Author: NICHOLS, BEVERLEY. (Selected and with and Introduction by).
Title: A Book Of Old Ballads. Illustrations by H.M. Brock.
Description: First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. xl, 280; pictorial endpapers, coloured frontispiece, 15 other full page coloured plates, numerous b/w. text illustrations, appendix, original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board, stamped decoration to front board, top edge gilt others uncut, corners a little bumped, covers a little marked, still a good tight copy. London; Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.; 1934. "The ballads, even the lightest and blossoming of them, were deep-rooted in the soil of English history. How different from anything that we possess to-day! Great causes do not lead men to song, nowdays they lead them to write letters to newspapers" These poems are the very essence of the British spirit.
Keywords: Ballards Poems English British Literature
Title: A Book Of Old Ballads. Illustrations by H.M. Brock.
Description: First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. xl, 280; pictorial endpapers, coloured frontispiece, 15 other full page coloured plates, numerous b/w. text illustrations, appendix, original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board, stamped decoration to front board, top edge gilt others uncut, corners a little bumped, covers a little marked, still a good tight copy. London; Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.; 1934. "The ballads, even the lightest and blossoming of them, were deep-rooted in the soil of English history. How different from anything that we possess to-day! Great causes do not lead men to song, nowdays they lead them to write letters to newspapers" These poems are the very essence of the British spirit.
Keywords: Ballards Poems English British Literature
Price: AUD 125.00 = appr. US$ 86.48 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 104845
- Book number: 104845