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A book of Roxburghe ballads, edited by John Payne Collier, Esq.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 4to. pp, xxii, xxv-xxvi, [2], 340. Original Roxburghe boards, rebacked. Liberally illustrated with re-workings of woodcuts by F. W. Fairholt.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Most of the 55 ballads derive from the 3-volume Roxburghe collection of 1355 broadsides purchased by the British Museum at the sale of B. H. Bright’s books (Sotheby’s, 3 March 1845, lot 296). Collier added some more ballads, some of which do not appear ever to have existed in broadside. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 472-476; II, A67. </span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039185789707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>
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