Some British Ballads.

Bookseller

Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

56816

Title

Some British Ballads.

Author

RACKHAM, Arthur

Illustrator

With 16 tipped-in color plates, with tissue overleaves, by Arthur Rackham.

Format/Binding

Publisher's blue gilt cloth in Heinemann dust jacket mentioning (the dust jacket does not appear to be supplied).

Book Condition

Used - Old ink gift inscription on flyleaf; bookplate on the illustrated pastedown; a bright copy with slight creasing to the cloth at

Edition

First trade edition; later, Heinemann issue with pictorial endsh

Binding

Hardcover

Publisher

Constable & Co. Ltd.,

Place of Publication

London:

Date Published

[1919].

Pages

170 pp.

Size

Folio,

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Cloth

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Gilt

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Bookplate

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