Front cover image for Ancient mysteries described : especially the English miracle plays, founded on apocryphal New Testament story, extant among the unpublished manuscripts in the British Museum : including notices of ecclesiastical shows, the festival of fools and asses, the English boy bishop, the descent into hell, the lord mayor's show, the guild hall giants, Christmas carols, &c.

Ancient mysteries described : especially the English miracle plays, founded on apocryphal New Testament story, extant among the unpublished manuscripts in the British Museum : including notices of ecclesiastical shows, the festival of fools and asses, the English boy bishop, the descent into hell, the lord mayor's show, the guild hall giants, Christmas carols, &c.

William Hone, George Cruikshank (Illustrator)
eBook, English, 1823
Printed for William Hone, 45, Ludgate Hill, London, 1823
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource ([2], x, [11]-299, [1] pages, [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations
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Includes two plates by George Cruikshank
This is a later reprint (1860?) dated 1823, which Cohn calls valueless
Bound in printed publisher's boards