Author: Gilbert, William Schwenck (1836-1911)
Title: Selected Bab ballads. Written and illustrated by W. S. Gilbert. With an introduction by Hesketh Pearson, and a note on Gilbert as illustrator by Philip James
Description: Oxford: printed for Sir Allen Lane at the University Press 1955. 1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth; elevated motif to the front board. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description: 120. [12] p: ill; 22 cm. Notes: 'Christmas 1955' -- t.p. 'Printed and bound for Sir Allen Lane at the University Press. Oxford. The collotype plates were printed by the Ganymed Press. London. The type is monotype Bell and the paper Grosvenor Chater's Abbey Mills. The line engravings were made by John Swain and Son. Barnet' -- colophon. Subjects: Gilbert. W. S. (William Schwenck) 1836-1911. Ballads. English. English wit and humor. Genre: Ballads - England - 1955. Bookplates - England - 1950-1999. Illustrated.

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