Imprint Record

Ein Schön Pilger Liedlein [A Nice Little Pilgrim's Song].

  • Imprint Number: 1816.080
  • Title: Ein schon Pilgcr Liedlein. Dies Liedlein hat ein Mann gedichtet ...
  • Sequence Number: 80
  • Year: 1816
  • Place Issued: Harrisonburg
  • Issuing Press: Lawrence Wartmann
  • Author: ----
  • Notes: Text presents three song-poems in German; title supplied above is that for first song with its first line; the other two songs were: "Armer Fremdling hier auf Erden [Poor stranger here on earth]" and "Pilgrim bin auch ich auf Erden [Pilgrim I am also on earth]," with an addendum "Schönes Echo, auf die obige Reimen [Beautiful Echo, on the above rhymes]."
    Sheet evinces Wartmann's adoption of a publication form that was popular and profitable for his former employer, the Henkel Press in New Market: a broadside songster without music.

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