The Ballad Book, A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads by William Allingham [Editor]
1898. Reprinted. 393 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to endpapers and pastedowns and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting and rough cut edges to text block. Boards have visible water stains and rubbing with moderate bumping to corners. Heavier crushing to spine ends and book is forward leaning.