18thC
William THOMSON : Orpheus Caledonius (1725 London) - 2 vols
David HERD : Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs (1776 Edinburgh) - 2 vols
(Ed) James JOHNSON : The Scots Musical Museum (1787 Edinburgh) - 6 vols
David ALLAN : Songs of the Lowlands of Scotland (1799 Edinburgh)

1800-1850
Robert JAMIESON : Popular Ballads and Songs (1806 Edinburgh) - 2 vols
Allan CUNNINGHAM : Songs of Scotland (1825 London) - 4 vols
W MacNIE (printer) : 19thC Scottish Broadside Ballads (1825 MacNie, Stirling)
George R KINLOCH : Ancient Scottish Ballads (1827 London)
Cuthbert SHARP : The Bishoprick Garland (1834 Newcastle Upon Tyne) (reprinted 1969)
Robert CHAMBERS : Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1841 Edinburgh)
James Orchard HALLIWELL : The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842) (1970 London. Reprint)

1851-1875
William CHAPPELL : Popular Music of the Olden Time (1850-9 London) - 2 vols
James Henry DIXON & Robert BELL : Ballads & Songs of the Peasantry of England (1857 London)
W E AYTOUN : The Ballads of Scotland (1858 Edinburgh)
Robert CHAMBERS : The Songs of Scotland Prior to Burns (1862 Edinburgh)
Joseph RITSON : Scottish Song (1869 Glasgow. revised Ed) - 2 vols
Charles ROGERS : The Scottish Minstrel (1870 Edinburgh)
BRITISH MUSEUM : LR271 A Collection of Ballads, Chiefly Catnach & Pitt 1800-70 (1871) - 10 vols
Patrick Weston JOYCE : Ancient Irish Music (1873 Dublin)
Peter BUCHAN : Ancient Ballads & Songs of the North of Scotland (1875 Edinburgh) - 2 vols

1876-1899
William CHRISTIE : Traditional Ballad Airs (1876-81 Edinburgh) - 2 vols
Robert BELL : Early Ballads (1877 London)
M H MASON : Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs (1878 London)
Francis J CHILD : The English & Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-9 Cambs, Mass) - 5 vols
William Wells NEWELL : Games and Songs of American Children (1883 NY)
John ASHTON : A Century of Ballads Illustrative of the Life, Manners and Habits of the English
Nation during the 17thC (1887)
Henry Carrington BOLTON : Counting-Out Rhymes of Children (1888 NY)
Laura Alexandrine SMITH : Through Roamny Songland (1889 London)
John ASHTON : Real Sailor Songs (1891 London)
Frank KIDSON : Traditional Tunes (1891 Oxford)
G F NORTHALL : English Folk-Rhymes (1892 London)
John STOKOE & Samuel REAY : Songs and Ballads of Northern England
(1892 Newcastle Upon Tyne)
Lucy E BROADWOOD & J A Fuller MAITLAND : English County Songs (1893 London)
Robert FORD : The Harp of Perthshire (1893 Paisley)
Alfred Perceval GRAVES : The Irish Song Book (1895 London)
John S FARMER : Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) - 5 vols
John Stuart BLACKIE : Scottish Song (1899 Edinburgh)
Robert FORD : Vagabond Songs & Ballads of Scotland (1899-1901 Paisley) - 2 vols

1901-1925
John GLEN : Early Scottish Melodies (1900 Edinburgh)
George PETRIE : The Complete Petrie Collection of Irish Music (Ed by Charles Villiers Stanford)
(1902-5 NY)
James C DICK : The Songs of Robert Burns (1903 London)
Robert FORD : Children's Rhymes (1903 Paisley)
Hans HECHT : Songs from David Herd's Manuscripts (1904 London)
Sabine BARING-GOULD & H Fleetwood SHEPPARD : Songs of the West (1905 London)
Alice E GILLINGTON : Eight Hampshire Folksongs (nd 1907 London)
Patrick Weston JOYCE : Old Irish Folk Music and Song (1909 Dublin)
Alice E GILLINGTON : Songs of the Open Road (1911 London)
RYMOUR CLUB MISCELLANEA (1911-38 Edinburgh) - 3 vols
Patrick Weston JOYCE : Ancient Irish Music (1912 Dublin. Reprint of 1873 Edition)
George S K BUTTERWORTH : Folk Songs from Sussex (1913 London)
Herbert HUGHES : Irish Country Songs (1914 London) - 2 vols
Cecil J SHARP : English Folksongs (1920 London) - 2 vols
Thomas & George ALLAN : Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs & Readings
(1921 London)
Alfred WILLIAMS : Folk-Songs of the Upper Thames (1923 London)
John Harrington COX : Folk-Songs of the South (1925 Cambs, Mass)
Gavin GREIG & Alexander KEITH : Last leaves of Traditional Ballads & Ballad Airs
(1925 Aberdeen)

