Child's, The English And Scottish Ballads

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BALLADS AND SONGS.                  Xvii
pieces before unpublished." Collected by John Pinkerton. 3 vols. London, 1792.
* " The Melodies of Scotland, &c. The Poetry chiefly by Burns. The whole collected by George Thomson." Lond. & Edin. 6 vols. 1793-1841. See p. xx., last title but one.
" The Northumberland Garland." Edited by Ritson. New­castle, 1793. [London, 1809.] See " Northern Garlands," p. xix.
" Scotish Song. In two volumes." Joseph Kit-son. London, 1794.
" Robin Hood : A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs and Ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English Outlaw. To which are prefixed Historical Anecdotes of his Life. By Joseph Ritson, Esq." 2 vols. 1795. [Second Edition, London, 1832.]
" A Collection of English Songs, with an Appendix of Orig­inal Pieces." London, 1796. Lord Hailes.
* " An Introduction to the History of Poetry in Scotland, &c, by Alexander Campbell, to which are subjoined Songs of the Lowlands of Scotland, carefully compared with the original editions." Edinburgh, 1798. 4to,
" Tales of Wonder; Written and collected by M. G. Lewis, Esq., M. P." 2 vols. London, 1800. [New-York, 1801.]
" Scottish Poems of the Sixteenth Century." Ed. by J. G. Dalzell. Edinburgh, 1801. 2 vols. (Contains "Ane Com­pendious Booke of Godly and Spirituall Songs, collectit out of sundrie Partes of the Scripture, with sundrie of other Ballates, changed out of Prophaine Sanges for avoyd-ing of Sinne and Harlotrie, with Augmentatioun of sundrie Gude and Godly Ballates, not contained in the first Edition. VOL. I.                         6