Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Catalogue of an Unique Collection of Ancient English Broadside Ballads: Printed Entirely in the Black Letter
Ral were much earlier and better copies, while others were different editions of the fame ballad, often with different woodcuts. It is very rarely that two early black-letter ballads occur as per fect duplicates. Many editions of each were generally printed, and they are all difiinguilhed by peculiarities worthy of notice. A few fpe cimens of different editions of the fame ballad will be found in the following collection.
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