12mo. With 28 wood engravings in the text. Nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label to spine, gilt; extremities a little rubbed, ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper. 108pp. York, J. Kendrew, 1811.
The story of Robin Hood’s life told in couplets. The author writes in the preface: “Numbers there are who … believe [Robin Hood and Little John] to have existed nowhere else but in the fertile brain of an inventing poet”. The author disagrees with this assessment, and proceeds to give an extremely entertaining retelling of the tale.
Rare. Copac locates four holdings of this edition.
