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  Edited by Denes Agay
  Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1975
  
  
• Maver's Collection of Genuine Scottish Melodies
  Edited by George Alexander, Esq.
  Robert Maver, Glasgow (circa 1900)
  
  
• One Hundred Songs of England
  Edited by Granville Bantock
  Oliver Ditson Company, New York, 1914
  
  
• The Joan Baez Songbook
  Arrangements by Elie Siegmeister
  AMSCO Publications, New York, 1964
  
  
• English Folk-Songs
  Collected and Aranged by Wm. Alexr. Barrett
  Novello, Ewer & Co. London, 1891
  
  
• Scottish Songs
  Bayley and Ferguson, Limited
  London and Glasgow, circa 1920
  
  
• The Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs
  Edited by Margaret Bradford Boni
  Simon and Shuster, New York, 1952
  
  
• English Traditional Songs and Carols
  Lucy E. Broadwood
  Boosey and Co. London and New York, 1908
  
  
• English County Songs
  Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. FUller Maitland
  J. B. Cramer and Co. Ltd. London, 1893
  
  
• The Ballad as Song
  Bertrand Harris Bronson
  University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1969
  
  
• The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time
  W. Chappell
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• The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
  Edited by Francis J. Child
  (Five Volumes)
  Dover Publications, New York, 1965
  (First published in 1884-1898)
  
  
• Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
  Edited by William Cole
  Doubleday and Company, Inc. Garden City, New York, 1961
  
  
• A Treasury of Old Scots Songs
  Edited and Arranged by G. Y. Cheyne and M.R. Cheyne
  Taigh Na Teud (Harpspring House)
  Isle of Skye, Scotland, 1995
  
  
• The Civil War Songbook
  Complete Original Sheet Music for 37 Songs
  Selected and Edited by Richard Crawford
  Dover Publications, New York, 1977
  
  
• Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia
  by Helen Creighton
  Dover Publications, New York
  
  
• The Songs of Charles Dibdin
  G. H. Davidson
  How and Parsons, London, 1842.
  
  
• The Saltire Scottish Song Book
  Cedric Thorpe Davie and George C. McVicar
  The Hardie Press, Edinburgh, 1991
  
  
• Fifty Sailors' Songs or "Chanties"
  Words by Frederick J. Davis, R.N.R.
  Boosey & Co. Ltd.
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• The Songs of Thomas D'Urfey
  Selected and Edited by Cyrus Lawrence Day
  Harvard University Press
  Cambridge, MA 1933
  
  
• Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
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• Vocal Melodies of Scotland
  Finlay Dun and John Thompson
  Publisher Unknown (Title page is missing) possibly circa 1900
  Finlay Dun, was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott. He was a music teacher in Edinburgh. The citations I found for his work are generally 1835-1860.
  
  
• The National Music of America and Its Sources
  Louis C. Elson
  L.C. Page and Company, Boston, 1900
  
  
• The Songs of Scotland, Adapted to their Appropriate Melodies
  By George Farquhar Graham
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• Folk-Songs, Chanteys and Singing Games
  Edited by Charles H. Farnsworth and Cecil J. Sharp
  The H. W. Gray Company, New York, 1909
  
  
• The Music That Washington Knew
  With Historical Sketch by William Arms Fisher
  Oliver Ditson Company, Inc., Chicago, 1941
  
  
• Dear Harp of My Country
  The Irish Melodies of Thomas Moore
  James W. Flannery
  J. S. Sanders and Company, Nashville, 1997
  (Book with two CDs)
  
  
• Songs of Scotland
  The Royal Edition, Volume II
  Edited by Myles B. Foster
  Boosey & Co., London and New York, 1877
  
  
• Golden Encyclopedia of Folk Music
  Hal Leonard Publishing Corp. Milwaukee, WI
  [Not Dated]
  
  
• Songs of the Sailor
  Compiled and edited by Glenn Grasso
  Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT, 1998
  
  
• Scottish Orpheus
  Adam Hamilton
  Patterson, Sons & Co. Ltd., Edinburgh & London, circa 1921
  (There is an inscription dated Jan. 26, 1921 on the cover page)
  
