From 1932, this is English and Scottish Popular Ballads, by Francis James Child, as published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. Featuring the famous Child Ballads, such as Lord Ingram, Gypsy Laddy, The Battle of Otterburn, several ballads about Robin Hood, The Baffled Knight, etc. Bound in dark red cloth, gilt titles. 729 pages, double column format. An owner name, James Jackson Mullaney.

Francis James Child (February 1, 1825 – September 11, 1896) was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. Child was Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University, where he produced influential editions of English poetry. In 1876 he was named Harvard's first Professor of English, a position which allowed him to focus on academic research. It was during this time that he began work on the Child Ballads.

The Child Ballads were published in five volumes between 1882 and 1898. While Child was primarily a literary scholar with little interest in the music of the ballads, his work became a major contribution to the study of English-language folk music.