In 1847 John Payne Collier (1789–1883) printed A Book of Roxburghe Ballads.
It consisted of 1,341 broadside ballads from the seventeenth century, mostly English, originally collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer (1661–1724), later collected by John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe.
He used ancient paper and wrote on the pages with a rare ink which has proved to be very enduring.
The library of the University of Iowa has an almost complete collection of Roxburghe Club publications.
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