And a descriptive tour of the Entertaining Exhibits at Chetham’s Library, then known as The College.

This is a small and beautifully formed chapbook describing the Tupenny Wedding of Johnny Green and Sweet Nan on Easter Monday.

This song was written in the 1830s and is a humous take on the town of Owdham, and is spelt to suggest a local dialect. Mass weddings on Easter Monday were organised by the Collegiate Church for tupence in order to regularise a union of a couple who might not be bothered or able to pay the higher fees of a usual wedding.

Decorated with pictures of contemporary folk, hand stitched in a blue wrapper and printed on rather fine paper, but otherwise very much in the tradition of the original cheap books. It was printed as a fundraiser for Chetham’s Library.