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THE BALLAD

OF

EDWIN AND EMMA.

BY DAVID MALLET.

A New Edition,

WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

BY

FREDERICK T. DINSDALE, Esq. LL.D. F.S.A.

"And some have died for love."-ARMSTRONG.

LONDON:

GEORGE BELL, FLEET STREET.

MATTHEW BELL, T. AND A. BOWMAN, RICHMOND ;
JOHN ATKINSON, BARNARD CASTLE.

MDCCCXLIX.

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"*** Mr. Dinsdale has now expended upon this work all the riches of literary, local, and biographical illustration. The extent of the collections comprised in his Notes will be scarcely imagined until they are seen. They consist of a life of Mallet; of the criticisms of distinguished judges (from which we have quoted those of Scott and Leigh Hunt); of bibliographical and literary notes (of which also we have stated the most important particulars); genealogical tables of the Wrightsons and Railtons, the Montacutes and Capulets of this village tragedy, and of several other families more or less connected with the tale or the locality, accompanied by wills and deeds; and, added to all this, descriptions of the castle and church of Bowes, and a map, which, it may be remarked, comprises in its area the scenery of Sir Walter Scott's poem of Rokeby; and will make this little book a useful as well as amusing companion to the tourist in that picturesque neighbourhood."-Gentleman's Magazine.

"This volume is a curious instance of the effect of early association. Early knowledge, and the genius loci, have left an impression upon the editor's mind, which has produced this very completely illustrated edition."-Spectator.

"This has surely been a labour of local love, and crowns the several recent notices that have appeared in the Gazette on the subject. . . . If the editor had had the succession to an estate in view, he could not have taken more pains, nor displayed greater devotedness; and his little volume well merits a place among all poetical collections."-Literary Gazette.

"The well-known ballad of Edwin and Emma,' from the pen of Mallet, is not only re-edited in this neat little volume, but copiously illustrated by the facts of the original story, which the editor has been at the pains of collecting together. Besides a brief narrative of the affecting history of the two lovers, a variety of documents, connected with them and their families, are appended."John Bull.

"The editor has gone to work in his full and curious Notes and Illustrations' in a spirit which would have delighted Joseph Ritson or Jonathan Oldbuck. Nothing escapes him. He writes in a scholarly spirit, which gives

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"The author is not likely to find his antiquarian sympathies in this matter appreciated to any very great extent; nor will the impulse be easily understood that has prompted him to investigate, with such an obvious amount of minute and unwearying labour, the stray and official records of an obscure village, and evolve the history and pedigrees of the Railton and Wrightson families, from whom the Edwin and Emma' poem sprung; but the reward, no doubt, has been in the toil."-Morning Herald.

"The present edition combines much that will be found to enhance the value of the original, and to interest the feelings of the general reader. .. We consider this publication as an interesting addition to our local literature, and as highly creditable to the editor, who has evidently devoted to it much time and literary talent."-York Herald.

"Some people may naturally enough remark, upon perusing this little volume, that had its intrinsic merit been as great as that of a production of Eschylus, it could not have been more painfully laboured, nor more carefully edited. It is deficient in nothing calculated to throw light on the poem. In the neighbourhood for which it is primarily designed, we can imagine it will become a sort of hand-book, but every where it will be acceptable."-Durham Advertiser. "The present edition is valuable, and will be acceptable to its admirers on account of the amount of information it affords as to the parties whose melancholy story is so affectingly told by Mallet. We cordially recommend this

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"The aim of the editor in this edition, as he states in his preface, has been to collect all that could be found illustrative of the ballad; and we have pleasure in informing our readers, that the result of his labour and research forms a very interesting little volume. Great pains have evidently been taken to render the present edition interesting and acceptable."-Darlington Times.

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