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Robin Hood : a collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw : to which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life. In two volumes.

Accession number
PML 130084-85
Creator
Ritson, Joseph, 1752-1803.
Published
London : Printed for T. Egerton ... and J. Johnson ..., 1795.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Actual height is 20.3 cm
Apparently lacking fly-title [leaf pi4], v. 2,
Engraved frontispiece, v. 1, not part of original publication: "The stone in Kirklee's Park, Yorkshire; and by vulgar tradition ascribed to Robin Hood," dated 1797.
Glossaries in each volume.
Pagination: v. 1: [4], cxviii, [2], 167, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [8], 220, [4] p.
Printed music, v. 2 "Appendix."
Vignettes by John Bewick (see Dobson).
Description
2 v. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 21 cm
Provenance
Formerly owned by Viscount Halifax (armorial bookplate); Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Green morocco, gold-tooled, with dentelles, by Wright.
Classification
Department