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Price: US$190.80 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp. [iv], 184 + frontispiece. Contemporary half red morocco, marbled boards, spine divided by gilt rules, second compartment lettered direct in gilt, other compartments tooled centrally in gilt. A little spotting, some offsetting to title-page. Rubbed, some wear to extremities. A few underlinings and brief marginal notes, bookplate removed from pastedown. The first edition of Leyden?s poem ?notable for combining nostalgia about Scotland's past with anxiety about its future? (ODNB). It also contains some Arthurian elements - in the years prior to its publication Leyden had been assisting Walter Scott?s gathering of folklore for Scott?s Border Minstrelsy of 1802, contributing poems and other material, which may have influenced this work?s mythic bent.
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Leyden, John:. Scenes of Infancy: descriptive of Teviotdale.. Edinburgh, 1803.
Price: US$222.60 + shipping
Description: First edition. Printed by James Ballantyne for Longman and Rees, London; sold by Manners and Miller, and A Constable, Edinburgh. 184pp incl. 35 pages of notes; engraved frontispiece. Bound in non-original, rather worn 19th-century boards. New endpapers. Contents clean and complete. Scarce. [Leyden, 1775-1811, was an eminent literary historian, poet and linguist. He was born at Denholm, Roxburghshire and died in Java].
Seller: Grampian Books PBFA, Est. 1990, ELLON, ABDN, United Kingdom
Price: US$286.21 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 12mo, half-title, engr. frontis., cont. streaked calf, gilt, black leather title label, expertly rebacked. With blurred inscription on title-page. An uncommon title.
Seller: Spike Hughes Rare Books ABA, Innerleithen, United Kingdom
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION. Period calf leather binding that has been recently professionally rebacked with compartmented gilt designs and new red morocco labels. Border of board is tooled and gilt. Marbled edges and marbled endpages. This is bound with another work: Village Scenes, The Progress of Agriculture and other Poems, by T. Bachelor, London: Parnassus Press; for Vernor & Hood, 1804. [10], 137. Overall in EXCELLENT condition. A good gift. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.