Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber's Notes
Archaic, dialect and inconsistent spellings and hyphenation have been retained as in the original. Minor corrections to format and punctuation together with regularisation of poetry line numbering have been made without comment. Any other changes to the text have been listed at the end of the book.
Notes with reference to ballad line numbers are presented at the end of each ballad and the presence of a note is indicated by links in the text.