BIBLIOGRAPHY.
The three following works will afford help in respect to this Text—
The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time &c. By W. Chappell, F.S.A. 2 Vols. [1855–59] 8vo. [For the times especially.]
Philobiblon Society. Ancient Ballads and Broadsides published in England in the Sixteenth Century, chiefly in the earlier years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Reprinted from the unique original copies, mostly in Black Letter, preserved in the Library of Henry Huth, Esq. London, 1867.
A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554–1640 A.D. Ed. by E. Arber, F.S.A. 4 Vols. 1875–1877.
Richard Jones was made free of the Stationers' Company, or, as it is entered in the Register, admitted "brother of this howse," 7th August 1564. Transcript, i. 278.
In the summer of 1566, occurs the following entry—
| 1. | R. Jonnes | Recevyd of Rychard Jones for his lycense for prynting of a boke of very pleasaunte Sonettes and storyes in myter, by Clament Robynson. [No sum as fee stated.] Trans. i. 313. |
Not any portion of this First edition has, as yet, been verified. The fragment at pp. 15-16 may or may not belong to it.
The following ballads were not in this First Edition—
(a) Because the ballads themselves are registered at a later date.
| In the years | |
| 22 July 1566–1567. | A fayne wolde I have a go[o]dly thynge to shewe vnto my ladye. [see p. 50.] Trans. i. 340. |
| 22 July 1567-1568. | A farewell to, Alas I lover you ouer well &c. [See pp. 53 and 62.] Trans. i. 362. (This however may not have been the first appearance of this burden.) |
| 22 July 1568-1569. | The Story of ij faythful Lovers &c. [See pp. 30 and 46.] Trans. i. 386. |
| 7 Nov. 1576. | G. Mannington's Woefull ballade. [See p. 57.] Trans. ii. 324. |
