Old ballads, from early printed copies of the utmost rarity / edited by J. Payne Collier
1840, First Edition. London : The Percy Society. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers bound in modern 1/2 dark green leather over marble boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 131 pages; Physical desc. : xi, 131 p. ; 20 cm. Subject: Ballads, English - Texts. Reprinted from the "original broadsides, which were published at various dates between the middle of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries...The ballads are reprinted precisely as they stand in the old copies (including the titles and the imprints) with the exception of corrected punctuation" --introduction. Item #181771
Price: €225.00