Ritson, Joseph 1820a

Original board cover / Private collection.

[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. and a few in text [by Thomas Bewick and/or John 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. Includes only a few vignettes. Most of the illustrations by Thomas and/or John Bewick that are usually found in editions of this work have been excluded.

Copies

• BLCh.820/32
• LC
• University of Chicago Library
• Gable Collection, Cleveland Public Library (as of 1935)
• Nottingham Public Libraries Robin Hood collection (as of 1933).

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)

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