English and Scottish popular ballads
By: ed. from the collection of Francis James Child by Helen Child Sargent and George Lyman Kittredge.
Contributors: Child, Francis James, 1825-1896.; Sargent, Helen (Child); Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941, ed.
Series: The Cambridge edition of the poets, ed. by Bliss Perry
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and company
Published: 1904
Place of publication: Boston and New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 729
Subjects: Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, English -- England -- Bibliography; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Bibliography; Narrative poetry, Scottish; Narrative poetry, English
Notes: Added t.p., engraved.
"A selection from the materials collected and edited by Mr. Child ... prepared in accordance with a plan which he had approved. Each of the three hundred and five ballads in his large collection (except no. 33, 279, 281, 290, and 299) is represented ... without the apparatus criticus, and with very short introductions. The notes ... necessarily brief ..."--Pref.