Ritson, Joseph 1820a

[Ritson, 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: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. xii, [iii]-[l]xxiv, 240 pp. 12mo. Vign. on t.-p.; wood engrawings [by Thomas Bewick]. LC No. 16-4676.

Name of editor and illustrator not cited on t.p. or elsewhere in this ed. Includes only some of Ritson's notes from the first ed.; the rest omitted as either irrelevant or inadmissible in a work designed for young persons, cf. preface.

Copies

• BLCh.820/32
• LC
• University of Chicago Library
• Gable Collection, Cleveland Public Library
• Nottingham Public Libraries Robin Hood collection.

Bibliographical sources

• English Catalogue of Books
• 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 (2)
• Grässe, Johann Georg Theodor, compil. Trésor de Livres Rares et Précieux (Dresden, 1859-69)
• Lowndes, William, compil. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature (London, 1834), p. 1567
• Walker, Violet Winifred, compil. Robin Hood Literature in the Nottingham Public Libraries (Nottingham, 1933).

Citation

• [Ritson, 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, 1820)

Ritson, Joseph

Ritson, Joseph1st ed.