Ballads, English -- Texts
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A Book of Old Ballads, ed. by Beverley Nichols, illust. by H. M. Brock (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)- Modern Street Ballads (1888), ed. by John Ashton (HTML with commentary at staggernation.com)
- Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, ed. by Thomas Percy (multiple formats with commentary at exclassics.com)
- Tales of Terror and Wonder (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1887), ed. by M. G. Lewis, contrib. by Henry Morley and Walter Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Merry Songs and Ballads, Prior to the Year 1800 (5 volumes; privately printed for subscribers only, 1897), ed. by John Stephen Farmer
- A Pepysian Garland: Black-Letter Broadside Ballads of the Years 1595-1639, Chiefly From the Collection of Samuel Pepys (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1922), ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins and Samuel Pepys
- The Pack of Autolycus: or, Strange and Terrible News of Ghosts, Apparitions, Monstrous Births, Showers of Wheat, Judgments of God, and Other Prodigious and Fearful Happenings As Told in Broadside Ballads of the years 1624-1693 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927), ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins (page images at HathiTrust)
- Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesle (London: Printed by R. Cotes for F. Grove, 1648) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, ed. by Robert Bell (Gutenberg text)
- Ballad Book, ed. by Katharine Lee Bates (Gutenberg text)
- A Book of Old English Ballads, contrib. by Hamilton Wright Mabie, illust. by George Wharton Edwards
- A Book of Old English Ballads (reprint; New York: Macmillan, 1910), contrib. by Hamilton Wright Mabie, illust. by George Wharton Edwards
- A Bundle of Ballads, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
- 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 (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and Boys, 1820), by Joseph Ritson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Robin Hood Garlands and Ballads, With the Tale of the Lytell Geste: A Collection of All the Poems, Songs and Ballads Relating to This Celebrated Yeoman; To Which is Prefixed His History and Character, Deduced From Documents Hitherto Unrevised (2 volumes; London: J. R. Smith and J. Lilly, 1850), ed. by John Mathew Gutch, contrib. by William Hone, Francis Douce, and Edward F. Rimbault, illust. by F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tales of Wonder (2 volumes; London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., sold by J. Bell, 1801), by M. G. Lewis
- Tales of Wonder (second edition; London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for J. Bell, 1801), ed. by M. G. Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, ed. by Stephen Knight and Thomas H. Ohlgren (HTML at metseditions.org)
- The Oxford Book of Ballads (Oxford: Clarendon, 1910), ed. by Arthur Quiller-Couch (HTML at Bartleby)
- Chanteys and Ballads: Sea-Chanteys, Tramp-Ballads and Other Ballads and Poems (New York: Brentano's, c1920), by Harry Kemp (page images at HathiTrust)
- Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and Other Humorous Verses and Doggerel Now for the First Time Brought Together in Book Form (privately printed, 1927), ed. by Arthur Mackay (HTML at horntip.com)
- Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (New York: Sturgis and Walton, 1911), ed. by John A. Lomax (PDF at unl.edu)
- Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp (first edition; New York: Macmillan, 1919), ed. by John A. Lomax (PDF at unl.edu)
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Filed under: Ballads, English- The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684, ed. by Charles Mackay (Gutenberg text)
- A Collection of Ballads, ed. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- A Garland of New Songs: Allen A-Dale; Paddy Carey; Ma Chere Amie; William Tell; Oh the Moment Was Sad; The Cottage on the Moor (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: Bess the Gawkie; Blythe Was She; Yorkshireman in London; Pray Goody (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: God Save the King; Rule, Britannia; The Jubilee; General Wolfe; The Trumpet Sounds a Victory (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: O How I Love Somebody; The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow; Of A' the Airts the Win' Can Blaw; The Banks of the Dee (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: Sweet Willy o' the Green; The Yorkshire Concert; The Yorkshire Irishman; The Woodland Maid (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: The Battle of the Nile; Tom Starboard' The Sailor's Adieu; Tom Bowling; True Courage; The Sea Boy (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: The Bay of Biscay; O, All's Well; Poor Joe the Marine; The Mid Watch; The Sea-Boy; The Sailor's Adieu (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: The Bonny Scotch Lad and His Bonnet So Blue; The Blackbird; My Sailor Dear Shall Guard my Pillow; Bundle of Truths (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: The Death of Nelson; Lochaber; The Yellow-Hair'd Laddie; Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad; The Yorkshire Concert (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: The Fairest of The Fair; Here's a Health, &c.; The Sea-Boy; Giles Scroggins' Ghost; My Only Jo' an' Dearie O; The Beautiful Maid; The Royal Love Letter (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: The Storm, by Mrs. Robinson; A Free Mason's Song; My Eye and Betty Martia (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Garland of New Songs: Tweed Side; My Nanie, O; Highland Laddie; Up in the Morning Early; Flowers of the Forest (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Golden Vanity; and The Green Bed (New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1899), contrib. by S. Baring-Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard, illust. by Pamela Colman Smith (HTML and page images at comcast.net)
