The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 5
The
English and Scottish
Popular Ballads
Edited by
Francis James Child
Part V
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Boston
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
London: Henry Stevens & Son, 115 St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross
One Thousand Copies Printed.
No. 233
Copyright, 1888, by F. J. Child.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.
Rev. Professor Skeat has done me the great service of collating Wynken de Worde's text of The Gest of Robin Hood, the manuscript of Robin Hood and the Monk and of Robin Hood and the Potter, and all the Robin Hood broadsides in the Pepys collection. Mr Macmath has collated the fragments of the earlier copy of The Gest which are preserved in the Advocates' Library, and, as always, has been most ready to respond to every call for aid. I would also gratefully acknowledge assistance received from Mr W. Aldis Wright, of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Rev. Edmund Venables, Precentor of Lincoln; Dr Furnivall; and, in America, from Mr W. W. Newell, Miss Perine and Mrs Dulany.
F. J. C.
February, 1888.