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Gypsy Books

Alphabetical
ACTON, Thomas : Gypsy Politics & Social Change
(1974 London)
ADAMS, B et al : Gypsies and Government Policy in England
(1975 London)
ADLER, Marta : My Life with the Gypsies
(1960)
ABERLIN, Sven : Dromengro
(1971)

BAIRD, John : The Scottish Gipsies Advocate
(1839 Lindsay)
A BARRERE & C G LELAND : A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant
(1897 London)
George F BLACK : A Gypsy Bibliography
(1909 Edinburgh)
A Gypsy Bibliography
(1914 Gypsy Lore Society, London)
BORROW, George : The Zincali
(1841) - 3 vols
The Bible in Spain
(1842) - 3 vols
Lavengro
(1851) - 3 vols
The Romany Rye
(1857) - 3 vols
Romano Lavo Lil
(1874)
BOSWELL, Sylvester : The Book of Boswell
(1970 London)
BRIGHT, Richard : Travels from Vienna Through Lower Hungary
(1818 Constable)
BROCKIE, William : The Gypsies of Yetholm
(1884 Rutherfurd, Kelso)
Dr Irving BROWN : Nights and Days on the Gypsy Trail
(1922 Harper)
Gypsy Fires in America
(1924 Harper)
Deep Song
(1929 Harper)
Romany Road
(1932 Smith & Haas)
BURTON, Sir Richard : The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam
(1898 Hutchinson)

CLEBERT, Jean-Paul : The Gypsies
(1963 London)
COCKCROFT, Barry : A Romany Summer
(1979)
CRABB, James : The Gypsies Advocate
(1831 Seeley, Edinburgh)
CROFT-COOKE, Rupert : The Moon in My Pocket
(1948)
F CUTTRISS
(Frank R Hinkins & R Cuttree Hinkins) : Romany Life (1915 Mills & Boon)


DODDS, Norman : Gypsies, Didikois and Other Travellers
(1966)
John A FAIRLEY : Bailie Smith of Kelso's Account of the Gypsies of Kirk Yetholm in 1815
(1907 Hawick)

Alice E GILLINGTON : Gypsies of the Heath
(1916 Mathews, London)
Sharon GMELCH & Pat LANGAN : Tinkers and Travellers
(1975 Dublin)
GRELLMAN, Herman : Dissertation on the Gypsies
(1783 Germany) (1787 Elmsley)
(1807 Effingham Wilson)
GROOME, Frances Hindes : In Gypsy Tents
(1880 Nimmo. Edinburgh)
Kriegspiel
(1896 Ward Lock & Bowden)
Gypsy Folk-Tales
(1899 Hurst & Blackett)

Rev George HALL : The Gypsy's Parson
(1915 Low)
Ian HANCOCK : We are the Romani People
(2002 University of Hertforshire Press £9.99)
HARRIOT, John Staples : Observations on the Oriental Origin of the Romanichel, or a
Tribe Miscalled Gipsey or Bohemian
(1830 Cox)
HARVEY, David : The Gypsies, Waggon Time and After
(1979)
HOYLAND, John : A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits and Present State of the Gypsies
(1816 Hoyland, York)

LELAND, Charles Godfrey : The English Gypsies and Their Language
(1873 Trubner, London)
The Gypsies
(1882)
Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling
(1891)
Joseph LUCAS : The Yetholm History of the Gypsies
(1882 Rutherfurd)
Eileen LYSTER : The Gypsy Life of Betsy Wood
(1926 Dent)

MacALISTER, Robert Andrew Stewart : The Language of the Nawar or Zutt
(1914 Quaritch)
The Secret Languages of Ireland
(1937 CUP)
Andrew McCORMICK : The Tinker-Gypsies
(1906 Maxwell, London)
Words from the Wild-Wood
(1912 Fraser, Asher)
MCFIE, Robert Andrew Scott : The Romanichels
(1909 M'Gee)
Gypsy Coppersmiths in Liverpool and Birkenhead
(1913 Young)
With Gypsies in Bulgaria
(1916 Young)
MACRITICHIE, David : Ancient and Modern Britons
(1884 Kegan Paul) - 2 vols
Accounts of the Gypsies of India
(1886 Kegan Paul)
Scottish Gypsies Under the Stewarts
(1894 Douglas, Edinburgh)
MCEVOY, Patrick A : The Gorse and the Briar
(1938)
MORWOOD, Vernon S : Our Gypsies in City, Tent and Van
(1895 Sampson Low)

