Ancient songs, chiefly on Moorish subjects
By: translated from the Spanish by Thomas Percy. With a preface by David Nichol Smith.
Contributors: Smith, David Nichol, 1875-1962, ed.
Publisher: Printed by J. Johnson for H. Milford at the Oxford university press, London
Published: 1932
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Spanish ballads and songs; Spanish poetry -- Translations into English
Notes: "Alcanzor and Zayda" and "The Moorish bull feast", included also in Percy's "Reliques", are in English only; the other ballads are in Spanish and English.
"250 copies have been printed, of which 230 copies are for sale. This is no. 73."
This work was to have been published by S. Leacroft, London, in 1775. "[Percy] procured designs for an engraved title-page and for a frontispiece, as well as smaller illustrations; and he saw most of the text in proof. Why the book was not completed we can only surmise." cf. p. [v]-vi.
Table of contents: title: El armamento del Moro. The Moor's equipment.; title: El moro alcayde. The Moor alcaidy.; title: La venganc̜a del Moro. The Moor's revenge.; title: Rio verde, rio verde. Gentle river, gentle river.; title: Alcanzor and Zayda.; title: The Moorish bull feast.; title: El marinero de amor. The mariner of love.; title: Notes.