George Barnett Smith [editor] - Illustrated British Ballads Old and New

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. Leather. A smartly bound complete two volume set of this scarce collection of illustrated British ballads. Complete in two volumes. Scarce work. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-three full-page images and many in-text figures. Volume two is illustrated with sixteen full-page images and many in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of ballads from British writers, with titles including: The Armada, The Bonnie Bairns, Cumnor Hall, Edwin and Emma, King Arthur's Death, The Lament of the Border Widow, Molly Carew, Robin Goodfellow, Sweet William's Ghost, The Whitehorse of Wharfedale, and many others. Selected and edited by George Barnett Smith, an English author and journalist. Bound in half red crushed morocco with red cloth boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout with minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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