The Child, Francis James 1825-1896 creator text utu 2014 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 1 (of 5)" by Francis James Child is a scholarly anthology published between 1882-1898. This groundbreaking collection presents 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, documenting tales of romance, supernatural encounters, outlaw adventures, and historical events. Child meticulously classified variants of each ballad, creating the definitive scholarly edition that transformed ballad study. From medieval manuscripts like "Judas" to Robin Hood legends, these darker narratives explore forbidden love, family conflict, treachery, and folk heroes—preserving centuries of oral tradition in a monumental work that remains the cornerstone of ballad scholarship. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Ballads Release date is 2014-02-20 Produced by Simon Gardner, Katherine Ward, Alicia Williams, David T. Jones and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Original publication data not identified Ballads, English -- England -- Texts Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts PR Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44969 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44969 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134031.0 44969