Robin Hood
Title
Robin Hood
Alternative Title
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.
Publisher
London: : Printed for T. Egerton, Whitehall, and J. Johnson, St. Pauls-Church-Yard.
Date
MDCCXCV. [1795]
Format
2 v. : illustrations (wood engravings), genealogical table, music ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Description
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.
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.
Provenance
Presented by Seymour Schulich [Gift2015]
Contributor
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.
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.
Language
English
Identifier
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
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
Relation
Collection
Citation
“Robin Hood,” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed April 28, 2024, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/90.