The Bon Gaultier Ballads

The Bon Gaultier Ballads
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Title: The Bon Gaultier Ballads
Author: William Edmonstoune Aytoun Theodore Martin
Release Date: January 28, 2007 Language: English
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THE BOOK OF BALLADS
EDITED BY
p. ii
BON GAULTIER WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
ILLUSTRATED BY
DOYLE, LEECH, AND CROWQUILL
NEW EDITION
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MCMIV All Rights reserved
p. iii
p. iv
PREFACE.
p. v
A further edition of this book—the sixteenth—having been called for, I have been asked by the publishers to furnish a preface to it. For prefaces I have no love. Books should speak for themselves. Prefaces can scarcely be otherwise than egotistic, and one would not willingly add to the too numerous illustrations of this tendency with which the literature of the day abounds. I would much rather leave the volume with the simple “Envoy” which I wrote for it when the Bon Gaultier Ballads were first gathered into a volume. There the ...