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Fragments of a Border Ballad

Colophon Press, 2019

Colophon Press
2019
Colophon Press, no. 34 of 120
$340
4to. A–F⁸
Fine, as issued; press's own quarter-vellum binding; signed by the printer.

Set by hand in 16pt Caslon and printed on the shop’s Vandercook proof press, this edition reconstructs a border ballad known only from a damaged nineteenth-century broadside — the gaps in the surviving text are left as gaps on the page rather than editorially filled in.

One hundred and twenty copies were printed and numbered; this is copy 34, bound in the press’s standard quarter-vellum over marbled boards and signed by the printer on the colophon leaf that gives the edition its name.