Llanerch Press

Dr Keith Norman MacDonald was an enthusiast and a collector, but he was not a careful editor and he sent his colection of music to his printers in Leipzig with most of the items in the form in which thay had been given to him. The result is that the Gesto Collection contains a mixture of items, traditional gaelic songs alongside military marches, and so on.
The most important item would seem to be the 68 page appendix which shows evidence of careful editing by Frances Tolmie who lived on Skye a.......

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A facsimile reprint of a collection of ballads first published as broadsheets by Thomas Ford of Chesterfield collated with an introduction by Roy Palmer.

This collection of sheets was first published by Thomas Ford of Chesterfield in the 1830's. Ford's collection provides an intriguing, and possibly unique, glimpse into the songs that the people of Chesterfield were buying and singing at that time. Thomas Ford worked in Chesterfield as a printer, bookseller and stationer. Ford's stock book cont.......

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Published in 1891 in an edition of only 200 copies, Frank Kidson's volume of Traditional Tunes assured his place in history - along with Lucy Broadwood, Sabine Baring Gould, and William Barret - as one of the pioneers of song collection from the English oral tradition whose independent efforts anticipated both the foundation of the Folk Song Society and the development of the wider 'folk' movement. Lucy Broadwood said of Kidson's book: 'Its appearance marks an important event in the history of .......

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