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A Ballad History of England from 1588 to the Present Day

by Palmer, R

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T. Batsford, London, first edition, 1979. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,. 192 pp, ills,. From the blurb: " 'It was in rude rhyme that their love and hatred, their exultation and distress found utterance. A great deal of their history is to be learned from their ballads'. What the historian, Lord Macaulay, wrote of seventeenth-century England is true of the whole of English history. Over the centuries, the ballad singer has fascinated, delighted and disgusted his hearers - as can be seen from this selection of over eighty contemporary ballads which show how ordinary people have reacted to social change and to national events over the last 400 years.The author's historical commentaries and quotations from contemporary writers set the scene for each ballad and explain any otherwise obscure allusions. The book is lavishfy illustrated with contemporary paintings, engravings, woodcuts, ballad sheets, and photographs, and is completed with 50 tunes - for, as a seventeenth-century editor wrote: If thou read these ballads (and not sing them) the poor ballads are undone'. Fine in Very Good dustwrapper.

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Bookseller
Wykeham Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
BIBLIO-14594
Title
A Ballad History of England from 1588 to the Present Day
Author
Palmer, R
Format/Binding
Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,
Book Condition
Used - Fine in Very Good dustwrapper
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
T. Batsford, London, first edition, 1979
Date Published
1979
Pages
192 pp, ills,
Keywords
Ballads, English England History and criticism. Great Britain History 1485- Palmer, Roy 0173469681?

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