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• Folk literature, English -- England -- Lancashire

• Traditions of Lancashire, second series (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831), by John Roby (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Legend Land, Vol. 4: Being a Further Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Nearer Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway, by G. Basil Barham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Legend Land, Vol. 3: Being a Further Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway, by G. Basil Barham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Legend Land, Vol. 2: Being a Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway, by G. Basil Barham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Legend Land, Vol. 1: Being a Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway, by G. Basil Barham (Gutenberg ebook)

• A catalogue of chap-books, garlands, and popular histories (For private circulation, 1849), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notices of fugitive tracts, and chap-books printed at Aldermary churchyard, Bow churchyard, etc. (Printed for the Percy Society, by Richards, 1849), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)

• Make We Merry More and Less: An Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Douglas Gray and Jane Bliss (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Specimens of the popular poetry of Persia, as found in the adventures and improvisations of Kurroglou, the bandit-minstrel of northern Persia and in the songs of the people inhabiting the shores of the Caspian Sea (Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, and sold by W.H. Allen, 1842), by Alexander Chodźko and Benno Loewy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sketches of the literary history of Barnstaple : being the substance of a series of papers read at the Literary institution, Barnstaple (Printed and sold by E. J. Arnold, 1866), by J. R. Chanter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Birmingham poetry (1923-4.) (Merton Press, 1924), by S. Fowler Wright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ballads & legends of Cheshire (Longmans & co., 1867), by Egerton Leigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remains, historical and literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester. (Chetham Society., 1844), by Chetham Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads & legends of Cheshire. (Longmans & co., 1867), by Egerton Leigh (page images at HathiTrust)

• The songs and ballads of Cumberland, to which are added dialect and other poems; with biographical sketches, notes, and glossary. (G. Routledge, 1866), by Sidney Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads in the Cumberland dialect (Printed for H.K. Snowden; sold by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1828), by R. Anderson and Thomas Sanderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works; to which is prefixed the life of the author, written by himself; an essay on the character, manners, and customs of the peasantry of Cumberland; and observations on the style and genius of the author (B. Scott, 1820), by R. Anderson and Thomas Sanderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The songs and ballads of Cumberland and the lake country : with biographical sketches, notes, and glossary, first-[third] series (John Russell Smith, 1874), by Sidney Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads in the Cumberland dialect. With notes descriptive of the manners and customs of the Cumberland peasantry, a glossary of local words, and a life of the author. (W. Davison, 1840), by R. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ballads in the Cumberland dialect (B. Crosby and co.; [etc., etc.], 1808), by R. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The songs and ballads of Cumberland : to which are added the best poems in the dialect ; with biographical sketches, notes, & glossary (G. Coward, 1865), by Sidney Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The ballads & songs of Derbyshire. (Bemrose and Lothian; [etc., etc.], 1867), by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Devonshire idyls (1892), by H. C. O'Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literature of Devonshire up to the year 1640; being the presidential address to the members of the Devonshire association at their meeting held at Torquay on Tuesday, July 25th, 1893. (Priv. print., 1893), by T. N. Brushfield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traditions of Lancashire (fifth edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons; Manchester: L. C. Gent, 1872), by John Roby
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
• Traditions of Lancashire (F. Warne, 1930), by John Roby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lancashire lyrics: modern songs and ballads of the county palatine. (Whittaker, 1866), by John Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads and songs of Lancashire, ancient and modern (Heywood, 1882), by John Harland and Thomas Turner Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The collected writings of Samuel Laycock. (W. E. Clegg, 1908), by Samuel Laycock and George Milner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remains, historical and literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester. (Chetham Society., 1844), by Chetham Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traditions of Lancashire. (G. Routledge, 1867), by John Roby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rays fro th' Loominary: a selection of comic Lancashire tales adapted for public reading or reciting (J. Heywood, 1884), by James Taylor Staton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traditions of Lancashire, second series (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831), by John Roby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chetham society. (Manchester : Chetham Society, 1844-, 1844), by Chetham Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Literary London (T. W. Laurie, 1906), by Elsie M. Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary landmarks of London (J.R. Osgood. McIlvaine & co., 1892), by Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• By Chelsea reach; some riverside records (Mills & Boon, limited, 1921), by Reginald Blunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literary history of the Adelphi and its neighbourhood (A. Treherne, 1907), by Austin Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literary history of the Adelphi and its neighbourhood (Duffield, 1909), by Austin Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary landmarks of London (Harper & Brothers, 1892), by Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary landmarks of London (T. Fisher Unwin, 1885), by Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary landmarks of London (Harper & brothers, 1897), by Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary landmarks of London (Harper & Brothers, 1903), by Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary London (C. Scribner's sons;, 1907), by Elsie M. Lang and G. K. Chesterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradise row; or, A broken piece of old Chelsea, being the curious and diverting annals of a famous village street newly destroyed, together with particulars of sundry noble and notable persons who in former times dwelt there; to which are added likenesses of the principal of them and of their several houses (Macmillan, 1906), by Reginald Blunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary landmarks of London (T. Fisher Unwin, 1888), by Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Norfolk anthology. A collection of poems, ballads, and rare tracts relating to the county of Norfolk. (Printed for private circulation only, 1852), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps and Alexander Neville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Norfolk garland: a collection of the superstitious beliefs and practices, proverbs, curious customs, ballads and songs, of the people of Norfolk, as well as anecdotes illustrative of the genius or peculiarities of Norfolk celebrities. (Jarrold and sons, 1872), by John Glyde (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Suffolk garland: or, A collection of poems, songs, tales, ballads, sonnets, and elegies, legendary and romantic, historical and descriptive, relative to that county (J. Raw, 1818), by James Ford (page images at HathiTrust)

• The book of Sussex verse (Combridges, 1920), by Charles F. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• The charm of the West Country : an anthology (Arrowsmith ;, 1913), by Thomas Burke (page images at HathiTrust)

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