170 pp. 16 tipped-in color plates; printed tissue guards. (4to) 11¼x8½", original vellum-backed tan boards with gilt titles and decoration, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. First Edition, No. 561 of an edition limited to 575 signed copies.
Signed by Rackham on the limitation page. Latimore & Haskell, p. 50. Several of the ballads are based on the great work of Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, first published in 1882.