1926-1940
Frank KIDSON & Alfred MOFFAT : A Garland of English Folksongs (1926 London)
Fannie H ECKSTORM & Mary Winslow SMYTH : Minstrelsy of Maine (1927 Boston)
Carl SANDBURG : The American Songbag (1927 NY)
W Roy MACKENZIE : Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia (1928 Cambs, Mass)
Lowry C WIMBERLY : Folklore in the English and Scottish Ballads (1928 NY)
Bulletin of the Folksong Society of the Northeast (1930-7 Cambs, Mass)
John ORD : The Bothy Songs & Ballads of Aberdeen, Banff & Moray, Angus and the Mearns
(1930 Paisley)
Helen Hartness FLANDERS & George BROWN : Vermont Folksongs & Ballads
(1931 Brattleboro, Vermont)
Sir Walter SCOTT : Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1932 Edinburgh. Reprint) - 4 vols
Cecil J SHARP & Maud KARPELES : English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians
(1932 London) - 2 vols
Stith THOMPSON : Motif-Index of Folk Literature (1932-6 Helsinki) - 6 vols
Elizabeth B GREENLEAF & Grace Y MANSFIELD : Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland
(1933 Cambs, Mass)
Benjamin A BOTKIN : The American Play-Party Song (1937 Lincoln, Nebraska)
Phillips BARRY : The Maine Woods Songster (1939 Cambs, Mass)
Helen Hartness FLANDERS, Elizabeth F BALLARD, G BROWN & P BARRY : The New Green
Mountain Songster (1939 New Haven, Conn)
Mary O EDDY : Ballads and Songs from Ohio (1939 NY)
Emelyn E GARDNER & Geraldine CHICKERING : Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan
(1939 Ann Arbor, Michigan)
P BARRY, Fanny Hardie ECKSTORM & Mary Winslow SMYTH : British Ballads from Maine
(1939 New Haven, Conn)
Eloise Hubbard LINSCOTT : Folk Songs of Old New England (1939 NY)
Colm O'LOCHLAINN : Irish Street Ballads (1939 Dublin)
H M BELDEN : Ballads and Songs (1940 Columbia, Missouri)

1941-1950
Ethel & Chauncey O MOORE : Ballads and Folk Songs of the Southwest
(1946 Univ of Oklahoma Press)
Vance RANDOLPH : Ozark Folksongs (1946 Columbia, Missouri) - 4 vols
Benjamin A BOTKIN : A Treasury of New England Folklore (1947 NY)
Ruth Crawford SEEGER : American Folksongs for Children (1948 NY)
Benjamin A BOTKIN : A Treasury of Southern Folklore (1949 NY)
Richard CHASE : Hullabaloo & Other Singing Folk Games (1949 Cambs, Mass)
Alan LOMAX : Our Singing Country (1949 NY)
James Orchard HALLIWELL : Popular Rhymes & Nursery tales of England (1949 London)
(1970 London. reprint)
Tristan P COFFIN : The British Traditional Ballad in North America (1950 Phila)
F Doreen CULLEN : Traditional Number Rhymes and Games (1950 London)
James S KERR : Buchan Bothy Ballads (nd Glasgow)
James S KERR : Cornkisters (1950 Glasgow)

1951-1955
Benjamin A BOTKIN : A Treasury of Western Folklore (1951 NY)
William M DOERFLINGER : Shatymen & Shantyboys (1951 NY)
Iona & Peter OPIE : The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951 London)
Frank C BROWN : The Frank C Brown Collection of N Carolina Folklore
(1952 Durham, N Carolina) - 7 vols
Helen CREIGHTON & Doreen H SENIOR : Twelve Folk Songs from Nova Scotia (1953 London)
Margaret DEAN-SMITH : A Guide to English Folk Song Collections 1833-1952
(1954 Liverpool UP / Eng Folk Song Dance Soc)
Ewan McCOLL : Scotland Sings (1953 London)
Helen Hartness FLANDERS & Marguerite OLNEY : Ballads Migrant in New England (1953 NY)

