Young Bekie : from Some British Ballads
$125 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian
London: Constable, 1919. Single offset color print, 5 x 6 inches, tipped to the original captioned buff paper, matted, near fine. § A single illustration by Arthur Rackham from the ballad of Young Bekie in Some British Ballads 1919 . The plate shows young Bekie in prison, swarmed by rats. The ballad tells how he makes and breaks his promise to marry any young woman who rescues him and how his rescuer Burd Isbel tracks him down and holds him to his word. The
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