Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0900002204. Seller Inventory # 9182959
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0900002204. Seller Inventory # 8992905
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Edition of 1000 copies of which 700 were for sale. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm, 160 pp, ills, facs, map. From the preface: "I started collecting broadside ballads many years ago when I saw a batch of them in an antiquarian bookshop and found that they were good traditional country songs like 'Fare well He', 'Bedlam City', 'Banks of Invarary', and 'Young Riley'. They were narrow slips, printed on old rough tinted paper, with quaint woodcuts, and the publisher was John Pitts, of Seven Dials, London. From that time onwards I read widely on the subject and collected broadsides and chapbooks wherever I could find them and I soon discovered that the topical ballads were also full of interest. The Charles Hindley books about James Catnach fired me with enthusiasm, but Catnach had all the attention and I could not help regretting that nobody had written about John Pitts, who seemed a much more interesting printer, although less flamboyant than Catnach. Over the years I searched for any scraps of information about Pitts, and it became something of a passion to find sufficient material for a short study which would do for Pitts what Hindley had done for Catnach There are still many details missing, and probably some things we shall never know, but I have set down all I could discover on the life and times of the elusive John Pitts. " Name and date on front free endpaper, otherwise Very Good. Seller Inventory # ABE-21087
Seller: Leabeck Books, Steventon, OXON, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1970. First edition of 1600 copies of which 700 were for sale. 160p. Over 40 illustrations, including many facsimiles. Very good internally. Red cloth boards and spine are faded towards the head. Seller Inventory # LBTS0714
Seller: Godley Books, Hyde, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, black/gold motif and lettering and no bumping to corners. Glassine dust jacket in very good condition. 160pp. The story of printer of ballads, John Pitts and his chief competitor James Catnatch in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who printed traditional ballads. Also covers similar activites both before their time and afterwards. Illustrated. Limited Edition of 1600 copies. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 10 x 6.25 inches. Seller Inventory # 029441
Quantity: 1 available