4 volumes. 384, 364, 364, 367 pp. Engraved frontispiece to volume one. In these volumes is a collection of ballads not found in Percy's "Reliques of Ancient Poetry". Evan's "Ballad's..." originally was published in 1777 then expanded to include others found in old manuscripts and broadsides on 1784 and published again by Evan's son on 1810. William Bulwer, the publisher, had type cast specifically for these volumes. He, with Thomas Bensley brought about the last great innovation of English typography in the age of of handwriting - the abolition of the long s. Each of these volumes has a bookplate of the noted Irish lawyer Gerald Fitzgibbons. He took up writing in later years with the book "Ireland in 1868, the Battlefield and Party Strife".

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