110 page PDF of miscellaneous Christmas ballads and prose broadsides (with OCR-derived text.) The dataset comprises one digitised volume (110 pages) of a collection of Christmas ballads and prose broadsides chiefly printed in London by J. Pitts between 1750 - 1840. The dataset is in Portable Document Format (PDF).
The 45.9 MB .ZIP file (created using 7-Zip) contains one .PDF file. The 319 KB .ZIP file (created using 7-Zip) contains one .TXT file derived from OCR using ABBYY FineReader software (2007). The .TXT file contains plain text in UTF-8 encoding. Two Microsoft Excel workbook files in .XLSX (2010 version) and .XLS (1997 - 2003 version) format contain metadata about the digitised volume. The British Library shelfmark is '1875.d.5'. More information is available on the catalogue (physical version).
