Selected Bab ballads. Written and illustrated by W. S. Gilbert. With an introduction by Hesketh Pearson, and a note on Gilbert as illustrator by Philip James

by Gilbert, William Schwenck (1836-1911)

€22 · Offered by MW Books

1955, 1st edition. Oxford: printed for Sir Allen Lane at the University Press. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth; elevated motif to the front board. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.....

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