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• Songs of the West (Methuen, 1905), by S. Baring-Gould and Cecil J. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Fifty years of English song. Selections from the poets of the reign of Victoria. (A. D. F. Randolph & co., 1888), by Henry Fitz Randolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handful of pleasant delights (1584) (Harvard university press, 1924), by Clement Robinson and Hyder Edward Rollins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan songs "in honour of love and beautie," (Little, Brown & co., 1894), by Edmund H. Garrett and Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reliques of ancient English poetry; consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets; together with some few of later date. (H. Washbourne, 1844), by Thomas Percy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elizabethan jig and related song drama (The University of Chicago press, 1929), by Charles Read Baskervill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of the Catnach press, at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials. London. (C. Hindley <the younger>, 1887), by Charles Hindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan songs "in honour of love & beautie"... (Little, Brown & co., 1893), by Edmund H. Garrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry ... (J. M. Dent & co.;, 1906), by Thomas Percy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry nach der ersten ausgabe von 1765 mit den varianten der späteren originalausgaben hrsg. und mit einleitung und registern versehen (E. Felber, 1893), by Thomas Percy and Arnold Schröer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden vanity, and The green bed; words and music of two old English ballads (Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899), by Pamela Colman Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the West; folk songs of Devon & Cornwall collected from the mouths of the people (Methuen & Co., ltd., 1928), by S. Baring-Gould, Cecil J. Sharp, F. W. Bussell, and H. Fleetwood Sheppard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book of old ballads (Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1880), by Alice Havers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden vanity, and The green bed; words and music of two old English ballads, with pictures (E. Mathews, 1903), by H. Fleetwood Sheppard, S. Baring-Gould, and Pamela Colman Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Beauties of ancient poetry, intended as a companion to the Beauties of English poetry. (Printed for E. Newbery and J. Wallis, 1794) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan songs "in honour of love and beautie," (Little, Brown & co., 1895), by Edmund H. Garrett and Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient poems, ballads, and songs of the peasantry of England : taken down from oral recitation, and transcribed from private manuscripts, rare broadsides, and scarce publications (Printed for the Percy Society by T. Richards, 1846), by James Henry Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient popular poetry : from authentic manuscripts and old printed copies (Priv. print., 1884), by Joseph Riston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Queen's garland; being chosen lyrics of the reign of Q. Elizabeth. (Printed for R. H. Russell, 1902), by Fitz Roy Carrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ballad literature and popular music of the olden time : a history of the ancient songs, ballads, and of the dance tunes of England, with numerous anecdotes and entire ballads : also a short account of the minstrels (Chappell and Co., 1855), by W. Chappell and G. A. Macfarren (page images at HathiTrust)
• English minstrelsie : a national monument of English song (Jack, 1895), by S. Baring-Gould (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sad was the morn, when William left his dear (Published and Sold by G. Graupner, at his Music Store, No. 6 Franklin Street, 1811), by William Mineard Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of British song for home and school. (Murray, 1909), by Cecil J. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Popular music of the olden time : a collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes, illustrative of the national music of England : with short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : also a short account of the minstrels (Chappell & Co., 1855), by W. Chappell and G. A. Macfarren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Country parson's folly, or, The young Dutch woman of Westminster come off with flying colours to the tune of Folly, desperate folly, &c. (London : Printed for J. Bissel ..., [between 1688 and 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Frenchmens vvonder, or, The battle of the birds ... to the tune of, In summer time. ([S.l.] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke, [between 1674-1679]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advice to young gentlemen, or, An answer to The ladies of London to the tune of, The ladies of London. (London : Printed for J. Back ..., [1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Choice collection of new songs and ballads the words made to several pleasant tunes / by Mr. D'urfey ; with tunes transpos'd for the flute. (London : Printed by William Pearson ... for Henry Playford and sold by him at his shop ..., 1699), by Thomas D'Urfey and Henry Playford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The wonder of wonders, or, The strange birth in Hampshire being an exact, true and perfect relation of one A.B. living in a country parish neer the town of Rumsey in Hampshire, relating how the said person was strangely brought to bed the 18th of November last with a live toad, a terrible serpent, and a dead child having some part of its head and face and othe parts devoured by the serpent in the mothers womb ... tune of, My bleeding heart / by T.L. ([London] : Printed for J. Hose and E. Oliver and are to be sold at their shops in Holbourn and on Snow-Hill, [1675?]), by Thomas Lanfiere (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Catalogue of English and American Chap-Books and Broadside Ballads in Harvard College Library (Harvard Library Bibliographical Contributions #56; 1905), by Harvard University Library (multiple formats at archive.org)
• English and Scottish ballads (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885), by Francis James Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• English and Scottish popular ballads. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1904), by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge, and Helen Child Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the Catnach Press : at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London (C. Hindley [the younger], 1886), by Charles Hindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ballad book : a selection of the choicest British ballads. (Sever and Francis, 1864), by William Allingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• English and Scottish popular ballads (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1904), by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge, William James, and Helen Child Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the Catnach Press: at Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London, by Charles Hindley (Gutenberg ebook)
• English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I, ed. by Francis James Child (Gutenberg ebook)

• Tregeagle of Dozmary pool, and original Cornish ballads. (W. Wood, 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the West (Methuen, 1905), by S. Baring-Gould and Cecil J. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• The ballads & songs of Derbyshire. With illustrative notes, and examples of the original music, etc. (Bemrose, 1867), by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (page images at HathiTrust)

• The local historian's table book, of remarkable occurences, historical facts, traditions, legendary and descriptive ballads, &c., &c., connected with the counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham. (M. A. Richardson, 1841), by Moses Aaron Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The quatorse, or, The sorrowful lamentation of the Preston gentlemen in the press-yard, for the loss of P.W. made by the author, while he was playing at picket ; in imitation of Habby Simson. ([London : s.n., 1685?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Essex ballads and other poems. (Benham, 1907), by Charles Edwin Benham (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2014), by David Atkinson
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• Minstrelsy, music, and the dance in the English and Scottish popular ballads (Lincoln, 1921), by Lowry Charles Wimberly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "chanson d'aventure" in Middle English ... (Penn., 1913), by Helen Estabrook Sandison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The popular ballad (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
• The popular ballad (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1907), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jack of Newbury. (Mayer & Müller, 1904), by Richard Sievers and Thomas Deloney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787): A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William: Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning, by George Canning and William Wagstaffe, ed. by William K. Wimsatt (Gutenberg ebook)

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