The Roxburghe Ballads, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Roxburghe Ballads, Vol. 1 "I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716). The Collection of Ancient Songs and Ballads, written on various subjects, and printed between the year MDLX. and MDCC., and now known as the Roxburghe Ballads, consists of three large volumes in folio, and embraces above thirteen hundred broadsides mostly in Black Letter, and are, with but few exceptions, all in a very good state of preservation. There are several ballads, of which there are duplicates - and even triplicates, of considerable later dates than the original © and into the edition or editions of later date are inserted lines and stanzas not found in the older impressions, but inserted by some subsequent ballad-writer or printer for the purpose of noticing or satirizing, a custom or peculiarity of the day when the reprint was published. The Collection was commenced by Robert Harley, who was the eldest son of Sir Edward Harley, and was born in 1661, in Bow Street, Covent Garden, then a fashionable quarter in London. He was advanced to the peerage of Great Britain by Queen Anne in 1711, as Baron Harley, of Wigmore, in the County of Hereford, Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer, and after a busy and chequered political life, spent the remaining portion in retirement, associating with scholars and men of taste, and so became the founder of a large collection of scarce, curious and entertaining pamphlets and tracts, subsequently collected and published as "The Harleian Miscellany." And also of an extensive collection of MSS., which now forms one of the greatest treasures in the British Museum, and well known to every lover of literature as the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts, a catalogue of which was arranged and published by H. Wanley, London, 1759-63, folio, 2 vols., with portraits of Robert and Edward Harley. Earls of Oxford. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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