RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY: CONSISTING OF OLD Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of our earlier Poets, (Chiefly of the Lyric kind.) Together with some few of later Date. The Second Edition. (3 Volumes)

Second Edition. Three Volume Set. 8vo., in full old calf gilt, with raised bands and gilt decorations to spines, gilt line borders and dentelles to covers, marbled endpapers; Vol I: [lxxvi] + 3pp contents + 370pp + 2pp Errata, with engraved frontis. plate and title page, plus head and tail pieces; Vol II: [iii] + 340pp +1pp musical score, with engraved title page and tailpiece to pp340; Vol III: [xxxii] + 358pp + 2pp publisher's list, with engraved title page and tailpiece to pp358. Bookplates of one previous owner to front pastedown of each volume, and to ffep, another's small nameplate to ffep of each volume. Vol I frontis plate has one closed tear and a corner chip, occasional foxing to all volumes, mostly light but heavier in places, wear and scuffing to outer corners and edges of boards, a little loss to spine ends, slight splitting to sides of spines. A Good set overall.