PLEASE. There was no such person as "Cecil Sharpe".

You meant Cecil Sharp, the English folk song collector.

You did not mean Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, the Scottish folk song collector.

It's well documented how both of them dealt with the limits on what could be published in their own time - in both cases, responsibly and creditably. Here is something from an early 18th century manuscript that Sharpe published, but not in a way that would attract more attention than he could deal with:

The Metamorphosis (1707-8)