Ballads of Affection

BUCHANAN, Robert.  BALLAD STORIES OF THE AFFECTIONS.

London: George Routledge, (1866). Large 8vo. Publisher's decorated cloth. xiv, 174, (2) pages. First edition.

Gleeson White in his book, English Illustration, The Sixties, 1855-70, states tha this work "contains some singularly fine examples of the work of G.J. Pinwell, W. Small, A.B. Houghton, E. Dalziel, T. Dalziel, J. Lawson, and J.D. Watson....Indeed the thirty-four illustrations are all good, and the book is decidedly one of the most interesting volumes of the period."  White regarded it as rare in 1897.  The bookbinding was designed by Albert Warren (see King, 746), signed with a "W" in the design on the spine.  This copy with a bookseller's ticket, William Mullan, Belfast.  Inscription on front blank, gilt on cover ever so slightly faded.

$385.00