The Robin Hood Garlands and Ballads, with the tale of The Lytell Geste: A Collection of all the Poems, Songs and Ballads Relating to This Celebrated Yeoman. Two Volumes.

Gutch, John Matthew, editor; woodcuts by F W Fairholt.

Published by London; John Russell Smith, Soho Square, and Joseph Lilly, Covent Garden; ., 1850

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Condition Very Good Plus: clean, solid, and straight; professional repair at some point, leather on leather. With the small bookplates of Richard Cutting, St. Georges Square, N.W. Narrow lines of discoloration on the outer corners of the free front and rear endpapers, where they touch the corner leathers on boards. Very scarce. Hardcovers in Leather, half calf with marbled sides, boards 20.5 cm, Vol. 1: [iii]-viii, xxxviii, [2], 391, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [2], vii, [1], xxii, [2], 447, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates. A Collection of all the Poems, Songs and Ballads Relating to This Celebrated Yeoman; in which is prefixed his history an character, deduced from Documents hitherto unrevised. Appendix contains 16 melody lines. Includes "Dissertation upon the Morris dance and Maid Marian [by W. Hone]": v. 1, p. [301]- 328; "Dissertation on the ancient English Morris dance, by Francis Douce": v. 1, p. 329-365; Biographical notice of Joseph Ritson [with portrait]: v. 2, p. [i]-xxii; Musical illustrations of the Robin Hood ballads, by E.F. Rimbault: v. 2, p. [431]-447. etc, . Seller Inventory # 663403

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Title: The Robin Hood Garlands and Ballads, with ...

Publisher: London; John Russell Smith, Soho Square, and Joseph Lilly, Covent Garden; .

Publication Date: 1850

Binding: Hardcover

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