The English archer, or, Robert, Earl of Huntington, vulgarly call'd, Robin Hood.
1720
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Title
The English archer, or, Robert, Earl of Huntington, vulgarly call'd, Robin Hood.
Uniform title
Robin Hood's garland.
Created/published
[London?] : [s.n.], [1720?]
Description
[2+] p. : ill. ; 16 cm (16mo?)
Associated name
Note
A collection of songs, also published as 'Robin Hood's garland'; a chapbook.
Description based on severely imperfect copy, consisting of the title leaf only. Woodcut on title page measuring 60 x 75 mm, depicting an archer, on left facing viewer's right, arrow pointing upward and ready to be released. The title page poem, beginning "I'll send this arrow from my bow," contains the line "It were for fifteen hundred pound" rather than the more usual "It were for forty hundred pound." Caption on verso: "To all gentlemen archers"; advertisement for The illustrious and renown'd history of the seven champions of Christendom. Horizontal chain lines.
Cannot identify with any other edition, although it is very similar to the title page of ESTC N30877, dated [1720?], the latter distinguished by "Huntingdon" and "forty hundred pound" in poem. Publication date further based on contemporary ms. date "1720" in Folger Shakespeare Library copy.
Description based on severely imperfect copy, consisting of the title leaf only. Woodcut on title page measuring 60 x 75 mm, depicting an archer, on left facing viewer's right, arrow pointing upward and ready to be released. The title page poem, beginning "I'll send this arrow from my bow," contains the line "It were for fifteen hundred pound" rather than the more usual "It were for forty hundred pound." Caption on verso: "To all gentlemen archers"; advertisement for The illustrious and renown'd history of the seven champions of Christendom. Horizontal chain lines.
Cannot identify with any other edition, although it is very similar to the title page of ESTC N30877, dated [1720?], the latter distinguished by "Huntingdon" and "forty hundred pound" in poem. Publication date further based on contemporary ms. date "1720" in Folger Shakespeare Library copy.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), N493116
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
PR2125 .R6 item 2 Cage
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: title page only. Autograph: Wm. Stukeley, 1720. Anonymous armorial bookplate (motto: Data fata secutus); tiny bookplate: St. John. In an interleaved, extra-illustrated, and heavily annotated volume, including ink drawings, a folded sheet containing the "pedigree of Robin Hood," printed material cut out and pasted in, including early prints. Bound in leather (sheep?) with gold filleting, with: a leaf signed 'A2' from an unidentified edition containing The preface to the reader (not separately cataloged); (item 1) title leaf of Robin Hood's garland. Northampton : Printed by William Dicey, [1720?]; (item 3) Robin Hood's garland. London : Printed by T. Norris ... and sold by J. Walter ...; and (item 4) A true tale of Robin Hood. London : Printed and sold in Bow Church-yard, [1720?]. Owned by Mr and Mrs Folger.
Folger accession
cs1298