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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Subscriber's Limited edition, hand-numbered 469 and signed by the author and editor.Endpaper maps of Sherwood Forest. Near-fine hardback copy. The dust jacket has a faded spine, price-clipped jacket, but is generally Near-fine. Signed by Author(s).…

12mo, pp. 38, [8]; 1-168, 145-180, 169-180, 193-'238' [i.e. 255], [1] blank; [iv], 56; contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked. First edition. A collection of Whig ballads, satirically dedicated 'to the Jacobitical Tories, and traiterous rioters of Great Britain'. The dedication is signed, 'Your merry physician, Philopat'. Many of the ballads in this volume express the sense of jubilation felt by the Whigs upon the accession of George I; a good number of them had already appeared as broadsides. The collection is in three parts, and Part III has its own title-page, with the imprint dated 1715. There was also a supplement to the third part (pp. 57-80), but as in most copies, it is not present here. Samuel Keimer had an unusual history: in 1722 he emigrated to Philadelphia, where in 1723 he took the young Benjamin Franklin, just arrived in the town, into his employment. Keimer went bankrupt in 1729 and emigrated to Barbados, and died there in about 1739. Case 280 (1, 2 and 3) wrongly states that the supplement has an additional table of contents to Parts I-II; in fact this table of contents is present here, at the end of Part I.…