Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge: II.I. Ballads, Catalogue

By Pepys Library and N.A. Smith

Full bibliographical information on Pepys's outstanding ballad collection.

Pepys' ballad collection is the largest surviving collection of English ballads printed in London in the seventeenth century, and is an outstanding source for English popular culture of the period. collection, already available infacsimile form, are now properly accessible. Ballads: i. Catalogue provides a full bibliographical history of each ballad; ii. Indexes and Listsorganises and presents information on the ballads, classified as titles, tunes, music, first lines, refrains, authors, licenses, printers/publishers/imprints, and watermarks.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859913155
• ISBN13: 9780859913157
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 494 Pages