1856 shops Book - Ballads by William Makepeace Thackeray

Antique Book - Ballads by William Makepeace Thackeray 1856

This classic vintage book Ballads by William Makepeace Thackeray is ready to be given a new home and a new life. Please rescue it from just sitting on a shelf and ignored! Buy it, read it, love it. Excerpt:

"No more, thou lithe and long-winged hawk, of desert-life for thee;
No more across the sultry sands shalt thou go swooping free:
Blunt idle talons, idle beak, with spurning of thy chain,
Shatter against thy cage the wing thou ne'er may'st spread shops again."

Publisher: Boston: Ticknor and Fields
Year: 1856
Condition: Vintage good