Title: The Book of British Ballads. Second Series Author: Hall, S[amuel] C[arter], editor Place: London Publisher: Jeremiah How Date: 1844 Description: viii, 235-[442] pp. Pictorial title-page and many wood-engraved illustrations, vignettes, borders, and initials. 10x7, publisher's full reddish-brown morocco, decoratively stamped and ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. First Edition. Second volume only of this two-part series; the first volume had been issued in 1842. Gordon Ray calls this work "the most ambitious English book with wood engravings" produced during the period from 1790 to 1914. The artists in this volume include: John Tenniel (his first commission as a book-illustrator), George Dalziel Henry Townsend, "Alfred Crowquill" (Alfred H. Forrester), etc. Ray calls Townsend's sketches for "Glenfinlas" one of "the great successes of the book" as one of its two "excursions into the supernatural." Muir, Victorian Illustrated Books, pp. 34-35; Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England.., 61. Lot Amendments Condition: Hinges rubbed at ends, a few tiny gouges to lower spine; early gift inscription; otherwise an extraordinarily bright copy, near fine. Item number: 185974
Title: The Book of British Ballads. Second Series Author: Hall, S[amuel] C[arter], editor Place: London Publisher: Jeremiah How Date: 1844 Description: viii, 235-[442] pp. Pictorial title-page and many wood-engraved illustrations, vignettes, borders, and initials. 10x7, publisher's full reddish-brown morocco, decoratively stamped and ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. First Edition. Second volume only of this two-part series; the first volume had been issued in 1842. Gordon Ray calls this work "the most ambitious English book with wood engravings" produced during the period from 1790 to 1914. The artists in this volume include: John Tenniel (his first commission as a book-illustrator), George Dalziel Henry Townsend, "Alfred Crowquill" (Alfred H. Forrester), etc. Ray calls Townsend's sketches for "Glenfinlas" one of "the great successes of the book" as one of its two "excursions into the supernatural." Muir, Victorian Illustrated Books, pp. 34-35; Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England.., 61. Lot Amendments Condition: Hinges rubbed at ends, a few tiny gouges to lower spine; early gift inscription; otherwise an extraordinarily bright copy, near fine. Item number: 185974
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