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    By Richard Leighton Greene [editor]
    Oxford   Oxford at the Clarendon Press
    9.5" by 6.5" cxlv, 461pp.
    A smart first edition of this very scarce work on the early English carols.
    By Richard Leighton Greene [editor]

    1935 The Early English Carols

    Oxford   Oxford at the Clarendon Press
    9.5" by 6.5" cxlv, 461pp.
    A smart first edition of this very scarce work on the early English carols.
    £49.00
    : 1kgs / : 932T7
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    Description

    First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

    First edition. Very scarce work. With a frontispiece. A detailed study of the early English carols, with many of the original texts recorded as well as fragments of texts likely in carol form. With chapters on the carol as a genre, the carol as a dance-song, the carol as a popular song, the carol and popular religion, and the burdens of carols. Written by Richard Leighton Greene, an American literary scholar and musicologist.

    Condition

    In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities and light fading to the spine and board edges. Rear hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light age toning to the extremities and endpapers.

    Very Good

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