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[King, (Richard John) editor]

Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland

[by Charles Whittingham for] William Pickering London 1842 First Edition Title printed in red and black within a woodcut architectural border. 12mo. [168 x 100 x 21 mm]. viii, xl, 291 pp. Bound in contemporary dark brown calf over slightly bevelled boards, the covers with a blind tooled border. The spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second on a lighter brown goatskin label and the others tooled in blind, marbled endleaves, red edges. (The leather slightly faded at the head of the front cover and slightly rubbed). Porter 383. 1000 copies were printed. This is a fine one in an attractive "old-style" binding. Bookplate of Richard Laurence Pemberton.

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