1841 A Collection of Songs and Ballads, Relative to the London Prentices and Trades; and to the Affairs of London Generally. During the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries.

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First Edition, Very Scarce

The first edition of this very scarce work, rebacked with the original cloth laid down to the boards and the original morocco spine label laid down to the spine. Previous owner's bookplate to the front paste down. A collection of forty-one songs and ballads, relating to the apprentices, trades and general affairs of London. These songs originate from the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth century, and were compiled by the Scottish author, poet and journalist Charles Mackay (1814-1889). This work is now vanishingly scarce.