Ritson, Joseph 1832a

Ritson, Joseph, ed.; Frank, Joseph, ed. Robin Hood: a Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, to which are prefixed Historical Anecdotes of his Life. London: W. Pickering, 1832. 2 vols. 12mo. Wood engravings. Illustrator: Thomas Bewick (1753-1828).

Bibliographical sources

• Gable, John Harris, compil. A Bibliography of Robin Hood (University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature and Criticism, vol. 17) (Lincoln, Nebraska, 1939), No. 674 [6]
• Lowndes, William Thomas, compil.; Bohn, Henry G., compil. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. New Edition (London, 1869), , vol. IV, pp. 2098-99: 'This edition contains several additions made by Ritson in his own copy, and the Editor (his nephew) has added in the Appendix the tale of Robin Hood and the Monk, which Ritson did not know was in existence. The woodcuts are better struck off, and clearer'
• Walker, Violet Winifred, compil. Robin Hood Literature in the Nottingham Public Libraries (Nottingham, 1933).

Copies

• BL: 992.k.18.
• LC: Card No. 16-4677
• Nottingham Public Libraries' Robin Hood collection (as of 1935).

Citation

• Ritson, Joseph, ed.; Frank, Joseph, ed. Robin Hood: a Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, to which are prefixed Historical Anecdotes of his Life (London, 1832).

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