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English Ballads

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Songs of the late Charles Dibdin

Charles Dibdin

1850

American balladry from British broadsides

G. Malcolm Laws

1957

A collection of seventy-nine black-letter ballads and broadsides

Joseph Lilly

1867

The rose & the briar

Sean Wilentz

2005

Early Scottish melodies

John Glen

1900

Earth, air, fire, water

Robin Skelton, Margaret Blackwood

1990

Song of Robin Hood

Anne Burnett Malcolmson, Virginia Lee Burton, Grace Castagnetta

2000

The Scottish ballads

Robert Chambers

1829

Minstrelsy of the Scottish border

Sir Walter Scott

1802

Songs and ballads

Thomas Wright

1860

Scottish songs, ballads and poems

Hew Ainslie

1855

The Bab ballads

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert

1869

English and Scottish ballads

Francis James Child

1857

Robin Hood

James Clarke Holt

1989

Reliques of ancient English poetry

Thomas Percy

1767

The maiden on the moor

Marilyn Singer

1995

Manual of Modern Scots

William Grant, James Main Dixon

1921

Ancient songs and ballads, from the reign of King Henry the Second to the revolution

Ritson, Joseph

1829

The quest of the ballad

W. Roy Mackenzie

1919

Minerals of California

Arthur Starr Eakle

1923

Early English prose romances

William John Thoms

1858

The singing tradition of Child's popular ballads

Bertrand Harris Bronson

1976

Ballad book

Katharine Lee Bates

1890

The English "Loathly Lady" tales

Susanna Greer Fein

2007

Ballads and lyrics of love

Frank Sidgwick

1908

Lyrics from the dramatists of the Elizabethan age

Arthur Henry Bullen

1889

Ballads

William Makepeace Thackeray

1855

Waltzing Matilda

Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson

1972

Chaucer songs

Nigel E. Wilkins

1980

Victorian songs

Edmund Henry Garrett

1895

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