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Essential editions

• Child, Francis James, ed.; [Kittredge, G. L.], ed.; [Ireland, Catharine Innes], bibl. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston and New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, ©1882-98), vol. III, pp. 154-55. Additions and corrections, vol. V, p. 240. Title: 'The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood'

Primary sources

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• Dixon, James Henry, transcr. [MS of the ballad Robin Hood and the Bold Pedlar (C132) as recited by an aged female in Bermondsey, Surrey. Present whereabouts unknown] ([No later than 1846]), pp. 71-74. Title: 'The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood'
• Dixon, James Henry, ed. Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England, taken down from Oral Recitation, and transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications (Percy Society) (London. 1846), pp. 71-74. Title: 'The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood'Later editions ...
  • [Dixon, James Henry, ed.]; Bell, Robert, ed. Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, taken down from Oral Recitation, and transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications (London, 1857), pp. 71-74. Title: 'The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood'

Popular editions

• Anonymous. The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood ([London]; Cambridge; Brighton, [inter 1828-32]). Title: 'The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood'
• Anonymous. The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood [and] The Trysting Tree ([Such broadside No.] 390) (London, [inter 1863 and 1885]). Title: 'The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood'
• [Williams, Ralph Vaughan], transcr. Robing Wood and Little John. MS MS RVW2/2/79. [1904-04-25]. Ralph Vaughan Williams Manuscript Collection (BL, Add. MS 54190, f. 80v). Title: 'Robing Wood and Little John'. Recorded 1904-04-25. Performed by John Denny; Billericay, Essex, England. First line: 'It is of a pedlar, pedlar bold'. Collector; Ralph Vaughan Williams

Scholarly editions

• Allingham, William, ed. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads (London and Cambridge, 1864), pp. 81-84; notes p. 380. Title: 'The Birth of Robin Hood'Later editions ...
  • Allingham, William, ed. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads (Cambridge, 1865), pp. 81-84; notes p. 380. Title: 'The Birth of Robin Hood'
  • Allingham, William, ed. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads (Golden Treasury Series) (London, 1872), pp. 81-84; notes p. 380. Title: 'The Birth of Robin Hood'
  • Allingham, William, ed. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest Old Ballads (New York, 1886), pp. 81-84; notes p. 380. Title: 'The Birth of Robin Hood'
  • Allingham, William, ed. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads (Golden Treasury Series) (London and New York, 1887), pp. 81-84; notes p. 380. Title: 'The Birth of Robin Hood'
  • Allingham, William, ed. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads (Golden Treasury Series) (London; New York, 1898), pp. 81-84; notes p. 380. Title: 'The Birth of Robin Hood'
• Broadwood, Lucy E. ed. English Traditional Songs and Carols, Collected and Edited, with Annotations and Pianoforte Accompaniments (London and New York, ©1906), pp. 4-5, Appendix, p. 223. Title: 'The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood'Later editions ...
  • Broadwood, Lucy E. ed. English Traditional Songs and Carols, Collected and Edited, with Annotations. With Words and Voice Part (in Old Notation and Tonic Sol-fa) (London and New York, / by Lucy E. Broadwood. London), pp. 4-5, Appendix, p. 223. Title: 'The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood'
• Dixon, James Henry, ed. Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England, taken down from Oral Recitation, and transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications (Percy Society) (London. 1846), pp. 71-74. Title: 'The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood'Later editions ...
  • [Dixon, James Henry, ed.]; Bell, Robert, ed. Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, taken down from Oral Recitation, and transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications (London, 1857), pp. 71-74. Title: 'The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood'
• Williams, R. Vaughan, coll. & transcr.; Broadwood, Lucy Etheldred, annot.; S., C.T., annot.; Kidson, Frank, annot.; Sharp, Cecil James, annot.; Maitland, John Alexander Fuller, annot. 'Song Collected from Essex', Journal of the Folk-Song Society, vol. II (1905-1906), pp. 143-60, pp. 143-60, see p. 156. Title: 'Second version'. Recorded 1906-03-17. by Mr. Verrall of Horsham, Sussex, England. Collector; Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Williams, R. Vaughan, coll. & transcr.; Broadwood, Lucy Etheldred, annot.; S., C.T., annot.; Kidson, Frank, annot.; Sharp, Cecil James, annot.; Maitland, John Alexander Fuller, annot. 'Song Collected from Essex', Journal of the Folk-Song Society, vol. II (1905-1906), pp. 143-60, pp. 143-60, see pp. 155-56. Title: 'Robing Wood and Little John'. Recorded 1904-04-25. Performed by John Denny; Billericay, Essex, England. First line: 'It is of a pedlar, pedlar bold'. Collector; Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Williams, Ralph Vaughan, ed.; Lloyd, A. L., ed. The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Harmondsworth, Middlesex; Baltimore, MD; Ringwood, Victoria, 1959), pp. 88-89, 121-22. Title: 'Robin Hood and the Pedlar'Later editions ...
  • Williams, Ralph Vaughan, ed.; Lloyd, A. L., ed. The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. Reprinted (Harmondsworth, Middlesex; Baltimore, MD; Ringwood, Victoria, 1961), pp. 88-89, 121-22. Title: 'Robin Hood and the Pedlar'
  • Williams, Ralph Vaughan, ed.; Lloyd, A. L., ed. The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. Reprinted (Harmondsworth, Middlesex; Baltimore, MD; Ringwood, Victoria, 1968), pp. 88-89, 121-22. Title: 'Robin Hood and the Pedlar'
  • Williams, Ralph Vaughan, ed.; Lloyd, A. L., ed. The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. Reprinted (Harmondsworth, Middlesex; Baltimore, MD; Ringwood, Victoria, 1969), pp. 88-89, 121-22. Title: 'Robin Hood and the Pedlar'
• Williams, Ralph Vaughan, coll. & transcr.; Palmer, Roy, ed. Folk Songs (London; Melbourne; Toronto 1983), pp. 35-37, p. 188 n. 21. Title: 'Robin Hood and the Pedlar'. Taken down by Vaughan Williams from the singing of a Mr Bell, bricklayer

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• Child, Francis James, ed.; [Kittredge, G. L.], ed.; [Ireland, Catharine Innes], bibl. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston and New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, ©1882-98)

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