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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811 [Editor]; Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917 [Editor]

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of...

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700Ballads, English -- TextsRomances, English -- History and criticism
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811 [Editor]; Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917 [Editor]

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of...

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700Ballads, English -- TextsRomances, English -- History and criticism
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811 [Editor]; Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917 [Editor]

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of...

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700Ballads, English -- TextsRomances, English -- History and criticism
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Robin Hood A collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw. To which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life.

Ritson, Joseph, 1752-1803 [Compiler]; Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828 [Illustrator]; Buckman, Edwin, 1841-1930 [Illustrator]; Tourrier, Alfred Holst, 1836?-1892 [Illustrator]

Robin Hood A collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw. To which are prefixed histori...

Songs, English -- England -- TextsBallads, English -- England -- TextsRobin Hood (Legendary character) -- Poetry
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American War Ballads and Lyrics, Volume 1 (of 2) A Collection of the Songs and Ballads of the Colonial Wars, the Revolutions, the War of 1812-15, the War with Mexico and the Civil War

Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911 [Editor]

American War Ballads and Lyrics, Volume 1 (of 2) A Collection of the Songs and Ballads of the Colonial Wars, the Revolutions, the War of 1812-15, the War w...

War poetry, AmericanUnited States -- History -- PoetryWar songs -- United States -- Texts
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American War Ballads and Lyrics, Volume 2 (of 2) A Collection of the Songs and Ballads of the Colonial Wars, the Revolutions, the War of 1812-15, the War with Mexico and the Civil War

Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911 [Editor]

American War Ballads and Lyrics, Volume 2 (of 2) A Collection of the Songs and Ballads of the Colonial Wars, the Revolutions, the War of 1812-15, the War w...

War poetry, AmericanUnited States -- History -- PoetryWar songs -- United States -- Texts
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Fe...

Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Scottish Borders -- TextsScottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- Songs and musicScottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- Poetry
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