1956-1960
(Ed) Albert R FRIEDMAN : The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English Speaking World
(1956 Viking)
(in UK as "the Penguin Book of Folk Ballads of the English Speaking World" 1977 Penguin)
David HOLBROOK : Children's Games (1957 Bedford)
Malcolm LAWS Jnr : American Balladry from British Broadsides (1957 Phila)
Vivian de Sola PINTO & Allan E RODWAY : The Common Muse (1957 NY)
James REEVES : The Idiom of the People (1958 London)
Bertrand Harris BRONSON : The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads
(1959-72 Princeton, NJ) - 4 vols
Iona & peter OPIE : Lore and Language of School-Children (1959 Oxford)
Cecil J SHARP : English Folksongs (1959 London. Reprint of 1920 Edition in 1 vol)
Helen Hartness FLANDERS : Ancient Ballads Traditionally Sung in New England
(1960-5 Phila) - 4 vols
Alan LOMAX : Folksongs of North America (1960 London)
James REEVES : The Everlasting Circle (1960 London)
Peggy SEEGER & Ewan MacCOLL : The Singing Island (1960 London)

1961-1965
Antti ARNE & Stith THOMPSON : The Types of the Folktale (1961 Helsinki)
Lester A HUBBARD : Ballads and Songs from Utah (1961 Salt Lake City)
Stan HUGILL : Shanties from the Seven Seas (1961 London)
Norman BUCHAN : 101 Scottish Songs (1962 Glasgow & London)
Patrick GALVIN : Irish Songs of Resistance (1962 NY)
Helen CREIGHTON : Maritime Folk Songs (1962)
Harold W THOMPSON : Body, Boots and Britches (1962 NY)
Gavin GREIG : Folksongs of the Northeast (1963 Hatboro, Penn. Reprint)
Gale HUNTINGTON : Songs the Whalemen Sang (1964 Barre, Mass)
Gershon LEGMAN : The Horn Book (1964 NY)
Alice Bertha GOMME : The Traditional Games of England, Scotland & Ireland
(1964 NY, reprint) - 2 vols
James T RITCHIE : The Singing Street (1964 Edinburgh)
Edith FOWKE : Traditional Singers & Songs from Ontario (1965 Hatboro, Penn)
Colm O'LOCHLAINN : More Irish Street Ballads (1965 Dublin)
Kenneth PEACOCK : Songs of the Newfoundland Outports (1965 Ottawa) - 3 vols
Frank PURSLOW : Marrowbones (1965 London)
James T R RITCHIE : Golden City (1965 Edinburgh)
Lowry C WIMBERLY : Folklore in the English and Scottish Ballads
(1965 reprint of 1928 edition, NY)

1966-1970
Pierre Louis DUCHARTE : The Italian Comedy (1966 NY)
Josiah H COMBS (Edited by D K Wilgus) : Folk-Songs of the Southern United States
(1967 Austin, Texas)
George Denis ZIMMERMAN : Songs of the Irish Rebellion (1967 Penn)
Frank PURSLOW : The Wanton Seed (1968 London)
Edward CRAY : The Erotic Muse (1969 NY)
W H LOGAN : A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs (1969 Edinburgh)
(Ed) James BARKE & Sydney Goodsir SMITH : The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1969 Edinburgh)
Iona & peter OPIE : Childrens Games in Street and Playground (1969 Oxford)
Fred HAMER : Garners Gay (1970 London)
James Orchard HALLIWELL : The Nursery Rhymes of England (1970 London. reprint of 1842 edition)

Since 1971
Helen CREIGHTON : Folk-songs from Southern New Brunswick (1971 Ottawa)
Maud KARPELES : Folksongs from Newfoundland (1971 London)
Frank RUTHERFORD : All the Way to Pennywell (1971 Durham)
Bessie JONES & Bess Lomax HAWES : Step it Down (1972 NY)
Frank PURSLOW : The Constant Lovers (1972 London)
Norman BUCHAN & Peter HALL : The Scottish Folksinger (1973 London)
Cecil J SHARP : Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs (edited by Maud Karpeles)
(1974 London) - 2 vols
(Ed) Mary ASHRAF : Political Song and Verse from Britain and Ireland (1975)
Peter KENNEDY : Folksongs of Britain and Ireland (1975 London)
Patriock O'SHAUNESSY : Yellowbelly Ballads (1975 Lincoln)
Ewan McCOLL & Peggy SEEGER : Travellers' Songs from England & Scotland (1977 London)