Edited by hyder e rollins (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edtion. First American edition. The book was first published in the UK by the Cambridge University Press in 1922. Twenty-six black and white illustrations of broadside ballads in text. Seventeen-page preface by the editor Hyder E. Rollins. ***Very good in reddish-brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Please note that this is an ex-library copy. 'Withdrawn for Sale' black ink stamp to front free endpaper. Lincolnshire County Library ink stamp and small ink number to title-page. White classification number to spine. No other library markings. Boards slightly rubbed and surface marked. No other inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean. Spine tight. No dustwrapper. ***xxxvi prelim-pages including preface, list of ballads and illustrations plus 491 pages including glossarial index, first lines and tunes to rear. 218 mm x 148 mm. ***Eighty black-letter broadside ballards including: The Famous Rat-Catcher (1615); The Cucking of a Scold ({1615); This Maid Would Give Ten Shillings for a Kiss (1615); Sir Walter Raleigh's Lamentation; Murther Unmasked, or Barneveld's Base Conspiracy (1619); New Out For East India (1624); A New Spanish Tragedy, or More Strange News from the Narrow Seas (1695). ***First impression of the first US edition. Of interest to literary scholars and social historians. Uncommon in the UK. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good in blue cloth with a paper spine label. 1st Printing Thus. 245pp 8vo. Poetry.

First Edition. Illustrations Binding a little marked and worn and free end-papers browned, but a nice copy; small armorial bookplate Original green cloth-backed grey boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt.