William Blyth Gerish (1864–1921) was an English antiquarian, biographer and folklorist from Hertfordshire. (From Wikipedia)
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Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth), ed.: The Hartfordshire Wonder: or, Strange News from Ware (originally published 1669; reprinted with introductory note as Hertfordshire Folk Lore #5, 1909), by M. J. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): The "Maid of the Mill": A Story of Baldock (Hertfordshire Folk Lore #10; 1912) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth), ed.: The Mowing Devil: or, Strange News Out of Hartfordshire, 1678; With an Introductory Setting Forth Other Examples of Judgments on Impiety and False Swearing (Hertfordshire Folk Lore #14; 1913) (page images at HathiTrust (with other titles in this series); US access only)
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Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): The children's example. (Bishop's Stortford, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): The Gipsy journal and British tourist. A magazine for pedestrians & cyclists, ramblers' clubs, holiday-makers, and advocate for protection of birds & animals from cruelty. no. 1-24; Sept. 1893-July 1896. (R.E. Taylor & son, 1893), also by Walker Miles, A.G. Munro, and Edith Carrington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): A handlist to the surnames represented by inscriptions in the hundred of Edwins tree in the county of Hertfordshire 1907. (Bishop's Stortford, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): A handlist to the surnames represented by inscriptions in the hundred of Edwinstree, in the county of Hertfordshire, recorded in 1907. (Bishop's Stortford, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): A handlist to the surnames represented by inscriptions in the hundred of Odsey in the county of Hertford, recorded in 1908. (Bishop's Stortford, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): The Hartfordshire wonder; or Strange news from Ware. Being an exact and true relation of one Jane Stretton, the daughter of Thomas Stretton of Ware in the country of Herts, who hath been visited in a strange kind of manner by extraordinary and unusual fits, her abstaining from sustenance for the space of 9 months, being haunted by imps or devils in the form of several creatures here described, the parties adjudged of all by whom she was thus tormented and the occasion thereof ... (Bishops̓ Stortford, 1908), also by M. J. and M. J*** (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): Hertfordshire folklore. (Bishop's Stortford:, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): Hertfordshire folklore (Bishop's Stortford, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): A Hertfordshire miracle. (Bishop's Strotford, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): A Hertfordshire St. George, or, The story of O Piers Shonks and the Pelham dragon (s.n., 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): John Kellerman, the "last of the alchemists." ([Hertford], 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): John Norden, 1548-1626.(?); a biography with a portrait, facsimile of title-page and map from Norden's Description of Hertfordshire (G.Price & son, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): The "maid of the mill," a story of Baldock (Bishop's Stortford, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): The mowing devil, or Strange news out of Hartfordshire, 1678, with an introductory setting forth other examples of judgments on impiety and false swearing (Bishop's Stortford, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): The severall practices of Johane Harrison and her daughter, condemned and executed at Hartford for witchcraft, the 4th August last, 1606 ([Bishop's Stortford?], 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): A short rehearsal of the sad condition of three of the children of John Baldwin of Sarret in the county of Hertford, and also the manner of their deliverance, 1717. (Bishops' Stortford, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gerish, W. B. (William Blyth): The "wicked Lady Ferrers"; a legend of Markyate Cell in Flamstead; an attempt to solve the mystery of "the lady highwayman," (Bishop's Stortford, 1911), also by Frank E. Smedley (page images at HathiTrust)
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