OKLEY, Judith : The Traveller Gypsies
(1983)

Elizabeth Robins PENNELL : To Gipsyland
(1893 Fisher Unwin) - Joseph Pennell

REEVE, Dominic : Smoke in the Lanes
(1958)
No Place Like Home
(1960)
Whichever Way we Turn
(1964)
REHFISCH, Farnham : Gypsies, Tinkers and Other Travellers
(1975 London)
REISS, Christopher : The Education of Travelling Children
(1975)
ROBERTS, Samuel : Parallel Miracles, or The Jews and the Gypsies
(1830)
The Gypsies
(1836 Longmans)

SAMPSON, John : The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales
(1926)
The Wind on the Heath
(1930)
SIMSON, Walter : A History of the Gipsies
(1865 Sampson Low)
SMART, Charles/CROFTON, Henry : The Dialect of the English Gypsies
(1875 London)
The Dialect of the English Gypsies
(1875 Asher, London)
SMITH, George : Gipsy Life
(1880 Houghton)
I've Been A-Gipsying
(1883 Fisher Unwin)
Gipsy Children
(1889)
SMITH, Hubert : Tent Life with English Gypsies in Norway
(1873 H S King)
Laura SMITH : Through Romany Songland
(1889 Stott)
SMITH, Rodney : Gipsy Smith, His Life and Work
(nd. 1901 Nat Council of the Evangelical Free Churches)
STARKIE, Walter : Raggle Taggle
(1933)
In Sara's Tents
(1953)
Anne SUTHERLAND : Gypsies - The Hidden Americans
(1975 London)

VESEY-FITZGERALD, Brian : Gypsies of Britain
(1944)

YATES, Dora : My Gypsy Days
(1953)
YOORS, Jan : The Gypsies
(1967)

C H WARD-JACKSON & Denis E HARVEY: The English Gypsy Caravan
(1972 Newton Abbot)
Manfri Frederick WOOD : In the Life of a Romany Gypsy
(1973 London)
Henry WOODCOCK : The Gipsies
(1865 Lister)

READING
The Gypsy Lore Society was founded in May 1888 and its "Journal" was
published from 1888-92, and again from 1907-16
The Catalogue of the Scott Macfie Gypsy Collection at Liverpool University
(1936)
Catalogue of the Romany Collection at Leeds University
(1962 Nelson)

Chronological
18thC
GRELLMAN, Herman : Dissertation on the Gypsies
(1787)

1800-1850
HOYLAND, John : A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits and Present State of the Gypsies
(1816 York)
BRIGHT, Richard : Travels from Vienna Through Lower Hungary
(1818)
HARRIOT, John Staples : Observations on the Oriental Origin of the Romanichel, or a
Tribe Miscalled Gipsey or Bohemian
(1830)
ROBERTS, Samuel : Parallel Miracles, or The Jews and the Gypsies
(1830)
CRABB, James : The Gypsies Advocate
(1831 Edinburgh)
BAIRD, John : The Scottish Gipsies Advocate
(1839)
BORROW, George : The Zincali
(1841) - 3 vols
BORROW, George : The Bible in Spain
(1842) - 3 vols

1851-1875
BORROW, George : Lavengro
(1851) - 3 vols
BORROW, George : The Romany Rye
(1857) - 3 vols
SIMSON, Walter : A History of the Gipsies
(1865 London)
LELAND, Charles Godfrey : The English Gypsies and Their Language
(1873 London)
SMITH, Hubert : Tent Life with English Gypsies in Norway
(1873 H S King, London)
BORROW, George : Romano Lavo Lil
(1874)
SMART, Charles/CROFTON, Henry : The Dialect of the English Gypsies
(1875 Asher, London)

