Coffin, Tristram Potter - The British Traditional Ballad in North America

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American Folklore Society, 1963. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for faint remains of penciled note at first free endpaper. From the publisher's blurb of a later edition, "Tristram Potter Coffin's The British Traditional Ballad in North America, published in 1950, became recognized as the standard reference to the published material on the Child ballad in North America. Centering on the theme of story variation, the book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide." Contains an Introduction to the Revised Edition, a description o fthe variations in traditional ballads, a bibliographical guide to sources, the traditional ballad as an art form, a general bibliography and an index to the ballads discussed. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvii , 1-186 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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