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Leach, MacEdward (Editor) : The Book of Ballads

The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1967

Limited edition. No. 247 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. Printed for members of The Limited Editions Club. Original publisher's red boards backed with green cloth in a gray slipcase. Book measures 6 7/8" x 11." Slipcase measures 7" x 11 3/8." (i)-(xxiv) 1-215, complete. Thirty-six hand-colored woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel, complete. Includes an introduction by MacEdward Leach and glossary of terms in front. Appendix with notes and index in back. Publisher's promotional materials laid in. One of them, a one-page paper, summarizes the specifications of this book such as it being Number Eight in a series distributed to The Limited Editions Club, the font, the type of paper used in the book, and information about the woodcut illustrations. The other is a four-page letter that describes what a ballad is, a brief history of the ballad, and an overview of the book's contents. Pages and covers of book and the slipcase are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. A fine copy in a fine, unworn box. This book contains a collection of ballads that are "the most representative, best-known, and most entertaining examples of this type of oral literature." The woodcuts were hand-colored using the pochoir process of stenciling at the Walter Fischer Studio.. Illustr.: Kredel, Fritz. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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