Folio. vii, [1], 440pp, [2]. With an engraved title page and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. text within engraved border. Bound by J. W. Mason & Son in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Upper hinge exposed, bookbinder's ticket to FEP, blind-stamp of bookseller C. W. Holdich of Hull to front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting.

A handsomely bound copy of S. C. Hall's popular, profusely illustrated, anthology of traditional British ballads, designed to be 'agreeable and interesting to the general reader, and not unsatisfactory to the antiquary and the scholar'.