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Thread #36732 Message #1946287
Posted By: Joe Offer
24-Jan-07 - 02:40 AM
Thread Name: Songbooks: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
Subject: RE: Basic Folk Library PermaThread
from Masato: These ballad books are online at Internet Archive: Text Archive.
English And Scottish Popular Ballads, ed. George Lyman Kittredge (abridged one-volume ed.)
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (parts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9), ed. Francis James Child.
The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, Volumes I & V, ed. Francis James Child (Folklore Press reprint editions, 1956)
English and Scottish Ballads, 8 vols., ed. Francis James Child (1860 edition)
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 3 vols. (MDCCXCIV and MDCCCXXXIX editions) - Thomas Percy
Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript : Ballads and Romances, 3 vols. (1867-68) ["Loose and Humorous Songs" is not available]
Popular Ballads and Songs, 2 vols. - Robert Jamieson
Minstrelsy : Ancient and Modern (1827) - William Motherwell
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, by Sir Walter Scott, 4 vols., edited by T.F. Henderson (1902)