Nineteenth-century fiction.

[Baring-Gould, Sabine.] The Gaverocks. A Tale of the Cornish Coast. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1887, 3 volumes, original red-brown diagonal fine-ribbed cloth blocked and lettered in black and gilt, half-titles, floral endpapers [Wolff 262; not in Sadleir], slight wear to binding, offsetting to endpapers--[Hodges, Sydney, "Stanley Hope".] A New Godiva. London: Richard Bentley and son, 1876, advertisements at the end of  volume 3, original olive-green cloth decorated in blind, spines gilt, [Wolff 3225; not in Sadleir], minor edge wear--Elliot, Robert H. Written on their Foreheads. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1879, 2 volumes, half-titles, appendix at the end, original brown cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt [Wolff 2075; not in Sadleir], hinges repaired and cracked, minor staining to covers--Farmlet, Charles. Fair in the Fearless Old Fashion. London: Samuel Tinsley, 1875, 2 volumes, half-title in volume 1, original olive-green pebble-grain cloth blocked and lettered in black and gilt, [Wolff 2153; not in Sadleir], ownership signature of Marie Lloyd, some spotting; 8vo (10)

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The first work is one of the rarer West Country novels by the Devonian folk song collector, antiquarian  and scholar Sabine Baring-Gould, also a writer of famous hymns such as "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day is Over". In 2011 the complete collection of his celebrated folk song manuscripts were digitized and published online by the Devon Tradition Project in association with the English Folk Dance and Song Society.