Beverly Nichols — A Book of Old Ballads

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1934. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brightly illustrated selection of English ballads. First edition. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece and fifteen coloured plates, with many in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of English ballads and poems, including: 'The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter,' 'Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne,' 'Sir Lancelot du Lake,' 'Thomas the Rhymer,' and many others. Selected with an introduction by Beverley Nichols, an English playwright and writer. Illustrated by Henry Matthew Brock, a British illustrator and landscape painter. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear to the extremities and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot, predominantly to the first and last few pages. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper dated 1939. Very Good . Ill.: H. M. Brock. Very Good .