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Folksongs, English

Published Collections
17thC
1698 : Thomas D'Urfey : Songs Compleat
(1698-1720 W Pearson for J Tonson, London) - 6 vols

18thC
1724 : Allan Ramsay : The Tea-Table Miscellany
(Edinburgh) - 3 vols

1800-1850
1822 : The Vocal Library
(Sir Richard Phillips, London)
1834 : The Universal Songster
(or Museum of Mirth) (Routledge, London)
1838 : William Chappell : National English Airs
(Chappell & Simpkin Marshall, London)
1843 : Rev John Broadwood : Old English Songs
(PP in London)

1851-1900
1858 : Wm Chappell : Popular Music of the Olden Time
(1858-9 Cramer, Beale & Chappell, London) - 2 vols
1882 : Rev J Bruce & J Stokoe : Northumbrian Minstrelsy
(Newcastle Society of Antiquaries)
1883 : Charlotte Sophia Burne : Shropshire Folk-Lore
(Longmans Green, London)
1888 : Heywood Sumner : The Besom Maker
(Longmans Green, London)
1889 : Rev S Baring-Gould & Rev H Fleetwood Sheppard : Songs and Ballads of the West
(1889-91 Patey & Willis, London)
1890 : Rev John Broadwood : Sussex Songs
(Stanley, Lucas & Weber, London)
1891 : Wm Alexander Barrett : English Folk-Songs
(Novello, London)
1891 : Frank Kidson : Traditional Tunes
(C Taphouse, Oxford)
1893 : Lucy Broadwood & J A Fuller-Maitland : English County Songs
(Cramer, London)
1895 : S Baring-Gould & Fleetwood Sheppard : A Garland of Counry Song
(Methuen)
1899 : Journal of the Folk-Song Society
(London 1899-1931) - 35 vols

1901-1910
1902 : Cecil J Sharp : A Book of British Song
(Murray)
1904 : Rev Geoffrey Hill : Wiltshire Folk Songs and Carols
(W Mate, Bournemouth)
1904 : Cecil J Sharp & Charles L Marson : Folk Songs from Somerset
(Simpkin Marshall 1904-9) - 5 vols
1905 : S Baring Gould, Fleetwood & F W Bussell : Songs of the West
(Methuen)
1907 : Alice E Gillington : Eight Hampshire Songs
(Curwen, London)
1908 : Lucy Broadwood : English Traditional Songs & Carols
(Boosey, London)
1908 : H E D Hammond : Folk Songs from Dorset
(Novello, London)
1908 : Ralph Vaughan Williams : Folk Songs from Eastern Counties
(Novello)
1909 : George B Gardiner : Folk Songs from Hampshire
(Novello)

1911-1920
1911 : Alice E Gillington : Songs of the Open Road
(Williams, London)
1912 : George Butterworth : Folk Songs from Sussex
(Augener, London)
1912 : Mrs E M leather : Folk-Lore from Sussex
(Novello)
1912 : W Percy Merrick : Folk Songs from Sussex
(Novello)
1915 : Clive Carey : ten English Folk Songs
(Curwen, London)

1921-1930
1921 : Cecil J Sharp : English Folk Songs
(Novello) - 2 vols
1921 : W Gillies Whittaker : North Countrie Ballds, Songs & Pipe-Tunes
(Curwen, London)
1922 : John Symonds Udal : Dorsetshire Folk-Lore
(Austin, Hertford)
1923 : Alfred Owen Williams : Folk Songs of the Upper Thames
(Duckworth)
1926 : Frank Kidson & Alfred Moffat : A Garland of English Folk Songs
(Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, London)
1927 : Frank Kidson & Alfred Moffat : Folk Songs from the North Countrie
(Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, London)
1929 : Kidson, Ethel Kidson & A Moffat : English Peasant Songs
(Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, London)

1931-1950
1932 : E J Moeran : Six Suffolk Folk Songs
(Curwen, London)
1932 : Journal of the English Folk Dance & Song Society
(London 1932-64) - 32 vols
1946 : Francis M Collinson & Francis Dillon : Songs from the Countryside
(Paxton, London)

1951-1970
1952 : Francis M Collinson & Francis Dillon : Folk Songs from Country Magazine
(Paxton, London)
1952 : A L Lloyd : Come All Ye Bold Miners
(Lawrence & Wishart, London)
1959 : R Vaughan Williams & A L Loyd : The Penguin Book of English Folk Song
1965 : Frank Purslow : Marrowbones
(EFDS Publ, London)
1966 : Inglis Gundry : Canow Kernow
(Fed of Old Cornwall Societies)
1967 : Fred Hamer : Garners Gay
(EFDS)
1968 : Patrick O'Shaughnessy : Lincolnshire Folk Songs
(OUP)
1968 : Frank Purslow : The Wanton Seed
(EFDS)
1969 : Gwen & Mary Polwarth : North Country Songs
(Frank Graham, Newcastle)
1970 : Ken Stubbs : The Life of a Man
(EFDS)

1971-1975
1972 : Karl Dallas : The Curle Wars - 100 Soldier Songs
(Wolfe, London)
1972 : Roy Palmer : Songs of the Midlands
(E P Publ, Wakefield)
1972 : Frank Purslow : The constant Lovers
(EFDS)
1973 : Harry & lesley Boardman : Folk Songs & Ballads of Lancashire
(Oak/Music Sales, London)
1974 : Karl Dallas : One Hundred Songs of Toil
(Wolfe, London)
1974 : Maud Karpeles : Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs
(OUP) - 2 vols
Frank Purslow : The Foggy Dew
(EFDS)
1975 : Peter Kennedy : Folksongs of Britain & Ireland
(Schirmer, NY / Cassell, London)

After 1975
1976 : Tony Foxworthy : Forty Long Miles
(EFDS)
1977 : Jon Raven : Urban & Industrial Songs of the Black Country & Birmingham
(Broadside, Wolverhampton)
1979 : David Occomore & Philip Spratley : Bushes and Briars - An Anthology of Essex Songs
(Monkswood Press)
1979 : Roy Palmer : Everyman's Book of English Country Song
(Dent, London)
1979 : Sam Richards & Tish Stubbs : The English Folksinger
(Collins)
1980 : Mike Harding : Folk Songs of Lancashire
(Whitehorn, Manchester)
1983 : Roy Palmer : Folk Songs Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams
(Dent)

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