A Collection of Old Ballads. Corrected from the best and most Ancient Copies Extant. With Introductions Historical, Critical or Humorous
A Collection of Old Ballads. Corrected from the best and most Ancient Copies Extant. With Introductions Historical, Critical or Humorous
A Collection of Old Ballads. Corrected from the best and most Ancient Copies Extant. With Introductions Historical, Critical or Humorous

INVENTORY #109093

A Collection of Old Ballads. Corrected from the best and most Ancient Copies Extant. With Introductions Historical, Critical or Humorous

PHILIPS, Ambrose (comp.)

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Ballads of merry old England tell the stories of such characters as the Fair Rosamond, St. George and the Dragon, King Alfred and the Shepherd, Robin Hood, Jane Shore, etc. Each is introduced by explanatory commentary.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: n/a
  • Edition: Late 19th century reprint, originally printed for J. Roberts, 1723
  • Date Published: nd.
  • Place Published: n/a
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Very good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    3 books in one volume: viii, [4], 287, [6], xi, [6], 266, [6], xii, [7], 263 p. 18 cm. 45 copper plates. Half leather signed binding by Fazakerley of Liverpool, a firm founded by Thomas Fazakerley in 1835. Binding has wear to extremities, spotting on pages 143 to 176 in third section.

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