THOMAS WRIGHT (Ed. and Trans)

BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA THE POLITICAL SONGS OF ENGLAND, FROM THE REIGN OF JOHN TO THAT OF EDWARD II

Publisher: Privately Published, EDINBURGH, 1884
Vol II & IV, 83, 66 pp. bound in marbled quarter leather, gilt title to spine. ca. 225x145 mm

VG condition.

Edition limited to seventy five large paper copies and 275 small paper copies issued to subscribers. Revised by Edmund Goldsmid and printed on hand made paper. 

contains songs (poetry) of political nature of the day with commentary on the Battle of Lewes, The divisions among the Barons and Simon de Montfort etc.