Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927. cloth, dust jacket. large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvii, (i), 270 pages. First edition. Spine of price-clipped jacket faded, with crude tape repairs at spine ends, else a near fine copy.

A survey of Anthony Wood's collection of broadside ballads which are now at the Bodley Library. This collections consists of 279 separate broadsides which are scattered through eight volumes, which Wood poorly arranged and poorly preserved. Wood's collection is small in bulk but it is one of the most valuable and interesting of them all. Approximately 210 of the ballads are unique and is from the most picturesque period in the history of ballad, between 1660 and 1675. Illustrated and indexed.

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Bookseller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 140508
Title: PACK OF AUTOLYCUS OR STRANGE AND TERRIBLE NEWS.|THE
Author: Rollins, Hyder Edward
Format/Binding: Cloth, dust jacket
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Date Published: 1927
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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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