Old ballads (6 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good Minus. Small soft cover. Light signs of age and wear. We ship fast and combine shipping--email us for a quote.

Zustand: Very Good. Books on Books. 9 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13.5 x 21 cms. Category: Books on Books; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 3 volume set. Hardcover bound in red cloth with gold lettering. All 3 vol have toning, particularly to spines, bumped corners, and edgewear all around. All 3 bindings tight and square. Title pages dated 1887; no copyright pages. Vol. I 460 pages; Vol. II 397 pages; Vol. III 423 pages. All pages uniformly toned but clean of marks and tears. Overall a very good set. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. …

Second edition. In four volumes. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and marked, joints starting, spines dulled. Early ink-stamps with initials 'J. F.' and recent bookplates of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEPs, scattered spotting. The revised and considerably enlarged edition of an anthology of English ballads, edited by bookseller Thomas Evans (1742-1784), and intended as a 'supplement to Percy's Reliques, and Ellis's Specimens of Antient Poetry'. The first edition, in two volumes, appeared in 1777. From the recently dispersed library of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford. ESTC T146588. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. Rote Maroquin-Einbände: A collection of old ballads, Volume I-III, London 1726-1738, Kupferstiche Sehr schöne englische Balladensammlung in drei Bänden (Mischauflage: Band 1 in dritter Auflage, Band 2 und 3 in zweiter Auflage), mit dekorativen roten Maroquin-Handeinbänden des 19. Jahrhunderts, mit goldgeprägtem Einbandschmuck und Goldschnitt. Mit einheitlichem Rückentitel ("Old Ballads. Vol. I. [II. & III.]. London 1727"), obwohl nur der erste Band 1727 gedruckt wurde (die anderen Bände 1726 und 1738). --- "A collection of old ballads. Corrected from the best and most ancient copies extant. With introductions historical, critical, or humorous" [Band 2 und 3 mit dem kürzeren Zusatz: "With introductions historical and critical"]. Illustrated with copper plates. Volume I (bis III)." London, J. Roberts 1726-1738 Dekorative Maroquin-Einbände im Format 17 x 10 x 1,7 cm. --- (2) + VIII + (4) + 287 + (1) Seiten; (4) + 11 + (4) + 267 + (1) Seiten sowie (4) + XII + (5) + 264 Seiten. Die Kupferstiche jeweils außerhalb der Seitenzählung. --- Zustand: Einbände leicht berieben, Seiten etwas gebräunt. Sehr schöner Zustand.…

Zustand: New. Print on Demand pp. 344.