A Ballad By The Revd. Reginald Heber, Late Bishop Of Calcutta: An Old and Approved Receipt for Raising the Devil founded on Tradition and now Offered to the Public by An Amateur of The Black Art

Chester: W. Crane. Paperback. Good. Undated paperback edition, c.1830s - Reginald Heber died in 1826 and W. Crane, publisher, was active in Chester between 1830 and 1842. In overall good-to-very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - covers rubbed and darkened with cup-rings to front. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and excellent lithographic illustrations (with tissue-paper guards) particularly bright and clear throughout. An unusually gruesome poem about Llewellyn of Dinas Bran, Llangollen, by the late Bishop of Calcutta, more usually know for his famous hymns; and graphically illustrated, probably by one of the brothers William or Thomas Crane, who worked together as T. & W. Crane in Chester in the 1830s as lithographers, artists, cartographers and engravers (Thomas Crane the father of Walter Crane, the famous artist). A scare item. Not an old library book.