Description
Item Description:Added t.p., engraved.
"A selection from the materials collected and edited by Mr. Child ... prepared in accordance with a plan which he had approved. Each of the three hundred and five ballads in his large collection (except no. 33, 279, 281, 290, and 299) is represented ... without the apparatus criticus, and with very short introductions. The notes ... necessarily brief ..."--Pref.
Physical Description:1 p.l., xxxi, 729, [1] p. front. (port.) 22 cm.