Reliques of Ancient English Poetry / Thomas Percy
Book
610 pages, plus 18 pages advertising for publisher's cheap book series. Frontis.
Inferior paper and printing- text pages are browned and brittle.
2015.7.182
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Ballads1890sEarly modern
7-1/2 in
4-3/4 in
Thomas Percy
Robert Aris Willmott
Edward Corbould
G. Routledge and Sons
London
England
circa 1890
Publisher's Binding- Cheap Book Production
Bound in dark brown cloth with very attractive art nouveau gilt stamping to the spine - the only decoration. Brown floral endpapers.
No publication date. Pencil note on flyleaf: "Circa 1860."