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Title: The Merry Ballads of Olden of the Olden Time Illustrated in Pictures & Rhyme
Description: London, F. Warne and Co, 1880. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated collection of popular ballads for children, including 'Tom Thumb' and 'Sir Richard Whittington&apos. First edition. A beautifully illustrated Victorian children's book containing a series of ballads in the form of rhymes. With titles including 'Sir Francis Drake', 'Robin the Conjurer' and 'The Child Born to be a King&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding with decorative gilt to the front board. With an illustrated front endpaper, frontispiece, twenty-three full page illustrations in colour, and numerous vignettes throughout. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library. In the original blue cloth with decorative gilt. Externally, generally smart. With rubbing to the extremities, resulting in loss of cloth to the spine head and tail. Spine is sunned. Marks to the boards. Internally, generally firmly bound with the exception of the front free endpaper, which is disbound but present. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot. With crayon and pencil marks to the verso front free endpaper. Good . Ill.: Emrick and Binger. Good .

Keywords: Children's Literature Rhymes Illustrated Rhymes Emrick and Binger


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