Edited hyder rollins (6 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 'Withdrawn for Sale' black ink stamp to front free endpaper.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.

Hardcover. First edition. lxix, 298 pp;, 9 full-page illustrations; quarto, blue cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt. The first detailed study of this popular late 16th century literary miscellany which saw 10 editions published between 1576-1606. Only 9 of these survive and the illustrations here include reproductions of the title pages of all of them. Spine slightly faded, else fine and mostly unopened.…

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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition Thus. 2 vols. 227 & 241 pp.; 8vo; brick red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Volume one facsimile title page; volume two with six facsimiles of title pages, specimens, autographs. "England's Helicon, one of the most beautiful of the Elizabethan poetical miscellanies and most distinguished from the point of view of of authorship, appeared in 1600." Volume one contains the the poems as well as variant readings and misprints, with an index of first lines. Some of the sweetest and most lyrical poems of the Elizabethan age where Shepherds and their Flocks abound, bounding over Arcadian fields. Volume two focuses on the history of various editions re-issued over the years from 17 century to modern, including studies of authors and editorial methods.…

Zustand: Very Good. Two volume rust colored cloth set with gilt lettering. Top edges gilt. A nice clean tight set with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce set. Vol. I [xix] 345; Vol. II [ix] 385 7.25 x 10.5 in each.