The Book of Ballads

GAULTIER, Bon [i.e. AYTOUN, William Edmondstoune. MARTIN, Theodore]

Verlag: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1870

Beschreibung

[1], v, [3], 256pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and illustrations by Doyle, Leech and Crowquill. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco. Marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Moderate wear to spine and very slight bumping to corners. Heavy spotting to front and rear end-papers, but none to text. Contemporary ink inscription R. D. Hamilton (?) to FEP. An eleventh edition of the hugely popular Bon Gaultier ballads, compiled under pseudonym by Scottish poets William Edmonstoune Ayton (1813-1865) and Sir Theodore Martin (1816-1909). First published in magazines in 1845, this copy is beautifully illustrated by Richard Doyle (1824-1883), John Leech (1817-1864) and Alfred Crowquill (i.e. Alfred Henry Forrester)(1804-1872). Doyle, the artist of the first cover of Punch magazine, was a longtime collaborator of Leech, who in turn enjoyed fame as the first illustrator of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (London, 1843). Divided into 'Spanish', 'American', and 'Miscellaneous', the collection of parodied ballads pokes fun at romantic, embellished verse. Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ29212

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Book of Ballads

Verlag: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1870

Einband: Softcover

Auflage: Eleventh edition.