I think we're on the home stretch with Loomis House - it's been ten years since the first volume was published, and I don't know if I would have bought Volume 1 if I knew it would take ten years to get Volume 5. But I don't think they'd announce a July publication date for the fifth volume if the book weren't almost completely finished. Volume 5 will include Ballads 266-305, but it won't include the appendix included in the Dover edition because the appendix has been incorporated with the songs in the appropriate volumes. So, I wonder if Volume 5 will be really skinny, or if it will have some pleasant surprises.

-Joe-