Reliques of ancient English poetry
Subtitle: consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of our earlier Poets,  Together with some few of later Date. Volume the second
Publisher: Printed for James Dodsley
Published: 1765
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
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;">Second of 3 volumes in 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [iv], iii, [i], 384, [2] (last blank), f. [1] (blank). Calf. Gilt, with contrasting morocco labels. Contains illustrations, music, engraved head- and tailpieces, and title vignettes. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Includes half-title. </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;">First edition. In this volume, on pp. 87-102, Bishop Percy includes the ballad imitation ‘Hardyknute,’ but as a modern, skilful pastiche, presented for comparison with ‘other pieces of genuine antiquity,’ and attributed (for the first time in print?) to Elizabeth Halket (1677-1727), Lady Wardlaw. Previously, the poem was first printed on a single duodecimo leaf in 1719 (D.F. Foxon, English Verse, 1701-1750, W 213, known in only three copies) as an ancient poem discovered in a vault at Dumferline by Lady Wardlaw. See Bib# 4103137/Fr# 483 in this collection for Allan Ramsay’s edition of the poem and Bib# 7138287/Fr# 483.1 for a forged ‘Second Part’ of the poem by John Pinkerton, which deceived Percy. See M.G. Robinson &amp; L. Dennis, ‘The Percy Letters’ (Vol. 4: The correspondence of T. Percy and T. Warton, Baton Rouge, 1951), pp. 17-18. In the 1767 second edition of the ‘Reliques’ Percy identifies his Scottish correspondent as Lord Hailes, but otherwise the note is the same (pace Robert Chambers (see Bib# 4103139/Fr# 485). See also ESTC, T84936.</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;"><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/alma991039119429707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>