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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry : Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, (Chiefly of the Lyric Kind.) Together with Some Few of Later Date
by Editor-Thomas Percy
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London : J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1765. Leather Bound. Good. London: J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1765. 3 volumes. 12mo. Rebound in 1938. Fully bound in semi-modern calf-skin leather. 5 raised bands. 6 compartments. Gilt-embossed lettering on spine. Moderate shelf wear- Volume 1: Front board loose, Rear board detached. Slight bumping to corners. Minor rubbing. Volume 2: Front board detached. Rear board loose. Bumping to corners. Minor rubbing. Scuffing to spine ends. Volume 3: Both boards reaffixed. Slight bumping. Rubbing to spine, edges. Light library markings and stamps on title pages. Light notation on ffep of Volume 1. Otherwise, clean, unmarked pages throughout. Presumably retrieved from the personal library of Lewis Carroll.<br><br>A ballad entitled George Barnwell and paged [225]-[240] inserted between pages 224 and 225 in v.3. Imperfect: v.1, front. (portrait), p. 337-338 and 343-344 wanting; v.2, half-title; v.3, half-title, p.67-68 and 75-80, wanting. Pages 205-206, v.2, and 5-6, 103-104, v.3, seem to have been supplied.<br><br>Written about the middle of the last century, this set contains compositions of all times and dates, from the ages prior to Chaucer, to the conclusion of the reign of Charles I.<br><br>An attractively rebound set. Please feel free to view our photographs.
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- Title
- Reliques of Ancient English Poetry : Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, (Chiefly of the Lyric Kind.) Together with Some Few of Later Date
- Author
- Editor-Thomas Percy
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall
- Date Published
- 1765
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry and Verse;
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- 12mo
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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