The Tyneside Songster by J. W. Swanston

The Tyneside Songster
AuthorJ. W. Swanston
LanguageEnglish (Geordie dialect)
Genrechapbook
PublisherJ. W. Swanston
Publication date
possibly early to mid-1880s
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages16 pages – 39 songs

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.