Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland. KING (Richard John)

Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland. Edited by Richard John King, B.A. Exeter College, Oxford.

Title printed in black and red within woodcut architectural border.

First Edition. 8vo. [178 x 109 x 20 mm]. viii, xl, 291, [1], [4] pp. Bound in the original diaper-grain grey cloth, printed paper label, untrimmed edges. (Label chipped at head).

London: [printed by Charles Whittingham for] William Pickering, 1842.

Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. A fine copy from the library of R. G. Erskine Wemyss of Wemyss, and sold by his descendants to John Grant of Edinburgh. Bought in 1968.

Stock no. ebc8324