Scottish tragic ballads.
Publisher: J. Nichols
Published: 1781
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.; Scotland -- Poetry.
Genres: Texts; Early works to 1800.; Poetry.
Notes: Title vignette.
Edited by John Pinkerton, who in his "Ancient Scotish poems, never before in print ... 1786" (v.1, p.cxxviii-cxxxi) admitted the authorship of the second part of Hardyknute and several of the other poems.
Subsequently published in 2 v., with additions, under title: Select Scotish ballads, 1783.
"Dissertations on the oral tradition of poetry, and on the tragic ballad": p.[vii]-xxxvii.