The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Parts V & VI
first edition paperback
1889 · Boston
by CHILD, Francis James
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889. Limited. paperback. very good(+). Volumes 5 & 6 only (from the 10 volumes set). 1-254; 255-521 pages. 4to, original white printed wrappers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1889). Limited first edition -- number 309 of 1000 copies. White wrappers are a chipped at spine ends; bookplate on front endpaper, else internally clean and fine. Two volumes, with continuous pagination, from this massive compilation of ballads, some hitherto unpublished, including many by William Motherwell. (Inventory #: 269501)