These may be of interest to anyone who likes antique books or Victoriana (sorry, I don't know which ballads are included):


British Ballads Illustrated by Arthur Rackham £125

http://www.modernfirsteditions.com/product/somebritishball230296180.html

170 pages The blue cloth bound edition of Arthur Rackham's illustrated edition of Some British Ballads. Sixteen tipped in coloured plates with tissue guards. A little fading to the spine and foxing to the endpapers, otherwise a very good copy.


Scottish Keepsake Album c 1850 £125

http://www.modernfirsteditions.com/buy/scottishkeepsak33796320.html

A handmade album of tinted views of Cumbria and Scotland from the mid-victorian period. The compiler has handsewn two embossed sheets of card with decorative pink ribbon flourishes to form the binding of the album. This front and rear covers are decorated with two pencil drawings of Holyrood Chapel. Internally there are ten pages of images, each card stitched to the card page with red thread, moving from Cumbria into the Scottish Highlands with a final section on Edinburgh. There is no hint as to ownership or whether this was the work of a tourist or a Scot.


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