Old English ballads
Subtitle: a collection of favourite ballads of the olden time
By: with fifty illustrations by Birket Foster, Joseph Nash, Frederick Tayler, George Thomas, John Absolon, and John Franklin.
Contributors: Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899.; Nash, Joseph, 1808-1878.; Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889; Thomas, George Housman, 1824-1868.; Absolon, John, 1815-1895.; Franklin, John, fl. 1800-1861.; Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897; Thomas, William Luson, 1830-1900; Gray, Charles, engraver, d. 1847; Dalziel, George, 1815-1902.; Dalziel, Edward, 1817-1905.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Harral, Horace.; J. Ogden and Co.
Publisher: Ward, Lock and Tyler
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Ballads, English.; Gift books -- Specimens
Genres: Specimens
Notes: According to Topp, "Ward, Locke and Tyler" used this form between 1865 and 1877 and moved to Warwick House in April 1866; they published editions of "Christmas with the poets" in 1869 (5th) and 1872 (6th).

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-4] at end.

Preliminary plate included in pagination.

Includes illustrations by John Gilbert and Henri Hendrick.

Several illustrations are signed as engraved by "W. Thomas" or "W. L. Thomas".  One is signed "G. Dalziel Sc.", a few "E. Dalziel Sc." and another "C. Gray. Sc.".  Two are signed "W. G. Mason", and one signed "E. Evans Sc." and another "H. Harral Sc.".

MASS copy: Bound in green sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  With a central oval lavender cloth onlay blocked in gold with the title on the upper cover. Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.