The ballad printer was too wise a business man to print on the sheet _only_ folk-songs. He printed a popular lyric side by side with an old traditional song, for the sheet had room for at least two sets of verses, and he, by this means, catered for two classes of customers. BIBLIOGRAPHY The following works have each a bearing upon English Folk-Song and Folk-Music, and the student will find a reference to them of great help in obtaining a full knowledge of the subject. Many others might have been named, for it is difficult, if not impossible, to fix a limit for the bibliography of a particular line of study. COLLECTION OF BALLADS AND SONGS, WITHOUT MUSIC ASHTON, JOHN. A Century of Ballads. Collected, edited, and illustrated in facsimile by ——. 1887. —— Modern Street Ballads. 1888. —— Real Sailor Songs. BALLAD SOCIETY, THE. Published between 1868 and 1881 many volumes of ballads which were reprinted from the black letter broadsides in the British Museum and elsewhere. BALLADS, THE ROXBURGHE. A Book of Roxburghe Ballads. Edited by J. Payne Collier. 1847. —— Edited by Charles Hindley. 2 vols. 1874. (These two publications are merely selections from the collection.) BELL, JOHN. Rhymes of Northern Bards; being a curious collection of old and new songs and poems peculiar to the counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham. 1812. BELL, ROBERT. Early Ballads illustrative of History, Tradition, and Custom. Edited by ——. 1856. —— Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England. Edited by ——. 1857. (Of these two most useful volumes many later editions have been published. They were really compiled and annotated by John Henry Dixon, and originally appeared in 1846, with some slight differences, as one of the publications of the Percy Society. As they formed one of the series of “Bell’s English Poets,” the general editor’s name appeared instead of the real compiler’s. Other volumes of the Percy Society’s publications have some interest for the inquirer into English folk-song.) CHILD, F. J. English and Scottish Ballads. Selected and edited by ——. 8 vols. 1857-1859. (This is the original American edition. A later edition was published in 1861, and finally a large quarto edition with much new matter was begun in 1882, and completed in 1898 in 10 parts. A condensed edition of Child’s ballads was issued in 1904.) CLARK, ANDREW. The Shirburn Ballads, 1585-1616. Reprinted from the MS. by ——. 1907.