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PUBLISHER: Mercat Press

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781841830124

RRP: £35.00

PAGES: 680

PUBLICATION DATE:
November 1, 2002

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The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection

E.B. Lyle

The aim of this collection is to make available the folk songs collected by Gavin Greig and the Reverend James B. Duncan in the first two decades of the 20th century. With the publication of Volume 8, the largest and most important manuscript collection of Scottish ballads and folk songs is now available in its entirety.

E.B. Lyle

Gavin Greig was schoolmaster at Whitehill, New Deer. Rev. James Bruce Duncan, United Free Chruch minister at Lynkirk.

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