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Total number of records: 30

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Brotherton Collection30
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections11
Herbert Read Collection5
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2

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folk songs, english30
ballads, english17
sea songs11
songs, english5
folk music4
romanies4
folk songs, scots3
english poetry2
amusements1
ballads, scots1

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Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814)11
English Folk Dance and Song Society4
Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)3
Dibdin, Charles (1768-1833)3
Dibdin, Thomas (1771-1841)3
Maccoll, Ewan2
Percy, Thomas (1729-1811)2
Sandford, Jeremy2
Seeger, Peggy (1935-)2
Broadwood, Lucy Etheldred (1858-1929)1

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Travellers' songs from England and Scotland

MacColl, Ewan; Seeger, Peggy (1935-)

1977

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Songs and letters copied by Captain Francis Burdet.

Burdet, Francis

1706-1735

Manuscript contains from one end of the volume: (in the hand of Elizabeth Wyndham) Ten pages of childish mathematical exercises, followed by accounts of rentals due, "to me and my sister Sarah Wyndha...

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Jolly Roger: a song probably by Thomas D'Urfey.

D'urfey, Thomas

c. 1730

A comic song in 73 lines, beginning "Jolly Roger Twangdillo of Plowden Hill", published in the collection "Pills to Purge Melancholy", compiled by D'Urfey (vol. 1 of 1719 edition).

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Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry (v.1)

Percy, Thomas (1729-1811)

1906

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Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry (v.2)

Percy, Thomas (1729-1811)

1906

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English and Scottish popular ballads

Child, Francis James (1825-1896); Kittredge, George Lyman (1860-1941); Sargent, Helen Child

[1904?]

"A selection from the materials collected and edited by Mr. Child... prepared in accordance with a plan which he had approved. Each of the three hundred and five ballads in his large collection (excep...

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A partridge in a pear tree

Shahn, Ben (1898-1969)

c1949

Without music.

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The outlaws of medieval legend

Keen, Maurice (1933-2012)

1961

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Songs, naval and national : of the late Charles Dibdin

Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814); Dibdin, Thomas (1771-1841); Cruikshank, George (1792-1878); Dibdin, Charles (1768-1833)

1841

Libretto only. 'Addenda' pp.237-end, consisting of: Songs selected from the works of T. Dibdin, (pp.237-267) -- Songs from the works of C. Dibdin, jun., (pp.268-285) -- National songs, from popular ...

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Songs of the late Charles Dibdin : with a memoir

Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814); Dibdin, Charles (1768-1833); Dibdin, Thomas (1771-1841); Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)

1849

At head of title: Under the patronage of the lords of the Admiralty. Without music.

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A collection of songs : selected from the works of Mr. Dibdin (v.1)

Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814)

[1792]-1799

Without dedication, preface or advertisement. Index at endof volumes 1-4, and at beginning of volume 5.

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