printed by J W SWANSTON, 67 & 69 St Andrews Street

and may be had at all Booksellers, Newsagents, &c

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One, two, or three copies of this Song Book may be had direct from the

Printer, for the published price, with an additional halfpenny for postage,

and will be sent to any address in the United Kingdom. Larger numbers

at the same rate.

On the top right, above the title, is printed the price, “One Penny”

Contents
are as below :-