  
• Songs of England
  The Royal Edition
  Volumes I and II
  J. L. Hatton and Eaton Fanning
  Boosey & Co., London and New York, circa 1879
  
  
• Songs of Ireland
  The Royal Edition
  J. L. Hatton and J. L. Molloy
  Boosey & Co., London and New York, circa 1879
  (Fourth Edition)
  
  
• The Songs of Percy French
  Selected and Edited by James N. Healy
  Cork, Ossian Publications, 1996
  Originally pubished as The First Book of Ballads (1955)
  and The Second Book of Ballads (1962)
  
  
• Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea
  by James N. Healy
  Mercier Press, Dublin and Cork, 1967
  
  
• Music For Everyone: The World's Best Collection
  of Folk Songs and Ballads of All Nations
  Compiled and Arranged by Herbert Haufrecht,
  1963 by Remick Music Corporation
  New York, New York
  
  
• Seventy Scottish Songs
  Helen Hopekirk
  Dover Publications, New York, 1992
  (First published in 1905)
  
  
• The Robert Burns Songbook, Vol. I
  By Serge Hovey
  Mel Bay Publications, Pacific, MO, 1997
  
  
• Shanties from the Seven Seas
  Stan Hugill
  Dover Publications, New York, 1987
  (First published in 1961)
  
  
• Sam Henry's Songs of the People
  Edited by Gale Huntington
  The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 1990
  
  
• Songs the Whaleman Sang
  By Gale Huntington
  Barre Publishers, Barre, MA 1964
  
  
• Burl Ives Irish Songs
  Burl Ives
  Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1955
  
  
• The Burl Ives Song Book
  Burl Ives
  Ballantine Books, New York, 1953
  
  
• Songs of America and Homeland
  Charles W. Johnson
  Silver, Burdett & Company
  New York, 1905
  
  
• The Scots Musical Museum
  James Johnson
  Two Volumes, 1962 reprint of the 1853 edition
  Folklore Associates, Hatboro, PA
  
  
• A Jacobite Legacy: From Bonnie Dundee to Bonnie Prince Charlie
  Compiled and written by Peter Kay
  Soar Valley Music, UK, 1995
  
  
• Folksongs of Britain and Ireland
  Edited by Peter Kennedy
  Oak Publications, New York, 1975
  
  
• American Balladry From British Broadsides
  By G. Malcolm Laws, Jr.
  The American Folklore Society, Philadelphia, 1957
  
  
• Popular Irish Songs
  Edited by Florence Leniston
  Dover Publications, New York, 1992
  (with public domain sheet music)
  
  
• Folk Songs of Old New England
  by Eloise Hubbard Linscott
  Dover Publications, New York, 1993
  (First published in 1939)
  
  
• Songs and Ballads of Ireland
  John Loesberg
  Ossian Publications Ltd. Cork, Ireland
  1993
  
  
• Traditional Folksongs and Ballads of Scotland
  Volume I
  John Loesberg
  Ossian Publications, New Hampshire, 1994
  
  
• American Ballads and Folk Songs
  By John A. and Alan Lomax.
  Dover Publications, New York, 1994
  (First published in 1934)
  
  
• Scottish Ballads
  Edited by Emily Lyle
  Barnes and Noble, New York, 1995
  
  
• Colonial and Revolution Songbook
  Keith and Rusty McNeil
  WEM Records, Riverside, CA
  1996
  
  
• Southern Mountain Folksongs
  Compiled and Edited by W. K. McNeil
  August House Publishers, Little Rock, AK
  1993
  
  
• The New Scottish Song Book
  George McPhee, George C. McVicar, John Rankin, Stuart M. Robertson
  The Hardie Press, Edinburgh, 1994
  (And Mel Bay)
  
  
• Our National Songs
  A Collection of One Hundred and Eighty Songs
  of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
  Edited by Alfred H. Miles
  Hutchinson & Co., London, circa 1890
  (There is an inscription on the title page: "Lillie Bostock [I can't quite read the next two lines, it appears to be an address Lough St, Northcote maybe] April 1890")
  
  
• The Scottish Students' Songbook
  Colin Miller
  Published by Bayley and Ferguson, London, 1891
  For the Scottish Students' Song Book Committee
  
  
• Songs from The Williamsburg Theatre
  by John W. Molnar
  Colonial Williamsburg
  Williamsburg, VA 1974
  (Thank you Mary Tyson!)
  
