Ballads done into English from the French of Francois Villon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Villon, François, 1431-1463.

Contributor:

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882, translator.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909, translator.

Payne, John, 1842-1916, translator.

Thomas B. Mosher (Firm), publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Homer, Eleanor M. (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Physical Description:

vii, 42 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Portland, Me. : Thomas B. Mosher, 1907.

Contents:

The ballad of dead ladies ; To death, of his lady ; His mother's service to our lady / translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The complaint of the fair armouress ; A double ballad of good counsel ; Fragment on death ; Ballad of the lords of the old time ; Ballad of the women of Paris ; Ballad written for a bridegroom ; Ballad against the enemies of France ; The dispute of the heart and body of Franðcois Villon ; Epistle in form of a ballad to his friends ; The epitaph in form of a ballad / translated by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Ballad of the old-time lords, no. 2 ; The doctrine of the fair helm-maker to the light o' loves ; Seemly lesson of Villon to the good-for-noughts ; Ballad of good doctrine to those of ill-life ; Ballad crying all folk mercy ; Ballad, by way of ending ; Epitaph and roundel / translated by John Payne.

Notes:

"Nine hundred and fifty copies of this book printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed."

Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne and John Payne.

"First edition, October, 1904; second edition, April, 1907."

Local Notes:

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Mosher Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Cited in:

Bishop, P.R. Mosher, 17.1

Hatch, B.L. Mosher, 428

Other Format:

Online version: Villon, François, 1431-1463. Ballads done into English from the French of Francois Villon.

OCLC:

2814266