Lot 115: RITSON,

Joseph (editor, 1752-1803). Robin Hood: A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, London: T. Egerton and J. Johnson, 1795. 2 volumes, 8o (192 x 120mm). Half titles, wood-engraved vignettes. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary polished speckled calf, spines elaborately gilt in compartments with red and green morocco lettering-pieces, yellow edges (extremities very lightly rubbed, a few scuff marks). Provenance : Lord W. Kerr (book label). FIRST EDITION. With 20 other works by, or edited by, Joseph Ritson in 29 volumes including A Select Collection of English Songs (London, 1783, 3 vols.) and Ancient English Metrical Romances (London, 1802, 3 vols.), in uniform or near-uniform contemporary calf bindings. (31).