THE PLEASANT HISTORY OF FRIER RUSH

ANON and editor not identified.

Published by William Pickering, London, 1828

About this Item

Blue blind-stamped cloth covered boards, slightly flexible but not really limp, gilt title to fr., bright and clean, a touch of slight rubbing to extremities, inevitable given mode of binding. iv + 44; small sig. top outer corner fr. end-paper (end-papers light yellow with blind-stamping showing through to paste-downs), otherwise clean, tight and virtually unworn. Frier Tuck also known as Robin Goodfellow and Puck was a devil, the short anonymous introduction is a scholarly account of origins and bibliographic record of this version of which only two copies are known, one having a 'limited reprint' in 1810. Apparently extremely scarce, no website sale matches for the title located at time of listing. 11.5 cm x 18 cm.

Seller Inventory # 013914

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE PLEASANT HISTORY OF FRIER RUSH
• Publisher: William Pickering, London
• Publication Date: 1828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Thus
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Pre-1850
  • Medieval & Renaissance literature
  • Anthropology, Ethnology & Folklore