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Bishop Percy's folio manuscript. Loose and humorous songs. Edited by John W. Hales ... and Frederick J. Furnivall ...

Accession number
PML 9044
Creator
Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811.
Published
London, N. Trubner, 1867.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Ballads omitted from the editors' 3 vol. edition of the manuscript, 1867-68.
From the 17th century manuscript on which Percy based his "Reliques of ancient poetry", 1765; now Brit. mus. Add. ms. 27879.
Large paper copy.
Description
viii, 127 p. 23 cm.
Provenance
Theodore Irwin, purchased from E.G. Asay, Dec. 1881; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Gilt-tooled red morocco by Francis Bedford.
Classification
Department