Broadside Ballads of the Restoration Period from the Jersey Collection, known as the Osterley Park Ballads. by FAWCETT, F. Burlington (ed) - 1930

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1930. Ex-Library. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. Limited. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Tan 1/4 buckram, decorated cloth covered boards, top edge in gilt, deckled text block edges. Ex-library (non-circulating) with only modest wear, handwritten call number on lower spine, institutional book plate mounted on front pastedown, perforation stamps at top corner of front flyleaf and title page, stamp along bottom text block edge. Top corners slightly rubbed, bottom corners with mild exposure. Tan portions of cloth lightly soiled. xxvi,248 pp. No. 408 of an edition limited to 750 copies. Overall, a still not unattractive copy, primarily cosmetic blemishes, with clean text block..

London. John Lane, the Bodley Head Limited. 1930, 1930. Soft cover. folio, xxvi,248p., title-page vignette, index of titles, first lines & tune, Edition Limited to 750 copies, this being #493, on laid paper, bound in quartern off white linen and colour decorated cloth boards, gilt spine titles, t.e.g., slightly dust worn, a very good to fine sound copy (cds1.1). - A work comprising ninety-three ballads dating from the seventeenth century. Thirty-one are considered very rare with the only examples extant being in the Pepysian Collection at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1930. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed. 14" by 9". Unnamed. A first limited edition copy of this fascinating work, containing the Restoration period broadside ballads from the 'Jersey Collection', held at Osterley Park. With an introduction and notes by F. Burlington Fawcett. These ballads are named the 'Jersey Collection' as the location these ballads were taken from owned by the Earls of Jersey for centuries. Osterley Park is one of the largest open spaces in London. It is the home of a large mansion which is often referred to as 'Osterley House'. The house and grounds belonged to the Earls of Jersey for many years starting in 1785. The house was opened to the family in 1939 following the Second World War as there were many requests to see the house's historic interiors. This edition is limited to seven hundred and fifty copies for sale, of which this copy is numbered '305'. Complete with scarce original unclipped… Read More