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Scott, Walter. Ballads And Lyrical Pieces.. Edinburgh, James Ballantyne And Co.,, 1806.
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Description: Second Edition, H/B with leather spine and worn leather to corners, marbled paper to bds, upper bd detached, contents tight with light age-staining, neat inscript. in pen and ink on front pastedown, also label stating "The County Council of The Parts of Lindsey From the library of Charles Wilmer Foster M.A., Hon.D.Litt, F.S.A. Canon of Lincoln and Vicar of Timberland", on title verso there is a lib. no and check list stamp, at rear evidence of label and lib. docket holder. These Ballads have been already published in different collections. They are now first collected into one Volume. The Songs have been written at different times for the Musical Collections of Mr George Thomson and Mr Whyte.
Seller: Little Owl Books, Norwich, NORFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Contemporary tree calf, gilt. Upper cover and free endpaper detached, lower joint cracked. Second edition, published two months after the first, adding "The Erl-King", pp. 162-4 - "O! who rides by night thro' the woodlands so wild? / It is the fond Father embracing his Child . . ."
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$166.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 4 p.l, 182. with half-title. uncut in original bds. (spine worn & chipped with remains of label, joints cracked, occasional light soiling to margins). Second Edition. Todd 24Ac. NCBEL III 672.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$213.77 + shipping
Description: Provenance; Garburgh Lloyd-Greamer copy with his signature and bookplate. Finely bound in contemporary half aniline calf over marble boards. Gilt-cross bands with a gilt-blocked label. Spine compartments uniformly ruled in gilt. Bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and toned as with age. Scans on request. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 182 pages; Physical description; [8], 182 p. ; 22 cm. With: The vision of Don Roderick, The field of Waterloo, and other poems. Subjects; Scottish poetry - 19th century. Related item; Referenced by: NCBEL 672. Referenced by: Ruff 53. Referenced by: T/B 24Ac. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$244.00 + shipping
Description: Provenance; Garburgh Lloyd-Greamer copy with his signature and bookplate. Finely bound in contemporary half aniline calf over marble boards. Gilt-cross bands with a gilt-blocked label. Spine compartments uniformly ruled in gilt. Bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and toned as with age. Scans on request. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 182 pages; Physical description; [8], 182 p. ; 22 cm. With: The vision of Don Roderick, The field of Waterloo, and other poems. Subjects; Scottish poetry - 19th century. Related item; Referenced by: NCBEL 672. Referenced by: Ruff 53. Referenced by: T/B 24Ac. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$365.05 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A uniformly bound collection of works by Sir Walter Scott. Containing Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads (third edition, 1806, James Ballantyne and Co, complete in three volumes), Sir Tristrem A Metrical Romance of the Thirteenth Century by Thomas of Erceldoune Called The Rhymer (second edition, 1806, Archibald Constable and Co.), The Lay of the Last Minstrel (tenth edition, 1809, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme) and Ballads and Lyrical Pieces (1806, James Ballantyne and Co for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme), Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field (fourth edition, 1808, J. Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company), and Rokeby (fourth edition, 1813, John Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown). "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" (1805) is a long narrative poem by Walter Scott. The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border is a collection of Border ballads compiled by Walter Scott, first published in three volumes in 1802 and 1803. Rokeby (1813) is a narrative poem in six cantos by Walter Scott. It is set in Teesdale during the English Civil War. Marmion is an epic poem by Walter Scott about the Battle of Flodden Field (1513). It was published in 1808. Bookplate of John Russell to front pastedowns. In red straight-grained morocco bindings with gilt detailing. Externally sound, though rubbed, and with some marks. Four hinges strained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are quite bright, though with some scattered spotting throughout. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [10], 180, [2] pages. Marbled boards and endpapers. Leather spine with gilt. Some foxing noted. Cover has some wear, especially at corners, and soiling. Rare 1st book appearance of Scott's poetry together. This is the first one volume edition of any of his work. Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. Advertisement statement: These Ballads have been already published in different collections, dome in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, others in the Tales of Wonder, and some of both these Miscellanies. They are now first collection into one Volume. The Songs have been written at different times for the Musical Collections of Mr George Thomson and Mr Whyte. He earlier published an idiosyncratic three-volume set of collected ballads of his adopted home region, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. This was the first sign from a literary standpoint of his interest in Scottish history. ?Glenfinlas; or, Lord Ronald's Coronach? by Walter Scott, written in 1798 and first published in 1800, was, as Scott remembered it, his first original poem as opposed to translations from the German. A short narrative of 264 lines, it tells a supernatural story based on a Highland legend. Though highly appreciated by many 19th century readers and critics it is now overshadowed by his later and longer poems. Other entries are: The Eve of Saint John, Cadyow Castle, The Grey Brother, Thomas the Rhymer, The Fire King, Frederick and Alice, The Wild Huntsman, War Song, The Norman Horse-Shoe, The Dying Bard, The Maid of Toro, and Hellvellyn. As a boy, youth, and young man, Scott was fascinated by the oral traditions of the Scottish Borders. He was an obsessive collector of stories, and developed an innovative method of recording what he heard at the feet of local story-tellers using carvings on twigs, to avoid the disapproval of those who believed that such stories were neither for writing down nor for printing.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.