The Roxburghe Ballads (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Roxburghe Ballads The Roxburghe Collection of Ballads was formed 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 of 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, but he raised a far more enduring memorial for himself in the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts, which was also formed by him, and is now one of the greatest treasures in the British Museum. John Bagford, the antiquary, was one of the buyers employed by the Earl of Oxford, and he is the reputed collector of the ballads. Bagford´s own tastes ran somewhat in that direction. Three volumes of ballads were collected by him for his own library, and to be utilized in his projected History of Printing. These are also in the library of the British Museum. When the printed books collected by the Earl of Oxford were dispersed, the ballads were bought by James West, President of the Royal Society. 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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