Old English ballads : a collection of favourite ballads of the olden time / with fifty illustrations by Birket Foster, Joseph Nash, Frederick Tayler, George Thomas, John Absolon, and John Franklin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Absolon, John, 1815-1895, Illustrator.

Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899, Illustrator.

Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889., Illustrator.

Leighton, John, 1822-1912., Binding designer.

Ward & Lock., Publisher.

Leighton Son & Hodge., Binder.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballads, English.

Genre:

Signed bindings (Binding) -- 1864.

Binders' tickets (Binding) -- 1864.

Physical Description:

xi, 272 [4] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Ward and Lock, 1864.

Notes:

Printer's device on verso of half-title.

Cover design by John Leighton, and signed "JL" on spine.

Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: "Bound by by Leighton Son and Hodge."

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift: Koblenzer.

Cited in:

King, Edmund M.B. Victorian decorated trade bindings 1830-1880, 430

OCLC:

11672534