Early ballads illustrative of history, traditions, and customs
Subtitle: also, Ballads and songs of the peasantry of England, taken down from oral recitation and transcribed from private manuscripts, rare broadsides, and scarce publications.
By: Ed. by Robert Bell.
Contributors: Dixon, James Henry, 1803-1876.
Series: Bohn's standard library; Bohn's standard library
Publisher: G. Bell & sons
Published: 1885
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
Subjects: Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Oral tradition -- England; Broadsides -- England
Notes: His "Early ballads, illustative of history, traditions and customs ... 1856" and "Ancient poems, ballads and songs of the peasantry of England ... 1857," in one volume. The second part is practically a new edition of J. H. Dixon's "Ancient poems, ballads and songs," pub. for the Percy society, 1846.