[Crawford: English Ballads]
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[1600-1800]
A collection of over 3,700 ballads (in English) of the 17th,  18th century and 19th centuries. The most significant acquisition made during the building up of this collection was the purchase in 1885 at the sale of the library of Osterley Park of three volumes of 17th-century ballads, consisting of 787 items, of which 90 were later donated to the British Museum. They are mounted on paper and arranged alphabetically by first line in boxes.
A collection of over 3,700 ballads (in English) of the 17th,  18th century and 19th centuries. The most significant acquisition made during the building up of this collection was the purchase in 1885 at the sale of the library of Osterley Park of three volumes of 17th-century ballads, consisting of 787 items, of which 90 were later donated to the British Museum. They are mounted on paper and arranged alphabetically by first line in boxes.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana, Catalogue of a Collection of English Ballads of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries Printed for the Most Part in Black Letter (Privately Printed, 1890). Shelfmark: NRR
Ballads, English
Ballads, English