18thC
1723 : Ambrose PHILLIPS - A Collection of Old Ballads
1725 : William THOMSON - Orpheus Caledonius
1765 : Bishop Thomas PERCY - Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (London 1765-94) - 3 vols
1769 : David HERD - The Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, Heroic Ballads
(1769, 1776, 1870 Dickson & Elliott, Edinburgh)
1783 : Joseph RITSON - A Select Collection of English Tunes with Their Original Airs
1784 : Joseph RITSON - The Bishopric Garland (or Durham Minstrel) (1810 Stockton, London)
1790 : S HARWARD - Choice Collection of Songs (Tewkesbury)
1790 : Joseph RITSON - Ancient Songs (London 1829 - 2 vols)
1794 : Joseph RITSON - Scottish Songs (1823 London)

19thC
1802 : Sir Walter SCOTT - Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-3 Edinburgh) - 3 vols
1810 : Joseph RITSON - Northern Garlands
1812 : John BELL - Rhymes of the Northern Bards (Newcastle)
1827 : William MOTHERWELL - Minstrelsy : Ancient & Modern (Glasgow)
1846 : James Henry DIXON - Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry
(Percy Society, London)
1850 : Edward RIMBAULT - Musical Illustrations of Bishop Percy's Reliques (Cramer, London)
1851 : James O HALLIWELL - The Yorkshire Anthology (PP in London)
1856 : Robert BELL - Ballads (J Parker, London)
1864 : William ALLINGHAM - The Ballad Book (London)
1864 : Old English Ballads (Ward & Lock) - Birket Foster, G Thomas, Absolon, Franklin
1867 : John W HALES & Frederick J FURNIVALL - The Bishop Percy Folio MS of Old English
Ballads & Romances (1905-10 London 4 vols)
1878 : Ballads - Scottish and English (1878 Nimmo) - John Lawson
1882 : Francis James CHILD - The English & Scottish Popular Ballads
(1882-92 Houghton Mifflin - 8 parts)
1887 : John ASHTON - A Century of Ballds (Elliot Stock, London)
1888 : John ASHTON - Modern Street Ballads (C & W)

1900-1950
1903 : Frank SIDGWICK - Popular Ballads of the Olden Time
(1903-12 A H Bullen, London - 4 parts)
1907 : Francis B GUMMERE - The Popular Ballad (Houghton Mifflin)
1907 : William Morris HART - Ballad and Epic (Boston)
1910 : Sir Arthur QUILLER-COUCH - The Oxford Book of Ballads (OUP)
1912 : Thomas F HENDERSON - The Ballad in Literature (Cambridge)
1914 : Frank SIDGWICK - The Ballad (Martin Secker)
1916 : Sigurd B HUSTVEDT - Ballad Criticism in Scandinavia and Great Britain During the 18thC
(OUP)
1919 : William R MACKENZIE - The Quest of the Ballad (Princeton UP)
1921 : Louise POUND - Poetic Origins and the Ballad (Macmillan NY)
1925 : Gavin GREIG & Alexander KEITH - Last leaves of Traditional Ballads
(The Buchan Club, Aberdeen)
1927 : Robert GRAVES - The English Ballad (Benn)
1928 : Lowry Charles WIMBERLY - Folklore in the English & Scottish Ballads (Chicago UP)
1930 : S B HUSTVEDT - Ballad Books and Ballad Men (Harvard UP)
1932 : Gordon Hall GEROULD - The Ballad of Tradition (OUP)
1937 : John GOSS - Ballads of Britain (John Lane)
1939 : William J ENTWHISTLE - European Balladry (OUP)
1945 : E K CHAMBERS - Oxford History of English Literature (OUP)
1950 : M J C HODGART - The Ballads (Hutchinson)
1950 : Evelyn K WELLS - The Ballad Tree (Ronald Press NY)

1951 Onwards
1957 : Robert GRAVES - English and Scottish Ballads (Heinemann)
1957 : G Malcolm LAWS - American Balladry from British Broadsides
(American Folklore Society, Phila)
1959 : Bertrand Harris BRONSON - The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads
(Princeton UP 1959-72) - 4 vols
1961 : MacEdward LEACH & Tristam P COFFIN - The Critic and the Ballad (S Illinois UP)
1963 : Tristam P COFFIN - The British Traditional Ballad in North America (American F S, Phila)
1965 : G LEGMAN - The Merry Muses of Caledonia (New York Univ Books)
1965 : Willa MUIR - Living with Ballds (Hogarth Press, London)
1969 : Bertrand Harris BRONSON - The Ballad as Song (Univ of Calif Press)
1972 : David BUCHAN - The Ballad and the Folk (RKP)
1976 : E B LYLE - Ballad Studies (D S Brewer, Ipswich)
1978 : David Kerr CAMERON - The Ballad and the Plough (Gollancz)
1979 : Roy PALMER - A Ballad History of England (Batsford)
1980 : Roy PALMER - Everyman's Book of British Ballads (Dent)
1981 : Patrick SHULDHAM-SHAW & Emily B LYLE - The Greig-Duncan Folksong
Collection - Vol 1 (Aberdeen UP)
1982 : Flemming G ANDERSON, Otto HOLZPFEL & Thomas PETTITT - The Ballad
as Narrative (Odense UP)
1983 : Patrick SHULDHAM-SHAW & Emily B LYLE - The Greig-Duncan Folksong
Collection - Vol 2 (Aberdeen UP)
1986 : Georgina BOYES - The Ballad Today (January Books, Doncaster)