The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume V by Francis James Child

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Peter Smith/Dover, 1965. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a hardcover edition, published by Peter Smith, of the Dover reprint of the final volume of this five-volume collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, originally published in the 1880s and 1890s; the editor was a Harvard Professor of English; this volume contains Ballads 266 to 305, additions and corrections to ballads from the previous four volumes, glossary, bibliography, various indexes, and an essay by Walter Morris Hart, "Professor Child and the Ballad" (red cloth with black lettering on spine, front cover is creased; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; Volume IV also available)