The king and a poor northern man
Subtitle: or, too good to be true. From the Edition of 1640. Attributed to Martin Parker
Publisher: Reprinted for the Percy Society, by C. Richards
Published: 1841
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Description: <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;">8vo. pp. viii, 20. There are two copies in this collection. The present is in original wrappers, signed by Henry Crabb Robinson. It has stamps of University College Nottingham.</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;">A revised and final version of the ballad of "The king and a poore northerne man," with reproduction of the title page of the original 1640 edition. See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A35.</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/alma991001401839707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>