Author:Joseph Ritson

Joseph Ritson
(1752–1803)

Joseph Ritson

Works

• The Stockton Jubilee, or Shakespeare in all his Glory (1781)
• Observations on the three first volumes of the "History of English Poetry" (1782)
• Remarks Critical and Illustrative on the Text of the last Edition of Shakespeare (1783)
• The Spartan Manual or Tablet of Morality (1785)
• The Quip Modest (1788)
• The Office of Constable (1791)
• The Jurisdiction of the Court Leet (1791)
• Cursory Criticisms on the Edition of Shakspeare Published by Edmond Malone (1792) EEBO
• An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food as a Moral Duty (1802) (transcription project)
• Bibliographia Poetica: a Catalogue of English Poets of the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centurys, with a Short Account of their Works (1802)
• The Office of Bailiff of a Liberty (1811)
• The Caledonian Muse: a Chronological Selection of Scottish Poetry from the earliest times (1821).
• The Life of King Arthur (1825)
• Memoirs of the Celts or Gauls (1827)
• Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots (1828), in 2 vols.
• Fairy Tales, now first collected, to which are prefixed two dissertations (1) On Pygmies, (2) On Fairies, by Joseph Ritson, esq. (1831)

As editor

• Gammer Gurton's Garland, or the Nursery Parnassus (1783)
• Select Collection of English Songs (1783), in 3 vols.
• Bishopric Garland, or Durham Minstrel (1784)
• Yorkshire Garland (1788)
• Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry from Authentic Manuscripts and old printed Copies adorned with [fifteen] Cuts’ by Thomas and John Bewick (1791)
• Ancient Songs from the time of King Henry the Third to the Revolution (1792), in 2 vols.
• The North Country Chorister (1792)
• The Northumbrian Garland, or Newcastle Nightingale (1793)
• English Anthology (1793–1794), in 3 vols.
• Scottish Song with the genuine Music (1794), in 2 vols.
• Poems, written anno-MCCCLII (1795), by Laurence Minot external scan
• Robin Hood, a Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads now extant relating to that celebrated English Outlaw (1795), in 2 vols.
• Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës (1802), in 3 vols.

Works about Ritson

• "Ritson, Joseph," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Ritson, Joseph," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Ritson, Joseph," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)