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Total number of records: 139

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items135
Archives4

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection74
English Literature47
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections9
Herbert Read Collection9
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2
Ripon Cathedral2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
ballads, english139
folk songs, english29
songs, english23
english poetry18
sea songs14
ballads, scottish8
english literature8
english language5
minstrels5
ballads, scots4

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PlaceCount
Borders Region (Scotland)3
Cumberland2
England1
Exeter (England)1
New England1
Wales1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814)15
Percy, Thomas (1729-1811)14
Child, Francis James (1825-1896)8
Evans, Thomas (1742-1784)7
D'Urfey, Thomas6
D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)6
Kittredge, George Lyman (1860-1941)6
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)4
Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)3
Dibdin, Charles (1768-1833)3

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From 170035
From 180071
From 190029

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Up to 179936
Up to 189965
Up to 199936

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The ballad book

Kinloch, George Ritchie (1796?-1877)

1885

"This reprint is limited to 275 small-paper and 75 large-paper copies."

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The book of British ballads (v.1)

Hall, S C (1800-1889)

1844-45

Paged continuously.

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The book of British ballads (v.2)

Hall, S C (1800-1889)

1844-45

Paged continuously.

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Legendary ballads

Sidgwick, Frank

1908

Title in blue with ornamental border.

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New lyrical ballads : anthology

Carpenter, Maurice; Lindsay, Jack (1900-1990); Arundel, Honor; Bridgen, John William

1945

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The Ballad poetry of Ireland

Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan (1816-1903)

1845

"Anglo-Irish ballads; the production of educated men, with English tongues but Irish hearts."--Introd., p. xv.

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Holroyd's collection of Yorkshire ballads : With some remarks on ballad lore by W.J. Kaye, and a life of Abraham Holroyd by William Scruton

Holroyd, Abraham; Forshaw, Charles F (1863-); Scruton, William (1840-1924); Kaye, W J

1892

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