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Hutchinson & Co., 1934. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1934. No Edition Remarks. 280 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrated plates by H. M. Brock. Spine and board edges are mottled with mould. Pages are rough cut. Page 116 plate appears to be missing. Pages are lightly tanned with moderate foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout, with a few nicks and creases along text block edge. Plates are bright and clear, with light tanning and foxing to edges. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with mild bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and considerate rub wear to surfaces. Heavy tanning and mottling to spine and edges. Notable water drops on rear board.

London.: Hutchinson & Co., 1934. xxxix, 280pp, with illustrations & 16 full page colour plates by H. M. Brock. Original brown cloth. Solid & tight binding, with light marks, & spine gilt title is dulled. Internally, pages & plates are clean & bright.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by H. M. Brock.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Hutchinson, 1934. Book. Illus. by BROCK, H.M.. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition.. xxxix + 280pp; With 16 full-page colour illustrations and numerous b/w textual illustrations; Dec. edged; Gilt lettering to cover and spine; Slight shelf-wear to edges else a bright and sound copy; Includes Oscar Wilde's 'The Ballad Of Reading Gaol'; Size: 4to.

London: Hutchinson, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition. Illustrated by H. M. Brock. 4to (285 x 210mm). Pp xxxix + 279 + frontis and 15pp colour plates. Olive cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. Very Good without dust-jacket.

HUTCHINSON. LONDON. 1934. VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN BOWN CLOTH - SLIGHT RUBBING. GOLD EMBOSSED TITLE ON SPINE AND FRONT BOARD. 16 PLATES ILLUSTRATED BY H.M. BROCK IN COLOUR. 1ST EDITION.

LONDON : Hutchinson and Co, 1934 A VG copy in the original decorative cloth with 16 full page colour plates by H M Brock. Nichols selected ballads from a wide range of sources and this collection includes The Gaberlunzie Man, Sir Lancelot du Lake, Thomas the Rhymer, and The Earl of Mar's daughter. The illustrations are superb. In light brown cloth binding with gilt decoration and titles to the front board and the spine. With decorative endpapers and numerous black and white designs by Brock in addition to the plates. The binding has light bumping to corners. There is a neat ink signature to one of the preliminaries. The contents are in excellent condition.

London; Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.; 1934.. First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. xl, 280; pictorial endpapers, coloured frontispiece, 15 other full page coloured plates, numerous b/w. text illustrations, appendix, original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board, stamped decoration to front board, top edge gilt others uncut, corners a little bumped, covers a little marked, still a good tight copy. The ballads, even the lightest and blossoming of them, were deep-rooted in the soil of English history. How different from anything that we possess to-day! Great causes do not lead men to song, nowdays they lead them to write letters to newspapers" These poems are the very essence of the British spirit.