The 1st ed. (1934) contains Mandalay; The frolicksome duke; The knight and the shepherd's daughter; King Estmere; King John and the Abbot of Canterbury; Barbara Allen's cruelty; Fair Rosamond; Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne; The boy and the mantle; The heir of Linne; King Cophetua and the beggar maid; Sir Andrew Barton; May Collin; The blind beggar's daughter of Bednall Green; Thomas the rhymer; Young Beichan; Brave Lord Willoughbey; The Spanish lady's love; The friar of orders gray; Clerk Colvill; Sir Aldingar; Edom O'Gordon; Chevy Chase; Sir Lancelot du Lake; Gil Morrice; The Child of Elle; Child Waters; King Edward IV and the tanner of Tamworth; Sir Patrick Spens; The Earl of Mar's daughter; Edward, Edward; King Leir and his three daughters; Hynd Horn; John Brown's body; Tipperary; The bailiff's daughter of Islington; The three ravens; The gaberlunzie man; The wife of Usher's Well; The lye; The ballad of Reading Gaol.