A lytell geste of Robin Hode with other ancient & modern ballads and songs relating to this celebrated yeoman To which is prefixed his history and character, grounded upon other documents than those made use of by his former biographer [...] Vol. I
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans Richards, Printer
Published: 1847
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
Description: <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;"><b>Full title:</b> A lytell geste of Robin Hode with other ancient &amp; modern ballads and songs relating to this celebrated yeoman To which is prefixed his history and character, grounded upon other documents than those made use of by his former biographer, “Mister Ritson.” Edited by John Mathew Gutch, F.S.A. and adorned with cuts by F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A. In two volumes.—Vol. I.</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;"><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;">First of 2 volumes in 8vo. pp. viii, xxxviii, f. [1], pp. 391. Illustrated.</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;">Includes two spurious Robin Hood ballads by Collier, who anonymously reviewed the book in the Athenaeum of 20 February 1847, pp. 193-195. One of those spurious ballads is ‘Robin Hood’s Leap,’ cf. OMD (1871), I, pp, 96-100.</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/catalog/bib_4117290" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>