- Real Sailor-Songs (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891), ed. by John Ashton
- Rhymes a la Mode, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Rakish Rhymer: or Fancy Man's Own Songster and Reciter ("Lutetia" small limited edition; 1917) (HTML and PDF page images at horntip.com)
- Songs and Ballads of the West: A Collection Made From the Mouths of the People (with piano arrangements; London: Methuen and Co., ca. 1891), by S. Baring-Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Songs of Charles Dibdin, Chronologically Arranged, With Notes, Historical, Biographical, and Critical; and The Music of the Best and Most Popular of the Melodies, with New Piano-Forte Accompaniments; To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author (2 volumes; London: How and Parsons, 1842), by Charles Dibdin, contrib. by George Hogarth
- The Songs of Charles Dibdin, Chronologically Arranged, With Notes, Historical, Biographical, and Critical; and The Music of the Best and Most Popular of the Melodies, with New Piano-Forte Accompaniments; To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author (2 volumes; London: G. H. Davidson, 1848), by Charles Dibdin, contrib. by George Hogarth
- Songs of the West: Folk Songs of Devon and Cornall, Collected From the Mouths of the People (5th edition, with musical scores included; London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by S. Baring-Gould, H. Fleetwood Sheppard, and F. W. Bussell, ed. by Cecil J. Sharp (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Old Bush Songs, ed. by A. B. Paterson
- Ballads of Valor and Victory, Being Stories in Song from the Annals of America, by Clinton Scollard and Wallace Rice (HTML at Michigan)
- The American Songbag (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1927), ed. by Carl Sandburg (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- The Abu Habba Cylinder of Nabuna'id (V Rawlinson Pl. 64) (inscription in Akkadian, notes in English; Leiden: Late E. J. Brill, 1905), by King of Babylonia Nabonidus, contrib. by Robert J. Lau and John Dyneley Prince
- Archives From Erech: Time of Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonidus (Goucher College Cuneiform Inscriptions v1; New Haven: Pub. for Goucher College by Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1923), by Raymond Philip Dougherty
- Die El-Amarna-Tafeln, Mit Einleitung und Erläuterungen (2 volumes in transliterated Akkadian and German; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1915), ed. by J. A. Knudtzon, Otto Weber, and Erich Ebeling
- Fünfzig Babylonische Rechts- und Verwaltungs-Urkunden aus der Zeit des Königs Kambyses (529-521 v. Chr.) (in German and Akkadian; Leipzig: A. Pries, 1896), by Ernst Ziemer
- Inscription Assyrienne Archaïque de S̆amšî-Rammân IV, Roi d'Assyrie (824-811 av. J.-C.) (inscription in Akkadian, translation and commentary in French; Paris: H. Welter, 1889), by King of Assyria Shamshi-Adad V, ed. by Vincent Scheil (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lettres et Contrats de l'Époque de la Première Dynastie Babylonienne (in Akkadian and Sumerian, with French notes; Paris; P. Geuthner, 1910), ed. by F. Thureau-Dangin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Records From Erech: Time of Nabonidus (555-538 B.C.) (Yale Oriental series, Babylonian texts v6; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920), ed. by Raymond Philip Dougherty
- The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon in the British Museum, by R. Campbell Thompson
- Annals of the Kings of Assyria, ed. by E. A. Wallis Budge and L. W. King (page images at Chicago)
- Assyrisch-Babylonische Mythen und Epen (with Akkadian and German on facing pages; Berlin: Reuther und Reichard, 1900), ed. by P. Jensen
- Inschriften von Nabuchodonosor, König von Babylon (604-561 v. Chr.) (inscriptions in Akkadian; commentary in German; Leipzig: E. Pfeiffer, 1889), by King of Babylonia Nebuchadnezzar II, ed. by J. N. Strassmaier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Une Relation de la Huitième Campagne de Sargon (714 av. J.-C.) (in French; Paris; P. Geuthner, 1912), ed. by F. Thureau-Dangin
- The Earliest Version of the Babylonian Deluge Story and the Temple Library of Nippur (1910), by H. V. Hilprecht (PDF at ETANA)
- La Correspondance d'Aménophis III et d'Aménophis IV: Lettres Babyloniennes Trouvées à El-Amarna (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1899), trans. by J. Halévy, contrib. by J. Perruchon (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Seven Tablets of Creation: or, The Babylonian and Assyrian Legends Concerning the Creation of the World and of Mankind, ed. by L. W. King
- The Tell Amarna Tablets (second edition; London: Pub. for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund by A.P. Watt, 1894), trans. by C. R. Conder (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistun in Persia (London: British Museum, 1907), by King of Persia Darius I (multiple formats at archive.org)
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