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)