Oh Waken, Waken Burd Isbel : 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, fine. § A single illustration by Arthur Rackham from the ballad of Young Bekie in Some British Ballads 1919 . The plate shows beautiful Burd Isbel being woken by the household spririt Belly Blin with the news that Bekie, who had promised to marry her if she broke him out of prison, is about to marry another. She goes on to track him down and
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