English Jacobite Ballads, Songs and Satires, Etc: From the Mss; At Towneley Hall, Lancashire (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Editor of Choyce Drollery (1656); Merry Drolleries (1661, 1671, 1691); Westminster Drolleries (1671, 1672); The Bagford Ballads. etc., etc., etc. My Dear Sir, I owe you right hearty thanks for many a mirthful hour, when fagged and worn, from your Drolleries yours in inevitable association for all time many a bright and pleasant hour from your vivid and daintily-wrought original as distinguished from your editorial writing many a happy and transfigured hour from your chatty, over-flowing, matterful letters, and a deepening sense of privilege in forming your personal acquaintance as A uthor, Editor, A rtist, Etcher and Engraver, and generous helper of your fellow-workers. We met in the grand national Library and were mutually taken. I feel sure that the years of the futurefewer or more will bind us closer together by manifold bands. Accept kindly the dedication of this second volume from the Towneley MSS. I inscribe your name in the spirit of the elder Epistle Dedicatory Writers, loving the old ways and the old fervours. t isnt form, but reality with which I rest, My Dear Sir, Yours faithfully, ALEXANDER B. GROSART. St. George s Vestry, Blackburn, 26th December,
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