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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...by Englishmen. The plate was engraved by Charles Grignion, or Grignon, a pupil of Gravelot and Le Bas, who, like Wale, was much employed by publishers. Together they illustrated a large number of books; but the charm of their work seems to be chiefly due to Grignion. The vignettes, with the motto Durat Opus Vatum on the title-pages and the head-and tail-pieces, though unsigned, were evidently designed and engraved by the same hands. THOMAS PERCY 107 There are three parts to each volume, and each part begins and ends with a copper-plate engraving illustrative of a ballad. The headpieces refer to the first ballad in the book, but the tail-pieces have legends showing where the poem is found. On page 24 of the second volume, the following note is attached to the poem For the Victory of Agincourt This fong or hymn is given meerly as a curiofity, and is printed from a MS copy in the Pepys collection, vol. I. folio. It is there accompanied with the mufical notes, which are copied in a fmall plate at the end of this volume. A table of Errata for all three volumes, an Advertisement, and a note To the Binder are found at the end of the first volume. The Advertisement reads: The Editor's diflance from the prefe has occafioned fome miflakes and confufion in the Numbers of the feveral Poems, and in the References from one Volume to another: the latter will be fet right by the Table of Errata, and the former by the Tables of Contents. In the Second Volume, page 129 follows page 112: this was merely an overfight in the Printer; nothing is there omitted. The binder finds this caution addressed to him: The Binder is defired to take Notice that the marginal Numbers of the ifl and 3d V...

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