Here then is love ballads of the XVIth century : being a pleasant collection of choice songs relating to the affections of the heart, and some other themes as written and sung by divers and sundry eminent witts and scholars at weddings, christenings and such like festive occasions for the edification of ladies and gentlemen / endorsed by H.R.H., the Duke of York.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roycroft Shop.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballads.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

120 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Love ballads of the XVIth century

Love ballads of the sixteenth century

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Printing Shop, 1897.

Notes:

Printing in red and black; some hand colored initials.

The text body is Antiqua Old Style with the preface set in Monotype Series #16. The book was printed in two colors on Ruisdael paper with a cloth spine and paper over boards. The press run numbers are unknown but forty copies were specially hand illuminated. Many of the books have some, if not all, initial letters illuminated.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]

Local Notes:

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is bound in yellow boards, red cloth spine with a paper label. First initial illumined.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 14

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-010-97

Other Format:

Online version: Here then is love ballads of the XVIth century.

OCLC:

555821276