Strange - I posted a reply to this, but it seems to have evaporated. Glad you managed to get a copy of ECS at such a reasonable price Will. I have two copies now - one 1st edition (slightly battered with dove grey boards) and one second edition in red. Both were gifts and the second was purchased for �12 in an Oxfam shop in Kent. As you say a great collection of songs. It actually does not cover the whole of England - there are three counties missing. (Hopefully you should remember this if you were attending properly to the content of the Lucy Broadwood show you came to in Lewes in 2009 ??? LOL) And don't rely on the fact that the songs under each county heading were actually collected there - there was a certain amount of redistribution of the material to fill holes (using premises such as the fact that a song was well known in a certain area etc) - not to mention the catch all section of songs of the sea at the back where no county at all is used!!   I'm glad you mentioned Fuller Maitland - poor chap, he always seems to be relegated to non-existence when people discuss ECS, whereas he and Lucy were actually joint editors of the work. It's actually quite easily obtainable - unlike Traditional Songs and Carols which Lucy followed on with 15 years later (and which WAS totally her own work).

Re the phonograph cylinders , Lucy was an enthusiastic user of the phonograph. She was instrumental in obtaining one for Percy Grainger to use ,and followed in purchasing her own, and starting to collect with it in 1908. She regarded her collection of recordings of Gaelic songs as her life's major achievement. Some of the recordings she made do still exist and are held in the British Library (although they are the property of the EFDSS).

An example of one can be found here