English and Scottish ballads
By: edited by Francis James Child ...
Contributors: Child, Francis James, 1825-1896, ed.
Series: [British poets. Riverside ed.]
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Published: 1885
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts; Ballads, English -- England -- Bibliography; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Bibliography; Scotland -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Notes: "List of the principal collections of English and Scottish ballads and songs": v. 1, p. [xvii]-xxxv.
"... Titles of the principal collections of ballad-poetry in other languages, referred to in these volumes": v. 1, p. xxxvi-xxxvii.
Fore-runner of the editor's much more extensive work "The English and Scottish popular ballads," issued in ten parts, 1882-1898.