Ancient songs, chiefly on Moorish subjects /
translated from the Spanish [with the originals] by Thomas Percy. With a preface by David Nichol Smith.
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| Language: | English Spanish |
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Oxford :
Printed by J. Johnson for H. Milford at the Oxford university press, London,
1932.
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| Notes: | "250 copies have been printed, of which 230 copies are for sale. This is no. 73." This work was to have been published by S. Leacroft, London, in 1775. "[Percy] procured designs for an engraved title-page and for a frontispiece, as well as smaller illustrations; and he saw most of the text in proof. Why the book was not completed we can only surmise." cf. p. [v]-vi. With tp., etc., of the original edition which was never completed, nor published. Tp. reads 'Ancient songs ... By the editor of the Hermit of Warkworth. London, Pr. for S. Leacroft at the Globe, Charing Cross, 1775.' Also frontisp., engr. tp., 'Three drawings for woodcuts by Henry Swinburne,' and 'Rejected designs in copperplate for the frontispiece and title-page.'. With tp., etc., of the original edition which was never completed, nor published. Tp. reads 'Ancient songs ... By the editor of the Hermit of Warkworth. London, Pr. for S. Leacroft at the Globe, Charing Cross, 1775.' Also frontisp., engr. tp., 'Three drawings for woodcuts by Henry Swinburne,' and 'Rejected designs in copperplate for the frontispiece and title-page.' "Alcanzor and Zayda" and "The Moorish bull feast", included also in Percy's "Reliques", are in English only; the other ballads are in Spanish and English. Physical description: xviii, 56 p., 2 leaves : ill ; 30 x 23 cm. more |