Historical & Legendary Ballads & Songs
Half title; frontispiece; title page with vignette; preface; contents; list of illustrations; pp. 1-(281) including numerous illustrations; 1 leaf of advertisements. Bound in boards coverd with brown textured leather; gold title on red leather on front cover and spine. Gilt page edges. Floral motif endpapers.
Artwork Details
- Title: Historical & Legendary Ballads & Songs
- Author: Walter Thornbury (British, London 1828–1876 London)
- Illustrator: Edward Henry Corbould (British, London 1815–1905 London)
- Illustrator: George Du Maurier (British, Paris 1834–1896 London)
- Illustrator: Fritz Eltze (British, died 1870)
- Illustrator: A. R. Fairfield (British, active 1861–87)
- Illustrator: Charles Green (British, 1840–1898 Hampstead)
- Illustrator: Townley Green (British, 1836–1899)
- Illustrator: Arthur Boyd Houghton (British (born India), Madras 1836–1875 London)
- Illustrator: Charles Samuel Keene (British, Hornsey, Middlesex 1823–1891 London)
- Illustrator: Matthew James Lawless (Irish, Dublin 1837–1864 London)
- Illustrator: John Lawson (British, born 1838 Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, active to 1909)
- Illustrator: Thomas Robert Macquoid (British, 1820–1912)
- Illustrator: Thomas Morten (British, Uxbridge 1836–1866 London)
- Illustrator: George John Pinwell (British, London 1842–1875 London)
- Illustrator: Edouard Riou (French, Saint-Servan 1833–1900 Paris)
- Illustrator: Frederick Augustus Sandys (British, Norwich 1829–1904 London)
- Illustrator: William Percival Skelton (British, 1813–1900)
- Illustrator: William Small (British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1843–1931 Worcester)
- Illustrator: Sir John Tenniel (British, London 1820–1914 London)
- Illustrator: Frederick Walker (British, London 1840–1875 Perthshire, Scotland)
- Illustrator: John Dawson Watson (British, Sedbergh, Yorkshire 1832–1892 Conwy, Wales)
- Illustrator: James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London)
- Engraver: Dalziel Brothers (British, active 1839–93)
- Engraver: Joseph Swain (British, Oxford 1820–1909 London)
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus (London)
- Printer: Camden Press (British, London)
- Date: 1876
- Medium: Illustrations: wood engraving
- Dimensions: 9 15/16 x 7 3/4 x 1 7/16 in. (25.2 x 19.7 x 3.7 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Gift of Sinclair Hamilton, 1965
- Object Number: 65.629.12
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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