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Brotherton Collection12
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Herbert Read Collection3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2

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ballads, english18
english poetry18
minstrels4
romances4
folk songs, english2
german poetry2
scottish poetry1
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Percy, Thomas (1729-1811)12
Gilfillan, George (1813-1878)3
Wheatley, Henry Benjamin3
Wheatley, Henry Benjamin (1838-1917)3
Lewis, M G (1775-1818)2
Alison, James Napier1
Bodleian Library1
Cutts, John P (1927-)1
Grampian (Scotland)1
Grampian (Scotland). Regional Council1

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Seventeenth century songs : now first printed from a Bodleian manuscript

Cutts, John P (1927-); Kermode, Frank (1919-2010); Bodleian Library

1956

Limited edition of 150 copies only.

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BC MS Lt q 59, f.1v: The opening of
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A ballad made of a high and mighty controversy betwixt two knights in Cheshire.

c.1700-1750

Comprises a single poem concerning a quarrel between two kinsmen, Sir Peter Leycester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring, concerning a female ancestor, corresponding to Crum T3451.

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BC MS Lt q 60, f.1r: The opening of
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The history of the impeatchment or, The nations run mad : a new ballad.

c.1710

Comprises an English poem on the Sacheverell affair, published in 1710 according to Foxon,'English Verse, 1701-1750', N5.

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Poetry of northeast Scotland

Alison, James Napier; Grampian (Scotland). Regional Council

1976

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Tales of wonder

Lewis, M G (1775-1818)

1801

Imitations, translations, etc., in verse, including contributions by Scott and others. Contains only 32 tales; probably a reprint of the 1st edition, 1800. Another edition, also in 1801, contained 60 ...

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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 (v.1)

Percy, Thomas (1729-1811); Gilfillan, George (1813-1878)

1858

Reprinted entire from the author's last edition. With memoir and critical dissertation, by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

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