Bronson, Bertrand. The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. With Their texts, According to the Extant Records of Great Britain and America. Princeton 1962-1972 Hardcover, two with dj, two without dj. Married set. Vol 3 ex-lib, stamps on one fore-edge, on flyleaves, title page. No pockets. Others have light wear to text-block and dj Quarto 465, 565, 496, 576pp
Vol 1 Third printing so stated 1971 in dj Ballads 1 to 53
Vol 2 1962, no dj Ballads 54 to 113
Vol 3 1966 no dj ex-lib. Ballads 114 to 243
Vol 4 1972 in dj Ballads 245-299
"This is the musical counterpart to the famous Francis James Child collection of English and Scottish ballads from the 13th to the 19th centuries. Professor Child's canon established the texts; Professor Bronson’s work provides both tunes and texts.
Continuing the monumental work begun in Volume I, Bertrand Bronson presents in Volume 2 the words and music for Child Ballads 54 through 113. The texts are those established in the famous Child canon of English and Scottish ballads. To them, Mr. Bronson has added more than a thousand variant tunes grouped to show their melodic kinship, and the characteristic variations developed in the course of traditional singing and oral transmission.
With volume, 4 incorporating Ballads 244-305, Bertrand Harris Bronson completes his epic task of providing the musical counterpart to Francis James Child's collection of English and Scottish ballads. As in the previous volumes, the texts are linked with their proper traditional tunes, systematically ordered and grouped to show melodic kinship and characteristic variations developed during the course of oral transmission."