Featuring illustrations by Gordon Browne.

The authentic tales of the immortal outlaw hero…
Featuring illustrations by Gordon Browne.
The original English poems, songs and ballads as collected by Joseph Ritson.
THE VINTAGE ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF 1884!
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LEGENDS OF ROBIN HOOD is available only from
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Dear Reader,
R
obin Hood is one of the great icons of popular
culture, the subject of countless novels, stories, songs,
movies, plays, comic books and even video games.
But the medieval folk legend owes his modern fame to one
man and one book: Joseph Ritson’s 1795 Robin Hood: A Collection
of all the Ancient Poems, Songs and Ballads. An astonishing achievement of research and imagination, Ritson’s book is the source
and inspiration for all subsequent adaptations of the story, and
remains definitive.
Now, Easton Press is proud to present THE ORIGINAL
LEGENDS OF ROBIN HOOD, an exclusive leather-bound
Collector Edition vintage re-creation of the deluxe 1884 edition
of Joseph Ritson’s masterpiece, complete with all the original
illustrations by Gordon Browne.
THE AUTHENTIC TALES OF THE OUTLAW ROBIN HOOD.
At a time when no one took Robin Hood seriously, Joseph Ritson
devoted years to collecting ancient Robin Hood ballads, songs, poems
and histories, ultimately discovering almost every surviving written work
about, or reference to, the outlaw.
Ritson’s Robin Hood made the outlaw intellectually and socially significant but the book didn’t only document the Robin Hood legend — it
became part of the legend. Treating Robin Hood as a historical figure,
Ritson transformed the folk figure into a heroic champion of the common people against the forces of tyranny.
A hugely popular best-seller, Ritson’s Robin Hood was published in
many editions — but none so beautiful as the1884 edition illustrated
by Gordon Browne, a pre-eminent illustrator of the late Victorian era
and the son of Hablot Knight Browne, better known as “Phiz,” the
legendary illustrator of Charles Dickens’ stories and novels.
THE ORIGINAL LEGENDS OF ROBIN HOOD is a
deluxe reproduction of that 1884 edition complete with all of
Joseph Ritson’s collected tales and commentary and all 32 of
Gordon Browne’s original watercolor and pen & ink illustrations.
A CLASSIC ILLUSTRATED BOOK IN A
MAGNIFICENT COLLECTOR EDITION.
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Easton Press has re-created the beautiful 1884 THE ORIGINAL
LEGENDS OF ROBIN HOOD as an Easton Press Collector
Edition — the state-of-the-art in fine heirloom quality bookmaking.
The binding is of premium leather with a traditional “hubbed”
spine and precious 22kt gold inlays. Moiré fabric endsheets,
gilded pages and heavy-duty binding boards further enhance the
volume’s beauty and strength.
The vintage text and illustrations are printed on archival-quality
paper that will not yellow or fade with age, and the pages are
Smyth-sewn (not merely glued as with ordinary books) into the
binding to provide both more comfortable reading and greater
longevity.
And each Collector Edition volume comes with a custom-crafted
slipcase in which to store and display this beautiful illustrated book.
The work of uniquely skilled American master craftsmen with
an uncompromising commitment to excellence, the Easton Press
Collector Edition THE ORIGINAL LEGENDS OF ROBIN
HOOD is an essential volume for any fan of the outlaw of
Sherwood Forest.
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