[_This list does not pretend to be exhaustive, but to give the more
important collections, especially those containing trustworthy
Introductions._]
1723-25. A Collection of Old Ballads, corrected from the best and most
ancient copies extant. 3 vols. London.
1724. _Allan Ramsay._ The Ever-Green. 2 vols. Edinburgh.
1724-27. _Allan Ramsay._ The Tea-Table Miscellany. First eight editions
in 3 vols., Edinburgh, Dublin, and London. Ninth and subsequent editions
in four volumes, or four volumes in one, London.
1765. _Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore._ Reliques of Ancient English
Poetry. 3 vols. London.
1769. _David Herd._ The Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, Heroic Ballads,
etc. Edinburgh. The second edition, 1776, under a slightly different
title. 2 vols. Edinburgh.
1781. _John Pinkerton._ Scottish Tragic Ballads. London.
1787-1803. _James Johnson._ The Scots Musical Museum. 6 vols. Edinburgh.
1790. _Joseph Ritson._ Ancient Songs, etc. London. (Printed 1787, dated
1790, and published 1792.)
1791. _Joseph Ritson._ Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry. London.
1794. _Joseph Ritson._ Scotish Song. 2 vols. London.
1795. " " Robin Hood. 2 vols. London.
1802-3. _Walter Scott._ Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. 3 vols. Kelso
and Edinburgh.
1806. _Robert Jamieson._ Popular Ballads and Songs from Tradition,
Manuscripts, and Scarce Editions. 2 vols. Edinburgh.
1808. _John Finlay._ Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads, chiefly
ancient. 2 vols. Edinburgh.
1822. _Alexander Laing._ Scarce Ancient Ballads. Aberdeen.
1823. _Alexander Laing._ The Thistle of Scotland. Aberdeen.
1823. _Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe._ A Ballad Book. Edinburgh.
1824. _James Maidment._ A North Countrie Garland. Edinburgh.
1826. _Robert Chambers._ The Popular Rhymes of Scotland. Edinburgh.
1827. _George Kinloch._ Ancient Scottish Ballads. London and Edinburgh.
1827. _William Motherwell._ Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern. Glasgow.
1828. _Peter Buchan._ Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of
Scotland. 2 vols. Edinburgh.
1834. The Universal Songster. 3 vols. London.
1845. _Alexander Whitelaw._ The Book of Scottish Ballads. Glasgow,
Edinburgh, and London.
1846. _James Henry Dixon._ Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the
Peasantry of England. London.
1847. _John Matthew Gutch._ A Lytyll Geste of Robin Hode. 2 vols.
London.
1855-59. _William Chappell._ Popular Music of the Olden Time. 2 vols.
London.
1857. _Robert Bell._ Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry
of England. London.
1857-59. _Francis James Child._ English and Scottish Ballads. 8 vols.
2nd edition, 1864.
1864. _William Allingham._ The Ballad Book. London.
1867-68. _J. W. Hales_ and _F. J. Furnivall_. Bishop Percy's Folio
Manuscript. 4 vols. London.
1882-98. _Francis James Child._ The English and Scottish Popular
Ballads. 5 vols. Boston, New York, and London.
1895. _Andrew Lang._ Border Ballads. London: Lawrence and Bullen.
1897. _Andrew Lang._ A Collection of Ballads. London: Chapman and Hall's
'Diamond Library.'
1897. _Francis B. Gummere._ Old English Ballads. Boston, U.S.A. Athenaeum
Press Series.
1902. _T. F. Henderson._ Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, by Sir
Walter Scott. New edition. 3 vols. London.