Scots songs and ballads : manuscript, 1873-1874.

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Scots songs and ballads : manuscript, 1873-1874.

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The transcripts from British Library, Add. MS 22.311 are ballads compiled by David Herd that do not appear in Herd's Ancient and modern Scotish songs. The ballads copied from Ritson are those that do not appear in Herd's publication or in his manuscript.

1 v. (222 leaves) ; 34 cm.

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Child, Francis James, 1825-1896

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The materials in this bound volume were generated due to a manuscript called the "Harris manuscript." The Harris manuscript was written down by the sisters Amelia Harris (1815-1891) and Jane Harris (1823-1897). They compiled a family repertoire of Scottish ballads, mainly passed on orally to the sisters by their mother, Grace Dow Harris (Mrs. David Harris) (b.1782). This manuscript and some correspondence was purchased in 1873 by Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University who was a scho...

Ritson, Joseph, 1752-1803

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Joseph Ritson (1752-1803), antiquarian and literary scholar, is best known for his concern for textual accuracy and as the editor of several poetry anthologies, including The Northumbrian Garland (1793). He also published Observations on...the History of English Poetry (1782) and the Bibliographia Poetica (1802). From the description of Joseph Ritson collection, 1782-1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132840 English literary antiquary. From the description o...

Herd, David, 1732-1810

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