List of the Child Ballads

Two black birds in a leafless tree above a grassy landscape with a cloudy sky and dark mountains in the background
"The Three Ravens", an Arthur Rackham illustration of Child Ballad 26.
A woman sits upright in a four-poster bed listening to a short creature in red clothing standing on a chair at the foot of the bed
"‘O waken, waken, Burd Isbel", from "Young Beichan", Child Ballad 53.

The Child Ballads is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child and originally published in ten volumes between 1882 and 1898 under the title The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.[1][2]

  1. ^ Child, Francis James (1890). The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  2. ^ Fumerton, Patricia; Guerrini, Anita; McAbee, Kris (2010). Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500–1800. Ashgate Publishing. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-7546-6248-8.