A Book of favourite modern ballads
By: illustrated with engravings, from drawings by J.C. Horsley, Edward Duncan, G.H. Thomas, Edwin H. Corbould, Birket Foster, C.W. Cope, Harrison Weir, W. Harvey, A. Solomon, etc.; printed in colours by Edmund Evans.
Contributors: Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895.; Warren, Albert Henry, 1830-1911.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.; Leighton, Son and Hodge
Publisher: Ward, Lock, & Tyler
Published: 1865
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Ballads, English.
Other titles: Favourite modern ballads
Notes: Added. ill. t.p. and frontispiece designed by Albert H. Warren.

Editor's preface signed J.C. [i.e. Joseph Cundall].

Extracts from Scott, Burns, Wordsworth and others.

Each page within ornamental border which is printed in gold.

The ornamental designs by Albert H. Warren".

"Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans".

Originally published in 1860 by W. Kent, with the illustrations printed in black and 1 or 2 neutral tints, rather than in full colour as here.

MASS copy 1: Bound in red sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g. Binder's ticket: Leighton Son and Hodge. Bookseller's label: Thomas James ... Rugeley.

MASS copy 2: Ex-libris Fianach Jardine. Bound in red sand-grain cloth in the same design as copy 1; a.e.g.