John Ross was a printer and publisher in 19th century
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. His business was in the Royal Arcade, Newcastle.
He published several music
chapbooks
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In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Produced cheaply, chapbooks were commonly small, paper-covered booklet ...
including ''
The Songs of the Tyne'',
the first collection of that name, and consisting of 10 small volumes.
See also
Geordie dialect words
Geordie () is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England, and the dialect used by its inhabitants, also known in linguistics as Tyneside English or Newcastle English. There are different definitions of what constitute ...
References
Music in Newcastle upon Tyne
Northumbrian folklore
Geordie songwriters
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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