John Pitts: Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844, with a short account of his predecessors in the Ballad & Chapbook Trade.
John Pitts: Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844, with a short account of his predecessors in the Ballad & Chapbook Trade. | Rare and modern books | Shepard, Leslie
Rare and modern books
Shepard, Leslie
Private Libraries Association,
1969
John Pitts: Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844, with a short account of his predecessors in the Ballad & Chapbook Trade.
John Pitts: Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844, with a short account of his predecessors in the Ballad & Chapbook Trade. | Rare and modern books | Shepard, Leslie
Rare and modern books
Shepard, Leslie
Private Libraries Association,
1969
14.00 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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- PayPal
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- Carta del Docente
Details
- Year of publication
- 1969
- ISBN
- 0900002204
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Shepard, Leslie
- Publishers
- Private Libraries Association
- Size
- 10 x 6.25 inches
- Edition
- First Edition
- Keyword
- Printing, Songs, Social History
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- True
Description
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, black/gold motif and lettering and no bumping to corners. Glassine dust jacket in very good condition. 160pp. The story of printer of ballads, John Pitts and his chief competitor James Catnatch in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who printed traditional ballads. Also covers similar activites both before their time and afterwards. Illustrated. Limited Edition of 1600 copies.
