Author: TOMSON, Graham R. ed.
Title: Ballads of the North Countrie.
Description: London, Walter Scott, 1888. Hardcover. Top edges gilt. Gilt to decorated cover and spine. Ex-library, fraying to ends of spine, some wear to inside hinges, contents pages partly loose, a touch of flecking to front cover. States in the intro that "...the Editor has chiefly relied on the admirable collection of Professor Child". Also sourced from The Border Minstrelsy (4th ed., 1810), Motherwell's Minstrelsy (Glasgow, 1827), Aytoun's Ballads of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1859), Pinkerton's Select Scottish Ballads (London, 1783) etc. Scarce. xxx, 442pp.

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