Ballads of Romance and Chivalry / Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series

by Frank Sidgwick

A.—The Literary History of Ballads

	The Introductions, etc., to the Collections of Ballads in List B.
1861.	David Irving. History of Scottish Poetry.
1871.	Thomas Warton. History of English Poetry, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt. 4 vols.
1875.	Andrew Lang. Article in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th edition), vol. iii.
1876.	Stopford Brooke. English Literature. New edition, enlarged, 1897.
1883.	W. W. Newell. Games and Songs of American Children. New York.
1887.	Andrew Lang. Myth, Ritual, and Religion. 2 vols.
1893.	John Veitch. History and Poetry of the Scottish Border. 2 vols.
1893.	F. J. Child. Article ‘Ballads’ in Johnson’s Cyclopædia, vol. i. pp. 464‑6.
1895‑97.	W. J. Courthope. A History of English Poetry. Vols. i. and ii.
1897.	G. Gregory Smith. The Transition Period: being vol. iv. of Periods of English Literature, ed. G. Saintsbury.
1898.	Andrew Lang in Quarterly Review for July.
1901.	F. B. Gummere. The Beginnings of Poetry.
1903.	E. K. Chambers. The Mediæval Stage. 2 vols.
1903.	Andrew Lang in Folk-Lore for June.
1903.	J. H. Millar. A Literary History of Scotland.

B.—Collections of Ballads

[This list does not pretend to be exhaustive, but to give the moreimportant collections, especially those containing trustworthyIntroductions.]
1723‑25.	A Collection of Old Ballads, corrected from the best and mostancient copies extant. 3 vols. London.
1724.	Allan Ramsay. The Ever-Green. 2 vols.Edinburgh.
1724‑27.	Allan Ramsay. The Tea-Table Miscellany. First eighteditions in 3 vols., Edinburgh, Dublin, and London. Ninth and subsequenteditions in four volumes, or four volumes in one, London.
1765.	Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore. Reliques of AncientEnglish Poetry. 3 vols. London.
1769.	David Herd. The Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, HeroicBallads, etc. Edinburgh. The second edition, 1776, under a slightlydifferent 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.ScotishSong. 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 andEdinburgh.
1827.	William Motherwell. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern.Glasgow.
1828.	Peter Buchan. Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North ofScotland. 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 ofthe 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 thePeasantry 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. BishopPercy’s Folio Manuscript. 4 vols. London.
1882-98.	Francis James Child. The English and Scottish PopularBallads. 5 vols. Boston, New York, and London.
1895.	Andrew Lang. Border Ballads. London: Lawrence andBullen.
1897.	Andrew Lang. A Collection of Ballads. London: Chapman andHall’s ‘Diamond Library.’
1897.	Francis B. Gummere. Old English Ballads. Boston, U.S.A.Athenæum Press Series.
1902.	T. F. Henderson. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, by SirWalter Scott. New edition. 3 vols. London.

[ NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS]

The illustrations on pp. [28], [75], and [118] are taken from Royal MS. 10. E. iv. (of the fourteenth century) in the British Museum, where they occur on folios 34 verso, 215 recto, and 254 recto respectively. The designs in the original form a decorated margin at the foot of each page, and are outlined in ink and roughly tinted in three or four colours. Much use is made of them in the illustrations to J. J. Jusserand’s English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, where M. Jusserand rightly points out that this MS. ‘has perhaps never been so thoroughly studied as it deserves.’

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