First edition of the first scholarly collection of Robin Hood ballads. Two volumes. Octavo. Half-titles present to both volumes. Bound in contemporary marbled calf, rebacked. A very good set, a little browning internally, spines renewed.
“Ritson sustained his reputation by his exhaustive work on Robin Hood… Every extant allusion to Robin Hood is printed and explained” (DNB).
Robin Hood (1795)
Author
Joseph Ritson
Publisher
London: Printed For T. Egerton, Whitehall, And J. Johnson
Date
1795