Catalogue of the fifty manuscripts & printed books bequeathed to the British museum by Alfred H. Huth.

British Museum

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/2739

Author

Imprint

London: Printed for the Trustees; sold at the British Museum and by Longmans & Co., 39 Paternoster Roy; Bernard Quaritch, 11 Grafton Street, New Bond Street; Asher & Co., 14 Bedford Street, Covent Garden; and Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, Amen Corner, London , 1912

Physical Description

xvi, 130 p., 18 plates ; 39 cm.

General Note

"The introduction and most of the descriptions of the printed books are the work of Mr. A. W. Pollard ... the ballads have been catalogued by Mr. Arundel Esdaile ... The manuscripts have been described by Mr. J. A. Herbert ... and the note on the engravings contained in no. X has been supplied by Mr. Campbell Dodgson." [preface]
Plates and letterpress printed at the University Press, Oxford by Horace Hart [colophon]

Contents

Preface / F.G. Kenyon -- Introduction -- Part I. Manuscripts -- Part II. Printed books -- Part III. Elizabethan ballads -- Indexes: I. General index to manuscripts -- II. Index to subjects of miniatures -- III. Index to printed books -- IV. Index to ballads -- V. Index to the first lines of ballads

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