Ballads and Lyrics of Love

Editor Edited with an introduction by Frank Sidgwick British

Illustrator John Byam Liston Shaw British

Publisher Chatto & Windus British

1908

Not on view

pp. i-xvii; pp. 1-178. Green decorative endpapers, binding vellum with gold-stamped ornament. Title page decorated with an image of children ringing bells assisted by Cupid, near a cloaked winged figure), plus ten color illustrations reproducing watercolors by Byam Shaw tipped in.

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Title: Ballads and Lyrics of Love
Editor: Edited with an introduction by Frank Sidgwick (British, 1879–1939)
Illustrator: John Byam Liston Shaw (British, Ferndale, Madras, India, 1872–1919 London)
Publisher: Chatto & Windus (London)
Date: 1908
Medium: Illustrations: photomechanical process, and process printing
Dimensions: 10 1/4 × 7 3/4 × 1 9/16 in. (26 × 19.7 × 3.9 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Object Number: 66.544.8
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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