1876-1890
GROOME, Frances Hindes : In Gypsy Tents
(1880 Edinburgh)
SMITH, George : Gipsy Life
(1880)
LELAND, Charles Godfrey : The Gypsies
(1882)
SMITH, George : I've Been A-Gipsying
(1883)
BROCKIE, William : The Gypsies of Yetholm
(1884 Kelso)
MACRITICHIE, David : Ancient and Modern Britons
(1884) - 2 vols
MACRITICHIE, David : Accounts of the Gypsies of India
(1886)
SMITH, George : Gipsy Children
(1889)

1891-1900
LELAND, Charles Godfrey : Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling
(1891)
MACRITICHIE, David : Scottish Gypsies Under the Stewarts
(1894 Edinburgh)
MORWOOD, Vernon S : Our Gypsies in City, Tent and Van
(1895 London)
A BARRERE & C G LELAND : A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant
(1897 London)
BURTON, Sir Richard : The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam
(1898)

1901-1920
John A FAIRLEY : Bailie Smith of Kelso's Account of the Gypsies of Kirk Yetholm in 1815
(1907 Hawick)
Andrew McCORMICK : The Tinker-Gypsies
(1907 London)
George F BLACK : A Gypsy Bibliography
(1909 Edinburgh)
MCFIE, Robert Andrew Scott : The Romanichels
(1909)
MCFIE, Robert Andrew Scott : Coppersmiths in Liverpool and Birkenhead
(1913)
MACALISTER, Robert Andrew Stewart : The Language of the Nawar of Zutt
(1914)
G F A BLACK : A Gypsy Bibliography
(1914 Gypsy Lore Society, London)
Alice E GILLINGTON : Gypsies of the Heath
(1916 London)

1921-1940
SAMPSON, John : The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales
(1926)
SAMPSON, John : The Wind on the Heath
(1930)
STARKIE, Walter : Raggle Taggle
(1933)
MCEVOY, Patrick A : The Gorse and the Briar
(1938)

1941-1960
VESEY-FITZGERALD, Brian : Gypsies of Britain
(1944)
CROFT-COOKE, Rupert : The Moon in My Pocket
(1948)
STARKIE, Walter : In Sara's Tents
(1953)
YATES, Dora : My Gypsy Days
(1953)
REEVE, Dominic : Smoke in the Lanes
(1958)
REEVE, Dominic : No Place Like Home
(1960)
ADLER, Marta : My Life with the Gypsies
(1960)

1961-1970
CLEBERT, Jean-Paul : The Gypsies
(1963 London)
REEVE, Dominic : Whichever Way we Turn
(1964)
DODDS, Norman : Gypsies, Didikois and Other Travellers
(1966)
YOORS, Jan : The Gypsies
(1967)
BOSWELL, Sylvester : The Book of Boswell
(1970 London)

1971-1980
ABERLIN, Sven : Dromengro
(1971)
C H WARD-JACKSON & Denis E HARVEY: The English Gypsy Caravan
(1972 Newton Abbot)
Manfri Frederick WOOD : In the Life of a Romany Gypsy
(1973 London)
ACTON, Thomas : Gypsy Politics & Social Change
(1974 London)
ADAMS, B et al : Gypsies and Government Policy in England
(1975 London)
Sharon GMELCH & Pat LANGAN : Tinkers and Travllers
(1975 Dublin)
REHFISCH, Farnham : Gypsies, Tinkers and Other Travellers
(1975 London)
REISS, Christopher : The Education of Travelling Children
(1975)
Anne SUTHERLAND : Gypsies - The Hidden Americans
(1975 London)
COCKCROFT, Barry : A Romany Summer
(1979)
HARVEY, David : The Gypsies, Waggon Time and After
(1979)

After 1981
OKLEY, Judith : The Traveller Gypsies
(1983)
SMITH, Rodney : Gipsy Smith, His Life and Work
(nd)
Ian HANCOCK : We are the Romani People
(2002 University of Hertforshire Press £9.99)
[This Press also produces other works on the Romani life & culture]

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