Bentley ballads
Subtitle: containing the choice ballads, songs and poems contributed to "Bentley's Miscellany.".
Contributors: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878; Leighton, John, 1822-1912; Suddon, Alan, 1924-; W.C. Chewett & Co.
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Richard Bentley
Published: 1866
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
Subjects: Ballads, English -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Work titles: Bentley's miscellany
Notes: Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Added wood-engraved illustrated t.p. with imprints: "C. [i.e. G] Cruikshank, delt." and "J. Brown. sculp.".

Added illustrated t.p. is the same as that used in an 1858 edition of this title published by Richard Bentley.  See McLean D 0074.

"The first edition was selected from only six volumes of "Bentley's Miscellany"--from 1837 to 1840; the present includes all the most famous Songs and Ballads contributed to that celebrated magazine during a period of eighteen years, from 1837 to 1855."--Advertisement to the New Edition.

Cohn, A. M. George Cruikshank, 68.

MASS copy: Bound in dark brown sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design as McLean D 0074.  Upper cover and spine blocked in gold with images replicated from illustrated t.p.  Upper cover and spine with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton].  Spine with imprint: "London.  R. Bentley.".  With red-brown painted endpapers.  With bookseller's label: "W. C. Chewett & Co.  Booksellers,  17&19 King St. East,  Toronto.".  From the library of Alan Suddon.