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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. 1971 reprint of the 1922 original. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1971. A beautiful, pristine HARDCOVER copy in perfect condition. Brand New. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1971 reprint of the 1922 original. A total of 80 old broadside ballads are here reproduced. With a 17-page preface (historical background) by the editor. Also has A NOTE ON BROADSIDE TUNES by Claude M. Simpson, Jr. Illustrated with 26 old woodcuts from the broadsides. From the preface: "GARLAND reprints the most interesting seventeenth century ballads in Pepys's first volume, none of a later date than 1639, and to them adds from other sources six or seven early ballads in which Pepys himself would have revelled." Index of titles, first lines, and tunes. Glossarial index. Bound in the original brick red cloth, stamped in shiny gold. 1971 reprint of the 1922 original. Hardcover. New/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xxxvi, 491pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. Seller Inventory # 017279