Ancient songs, chiefly on Moorish subjects

Ancient songs, chiefly on Moorish subjects
Thomas Percy, Thomas Percy
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Ancient songs, chiefly on Moorish subjects
1932, Printed by J. Johnson for H. Milford at the Oxford university press, London
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Table of Contents

El armamento del Moro. The Moor's equipment.
El moro alcayde. The Moor alcaidy.
La venganc̜a del Moro. The Moor's revenge.
Rio verde, rio verde. Gentle river, gentle river.
Alcanzor and Zayda.
The Moorish bull feast.
El marinero de amor. The mariner of love.
Notes.

Edition Notes

"Alcanzor and Zayda" and "The Moorish bull feast", included also in Percy's "Reliques", are in English only; the other ballads are in Spanish and English.
"250 copies have been printed, of which 230 copies are for sale. This is no. 73."
This work was to have been published by S. Leacroft, London, in 1775. "[Percy] procured designs for an engraved title-page and for a frontispiece, as well as smaller illustrations; and he saw most of the text in proof. Why the book was not completed we can only surmise." cf. p. [v]-vi.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
861.04
Library of Congress
PQ6287.E4 B28 1932

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 56 p., 2 l.
Number of pages
56

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6292956M
LCCN
33021123
OCLC/WorldCat
3444277

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL4840645W

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