Legendary medieval outlaw, hero of numerous ballads and stories.

The earliest known rhymes of Robin Hood appeared about 1500.
Many of the ballads about him appeared in the 16th & 17thCs
The 'Rhymes of Robin Hood' are first mentioned in "Piers Plowman" (c1360)
The Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (c1495 Wykne de Worde)
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The English Archer, or Robert Earl of Huntingdon, Vulgarly Called Robin Hood
(nd. c1780 Jones, Dublin)
Offered in 1995 for £675
Robin Hood's Garland : Being a Compleat History of All the Clever and Merry Exploits
(nd. c1790 Sabine, London)
Offered in 1996 for £450
Adventures of Robin Hood (nd. c1920 Ward Lock)
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Enid BLYTON : Tales of Robin Hood (1930 Newnes)
Richard CARPENTER : Robin of Sherwood (1985 Puffin pb)
Antonia FRASER : Robin Hood (1955 Weidenfeld & Nicolson) - Victor Ambrus
Henry GILBERT : Robin Hood (1912 Jack) - Walter Crane
(Ed) Roger Lancelyn GREEN : The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956 Penguin pb)
Charles HERBERT : Robin Hood (nd. c1931 John F Shaw) - Alfred Pearse
Frank H LEE (retold by) : The Children's Robin Hood (1934 Harrap)
John B MARSH : Adventures of Robin Hood (nd. R E King, London)
H E MARSHALL : Stories of Robin Hood (1905) - A S Forrest
Lucy Fitch PERKINS : Robin Hood, His Deeds and Adventures (1913 Jack) - Lucy Fitch Perkins
Howard PYLE : The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883 Scribner US)
(1883 Sampson Low) - Author
Ian SERRAILLIER : Robin and His Merry Men (1969 OUP) - Victor Ambrus]
Sara Hawks Sterling : Robin Hood and His Merry Men (nd. J Coker) - Rowland Wheelwright
Rosemary SUTCLIFF : The Chronicles of Robin Hood (1950 OUP) - C Walter Hodge
Geoffrey TREASE : Bows Against the Barons (1934 Martin Lawrence)
Evelyn C H VIVIAN : Robin Hood and His Merry Men (1927 Ward Lock) - Harry G Theaker

Robin Hood Comics and Annuals
Robin Hood Library Nos 1-88 : 1st Series (1901-1906 Aldine)
Thriller Comics/Thriller Picture Library (1951-1963 Fleetway) - 56 in all
The Adventures of Robin Hood No 1 (1956 Adprint/Rand McNally)
The Adventures of Robin Hood No 2 (1957 Adprint/Rand McNally)
The Adventures of Robin Hood No 3 (1958 Adprint)
The Adventures of Robin Hood No 4 (1959 Adprint)
Robin Hood Annual 1957 (1956 Amalgamated Press)
Robin Hood Annual 1958 (1957 Amalgamated Press)
Robin Hood Annual 1959 (1958 Amalgamated Press)
Robin Hood Annual 1960 (1959 Fleetway)
Robin of Sherwood Annual 1986 (1985 World International)

READING
18thC
Joseph RITSON : Robin Hood - A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs & Ballads
(1795 T Egerton, London) - 2 vols

19thC
Robin Hood : A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs & Ballads now extant
(1820 Longman) - Anon
The Life & Death of Robin Hood (c1830 Booksellers, Falkirk) - Chapbook
Historical Anecdotes of the Life of Robin Hood, with a Collection of the Ancient
Poems, Songs & Ballads (1846 Wm Walker, Otley)
Robin Hood - A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs & Ballads
(1885 Nimmo) - Thomas Bewick
Offered in 1996 for £340
(Ed) J M GUTCH : Robin Hood (1847 - 2 vols)
Joseph Hunter : The Great Hero of the Ancient English Minstrelsy of England : Robin Hood
(1852 J R Smith, London) (1883 Worksop)
Life and Ballads of Robin Hood & Robin Hood's Garland (1865 Milner & Sowerby)

20thC
The Story of Robin Hood (c1900 McLoughlin Bros, Springfield)
W H Clawson : The Gest of Robin Hood (1909 Toronto UP)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939 Ward Lock) - filmbook starring Errol Flynn
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1954 Ward Lock) - filmbook starring Errol Flynn. Reissue of above
R B Dobson & J Taylor : Rymes of Robyn Hood (1976 London)
The Ballads of Robin Hood (1977 Ltd Eds Club, Np) - 1600 signed by David Gentleman
J C Holt : Robin Hood (1982 Thames & Hudson)
Sir James Holt : Robin Hood (1989)
[In 1993 a MS (dated around 1670) of 21 Robin Hood ballads turned up at auction and
now rests in the British Library as Additional MS 71158.
It became known as the "Forresters MS" and the two books below are related to that MS.]
Arthur Freeman : Robin Hood (Quaritch 1993)
Stephen Knight : Robin Hood - A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (1995 Blackwell £45)
(Ed) Stephen Knight : Robin Hood - The Forresters Manuscript
(1998 Boydell & Brwer, Woodbridge £30)
David Blamires : Robin Hood - A Hero for All Times
(1998 John Rylands Univ Library of Manchester £5.50 pb)
A J Pollard : Imagining Robin Hood - The Late-Medieval Stories in Context
(2004 Routledge £15.99)

FILMS
"Robin Hood" (1922)
"The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938)
"The Bandit of Sherwood Forest" (1946)
"The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men" (1952)
"Men of Sherwood Forest" (1954)
'Robin and Marian" (1976)
"Robin Hood" (1991)
"Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves" (1991)
"Robin Hood : Men in Tights" (1993)