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Posted By: masato sakurai
26-Jan-07 - 07:15 PM
Thread Name: Songbooks: Great Ballad Books Online
Subject: RE: Great Ballad Books Online
Correction above corrected:
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (parts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10), ed. Francis
James Child.
Parts 3 & 9 are included in Folklore Press reprint editions (1956), Vols. I & V respectively.
Additions:
R. Brimley Johnson, A Book of British Ballads ([1912])
R. Brimley Johnson, Popular British Ballads : Ancient and Modern, 4 vols. (1894)
Hamilton Wright Mabie, A Book of old English Ballads ([1910])
James Henry Dixon, Ballads and songs of the peasantry of England, taken down from oral
recitation and transcribed from private manuscripts, rare broadsides and scarce publications by
James Henry Dixon; edited by Robert Bell ([1864?])
Graham R. Tomson, Border Ballads (1888)
John Ashton, Modern Street Ballads (1888)
Thomas Evans, Old Ballads; Historical and Narrative, vols. 2-4 (1777-1784)
Richard Clay (Firm) (printer), Old English Ballads : A Collection of Favourite Ballads of the
Olden Time (1864)
John Pinkerton, Scottish Tragic Ballads (1781)
John Pinkerton, Select Scotish Ballads, 2 vols. (1783)
S. C. Hall, The Book of British Ballads (1842)
Andrew Lang, A Collection of Ballads (1897)
Criticism & History:
George Clinton Densmore Odell, Simile and metaphor in the English and Scottish ballads
(1892) [This study is based on Child's earlier edition.]
Francis Barton Gummere, The Popular Ballad (1907)
M J C.Hodgart, The Ballads (1950)
Others:
Robert Chambers, Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1870)
James C. Dick, The Songs of Robert Burns (1903)