‘The most serviceable edition of the ballads yet published in England.’ —Manchester Guardian.
The “First Series” is available from Project Gutenberg as [e-text 20469]. All references to “First Series” are to this volume. The “Third Series” (not listed here) is “Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance”, [e-text 20624]. The Fourth Series, “Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws”, is in preparation.
[ POPULAR BALLADS]
OF THE OLDEN TIME
SELECTED AND EDITED
BY FRANK SIDGWICK
Second Series. Ballads of
Mystery and Miracle and
Fyttes of Mirth
‘Gar print me ballants weel, she said,
Gar print me ballants many.’
A. H. BULLEN
47 Great Russell Street
London. MCMIV
‘What man of taste and feeling can endure rifacimenti, harmonies, abridgments, expurgated editions?’ —Macaulay.