Author: Leigh Egerton
Title: Ballads and Legends of Cheshire
Description: London, Longmans, 1867. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of ballads, short stories, tales, and poems from Cheshire, illustrated throughout. A collection of ballads and legends from across Cheshire, located in northwest England. Comprising of ballads, songs, short stories, legends, and poems, including 'Cheshire Cheese: an Old Song', 'Legend of Constable Sands', 'Old Mab's Curse', and more.Edited by Egerton Leigh, noted nineteenth century author and British landowner. The first edition of this work.Including a vignette title page, engraved frontispiece, and a further thirteen full-page engravings, all by R. Bussey. Collated and complete. Rebacked with refreshed endpapers.  In the publisher's cloth binding, rebacked, with the original cloth laid down. Externally, smart, with some light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. Slight fading and some wear to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. A small smudge and tear to the half title page, otherwise pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: R. Bussey. Very Good .

Keywords: ballads songs tales poetry songs egerton R. Bussey


See more books from our catalog: Poetry