A book of Roxburghe ballads, edited by John Payne Collier, Esq.

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A book of Roxburghe ballads, edited by John Payne Collier, Esq.

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4to. pp, xxii, xxv-xxvi, [2], 340. Original Roxburghe boards, rebacked. Liberally illustrated with re-workings of woodcuts by F. W. Fairholt. Most of the 55 ballads derive from the 3-volume Roxburghe collection of 1355 broadsides purchased by the British Museum at the sale of B. H. Bright’s books (Sotheby’s, 3 March 1845, lot 296). Collier added some more ballads, some of which do not appear ever to have existed in broadside. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 472-476; II, A67. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039185789707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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A book of Roxburghe ballads, edited by John Payne Collier, Esq.
John P. (John Payne) (ed.) Collier | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans C. Whittingham | 1847