The "Bab" Ballads. Much Sound and Little Sense. by W.S. Gilbert. London, John Camden Hotten, 1869. First edition, illustrated throughout by the author. 8vo, 220pp, plus advertisements. In original publisher's green cloth, decorated & lettered in gilt. Both inner hinges cracked, and beveled edges of boards rubbed. An attractive copy of these charming, satirical, humorous, pre-Sullivan verses.