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Ballads : romantic, fantastical, and humorous / by William Harrison Ainsworth ; illustrated by John Gilbert.

Accession number
PML 142736
Creator
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882.
Published
London : G. Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street ..., 1855.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
1st ed.
Wood engraved illustrations by the Dalziels after Gilbert.
"Savill and Edwards, Chandos Street, Covent Garden."--Colophon.
Plates accompanied by guard tissues.
Includes [2] p. of publisher's advertisements at end.
Includes translations: "Elegy on the Cardinal Borromeo" freely tr. from the Latin of J. Crichton's "Epicedium illustrissimi ... Cardinalis Caroli Boromaei", Milan, 1584; "Congratulatory address to Gaspar Visconti" freely tr. from the Latin of J. Crichton's "Ad ... Gasparem Vicecomitem ... gratulatio", Milan, 1584.
Description
ix, 274, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (wood engravings) ; 17 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Forrest Reid; J.N. Hart; and Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's red cloth blocked in gold and blind.
Classification
Department