Illustrated British Ballads, old and new. Selected and edited by G. B. Smith
An anthology of traditional and modern British ballads selected and edited by George Barnett Smith, published in London in 1886 for Victorian family and school reading. The wood-engraved plates stage ballad scenes outdoors u2014armed men on a shore, women fleeing across a wooded hillside, crowds with pikes and shields u2014with quoted couplets set beneath ruled frames, plus decorated initials holding small landscape vignettes.
