Select Scotish ballads.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinkerton, John, 1758-1826.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballads, English--Scotland.

Ballads, English.

Scotland.

Penn Provenance:

Parsons, Coleman O. (donor)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

London : J. Nichols, 1783.

Contents:

v. 1. Dissertations on the oral tradition of poetry, and on the tragic ballad. Romanze I-IV [Translated from the Spanish] Scotish tragic ballads. Notes. Glossary.

v. 2. A dissertation on the comic ballad. Scotish comic ballads. Notes. Glossary.

Notes:

Title vignettes.

Half-title (v. 1): The second edition, corrected and enlarged.

The first edition consisting of vol. 1 only was published in 1781 under title: Scottish tragic ballads.

Edited by John Pinkerton, who in his "Ancient Scotish poems, never before in print ... 1786" (v. 1, p. cxxviii-cxxxi) admitted the authorship of the second part of Hardyknute and several of the other poems.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: v. 1 lacking.

Bound with the author's Scottish tragic ballads. London, 1781.

OCLC:

13604598