LONDON
GRANT RICHARDS
48 LEICESTER SQUARE
1902
Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, (late) Printers to Her Majesty
'English Songs and Ballads' must not be regarded as 'a choice,'[vii]but simply as a bringing together of poetical pieces which are,presumably, well known to the average person,—that is to say, thecompiler has endeavoured to illustrate the general taste rather thanhis own preference.