  
• The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles
  Bramhall Houes
  New York, 1960
  Note: Niles is know to have retouched or written several of the ballads in his book and is therefore not considered a reliable or authentic source.
  
  
• Songs That Made History
  H. E. Piggot
  J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd.
  London, 1937
  
  
• Songs of Scotland
  The Royal Edition, Volume I
  J. Pittman and Colin Brown
  Boosey & Co., London and New York, 1877
  
  
• The American Song Treasury
  Theodore Ralph
  Dover Publications, New York, 1986
  (First published in 1964)
  
  
• The Songs of Wales
  The Royal Edition
  Edited by Brinley Richards
  Boosey & Co, London, 1879
  (Fourth Edition)
  
  
• Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians
  As Sung by Jean Ritchie
  The University Press of Kentucky, 1995
  (published by Oak Publications, 1965)
  
  
• American Songbag
  By Carl Sandburg and Garrison Keillor
  Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York, 1990
  (First published 1927)
  
  
• The Ballad of America
  John Anthony Scott
  Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1967
  
  
• One Hundred English Folksongs
  Edited by Cecil J. Sharp
  Oliver Ditson Company, Boston 1916
  (The link above is to the reprint by Dover Publications, 1975)
  
  
• English Country Folk Songs
  Edited by Cecil J. Sharp
  Novello and Company Limited, London, reprint 1961
  Originally published in five volumes, 1908 - 1912
  
  
• English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians
  Collected by Cecil Sharp, Edited by Maud Karpeles
  Oxford University Press, London
  Reprint 1952 and 1960
  (First published in 1917)
  
  
• Nursery Songs from the Appalachian Mountains
  Arranged by Cecil Sharp
  Novello & Co. Ltd., London
  1921
  
  
• A Selection of Collected Folk Songs
  Volume 1
  Arranged by Cecil J. Sharp and R. Vaughan Williams
  Novello & Co. Ltd., London
  1908
  
  
• A Selection of some Less Known Folk Songs
  Volume 2
  Arranged by Cecil J. Sharp and R. Vaughan Williams
  Compiled by Cyril Winn
  Arrangements are by Novello & Co. Ltd., London, 1908-1922
  (Reprint edition not dated)
  
  
• American Sea Songs and Chanties from the Days of Iron Men and Wooden Ships
  Edited by Frank Shay
  W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., New York, 1948
  Originally published in 1924
  
  
• Folksingers Wordbook
  Compiled and Edited by Fred and Irwin Silber
  Oak Publications, New York 1973
  
  
• Ballads and Songs of the Civil War
  by Jerry Silverman
  Mel Bay Publications, Pacific, MO, 1993
  
  
• Songs of the British Isles
  by Jerry Silverman
  Mel Bay Publications, Pacific, MO, 1993
  
  
• Songs of England
  Jerry Silverman
  Mel Bay Publications
  Missouri, 1991
  
  
• Songs of Ireland
  Jerry Silverman
  Mel Bay Publications
  Missouri, 1991
  
  
• Ancient and Modern Songs of Ireland for Piano
  by Gail Smith
  Mel Bay Publications
  Missouri, 1996
  
  
• Scottish Songs
  Edited by Alfred W. Tomlyn
  Scotpres, Brucetown Mills, WVA, 1988
  
  
• The World's Best Music: Famous Songs and Those Who Made Them
  Volumes I-4 (Vocals)
  The University Society, New York, 1902
  
  
• Songs from a Colonial Tavern
  as sung by Tayler Vrooman
  Colonial Williamsburg
  Williamsburg, VA 1964
  
  
• Sea Songs and Shanties
  Collected by Captain W. B. Whall
  Reprint of 1974 by
  Brown, Son & Ferguson, LTd. Publishers, Glasgow
  First edition published 1910
  
  
• The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
  Edited by Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L. Lloyd
  Penguin Books, Baltimore, MD 1968
  Originally published 1959
  
  
• The Fireside Book of Children's Songs
  Collected and Edited by Marie Winn
  Simon and Shuster, New York, 1966
  (Thank you Mary Tyson!)