The merry adventures of Robin Hood : of great renown, in Nottinghamshire

The merry adventures of Robin Hood : of great renown, in Nottinghamshire. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. First published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons on October 23, 1883. Frontispiece and 22 leaves of plates included in pagination. Includes some songs and ballads, and Robin Hood's epitaph (in gothic script). Inscribed by the author: ''A man's first book will always occupy a place in his heart that none other can fill. Into this work is interwoven the singing of song-sparrows and robins and the smell of growing things, for it was finished in the prime sweetness of the spring time. Howard Pyle... August 27, 1896''.