Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Full title: Robin Hood: : a collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw : to which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life : in two volumes.

London: : Printed for T. Egerton, Whitehall, and J. Johnson, St. Pauls-Church-Yard.

MDCCXCV. [1795]

2 v. : illustrations (wood engravings), genealogical table, music ; 19 cm. (8vo)

Compiled and edited by Joseph Ritson.

Pagination: v. 1: [4], cxviii, [2], 167, [1] p.; v. 2: [8], 220, [4] p.

With half titles.

Illustrations are head and tail vignettes by John and Thomas Bewick (see Dobson).

Glossaries in each volume.

Printed music, mostly in v. 2 "Appendix."

First section, with caption- and running title: "The life of Robin Hood" and Notes and illustrations: v. 1, cxviii p. (second count); includes genealogical table.

"Corrections and additional notes": v. 2, final [4] p.

Publishers' advertisement, v. 2, final leaf.

Presented by Seymour Schulich [Gift2015]

Ritson, Joseph, 1752-1803, editor.
Bewick, John, 1760-1795, illustrator.
Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828, illustrator.
Egerton, Thomas, bookseller.
Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809, bookseller.
Schulich, Seymour, donor. former owner.
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

English

PR2125 R6 1795
ESTC T60853
Irwin, T. Lib. cat., 2388
NCBEL, v. 2, col. 1764
Dobson, A. Thomas Bewick and his pupils, 78
Alston, R.C. Engl. language, III:47