Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Originally bound in brown morocco leather with marbled endpapers. Three titles bound in one volume: (1) GLENFINLAS AND OTHER BALLADS, with a title page showing the publisher as John Sharpe, London, 1812. This title page is immediately followed by a second title page for BALLADS AND LYRICAL PIECES, showing the publisher as James Ballantyne & Co., Edinburgh, 1812, Fourth Edition. Probably Ballantyne used the English sheets for this collection, the pagination for which is pp. [viii], 182. Then follows a second Ballantyne publication, THE VISION OF DON RODERICK AND OTHER POEMS, identified on the title page for this collection as the Second Edition, 1810; and the pagination for which is pp. [11], 164 (followed by three pages of publisher's ads). There are many pages of notes at the end of DON RODERICK, and the Miscellaneous Poems. The third title bound-in is THE FIELD OF WATERLOO; A POEM, also published by Ballantyne, and shown as the Second Edition, 1815. The pagination for this is pp. [187-193], 240 (i.e., 54 pages in total, including notes and a listing of Scott's works at the end). This compilation was originally bound in full morocco, with marbled foredges and endpapers. The boards are now detached (but present). The leather spine is absent. The contents are occasionally foxed, but generally clean and unmarked. The binding is still tight. Obviously, this volume is a candidate for re-backing, or re-binding, and has been priced accordingly. With six steel engravings, engraved from the designs of Rochard Westall, R.A.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Price: US$46.78 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: second edition 1811 longman on worn black leather boards rubbing and markings raised bars to psine gilt borders and quarter fan gilt motifs to frontis - page opp. title removed
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.98 + shipping
Description: , 264 pages Reprint , rebacked with matching calf, corners a little scuffed, contemporary owner's bookplate on front pastedown, hinges reinforced, occasional faint spots otherwise internally clean, book in very good condition , full speckled tan calf with decorative gilt border, gilt titles and decoration to spine Octavo Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Scott, Walter. Field of Waterloo: A Poem. James Ballantyne, Edinburgh, 1815.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: Good with small chips in spine and rubbed and slightly yellowed edges. A half-inch is cut away from head of title page, not affecting text, with soft indentation from blade on next page and evidence of a paperclip. Lightly discolored endsheets
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.77 + shipping
Description: Half title, final ad. leaf. Disbound. Todd & Bowden 84Ab. Paginated (viii), 193-240, this was separately issued, but also added to Ballads & Lyrical Pieces, 4th edn.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.77 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Half title. Disbound. Todd & Bowden 84Aa; without final ad. leaf.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$97.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very smart copy of an early edition of Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott's poem, celebrating the Duke of Wellington. The third edition of 'Don Roderick', but the first edition of Scott's work to feature this combination of poems.'The Vision of Don Roderick', first published in 1811, is a poem celebrating the victories of the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War. It is based on a historic account of the consultation of an oracle by the last Visigothic King of Spain, Roderic. It's a long work, written in Spenserian stanzas.Also present in this collection are a number of miscellaneous poems, including 'Wandering Willie', 'The Bard's Incantation' and 'The Dance of Death'. In a half calf binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, very smart, with slight discolouration to back strip. Front hinge strained to tail, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with light instances of spotting throughout, most concentrated to first and last few leaves. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Scott, Sir Walter. Marmion: A Tale Of The Flodden Field.. John Ballantyne and Co, Edinburgh, 1815.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: This is the Ninth Edition, but bound with the title page and the 6 engravings of the 1809 First Illustrated English Edition. The inside front board has the armorial bookplate of the Bayning peerage, which went extinct in 1866; and I think it is safe to assume that this lovely binding is roughly comtemporary with the book's publication. The binding is a bit worn at the top of the spine, but otherwise very attractive, and somewhat unusual in design, although unsigned. In addition, there is a 1972 inscription on the ffep presenting to the book to the famed San Francisco attorney Melvin Belli by a former employee. (The book was found in Belli's former home in San Francisco.) There is light foxing to the borders of the plares, but the text is clean. All in all, a most intriquing volume.
Seller: Recycled, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$133.65 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in the oringinal full aniline calf. Professionally and period-sympathetically rebacked with a matching brown leather gilt-blocked label. Raised bands and spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt and raised bands; very impressively finished. Marble endpapers. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Some scattered foxing to plates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 506 pages; Physical desc.: [10], 506 p. : plates ; 22 cm. Subjects: Poems - Scotland - 1815. Referenced by: NCBEL, 672. Referenced by: Ruff, 70. Referenced by: T/B, 28Al. Referenced by: T/B, 260Ad3. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Author's notes. Half title page. Contemporary 1/2 tan morocco over marbled gray boards (the spine now mostly covered with old tan paper). Very good. 56 pages (includes 2 pages of advertisements at end). Large bookplate on the front pastedown. With signature of Willm Paterson, 24 June, 1818 on the title page. Scott's celebration of Napoleon's defeat, dedicated to the Duchess of Wellington. The poem went through 3 editions in the first year of publication, as well as printings in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Paris in the same Year. Todd 84 Aa.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 54pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Van Antwerp 15; Ruff 147; Tinker 1871 Later darb boards. Bookplate of Frasier W. McCann
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$154.00 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in the oringinal full aniline calf. Professionally and period-sympathetically rebacked with a matching brown leather gilt-blocked label. Raised bands and spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt and raised bands; very impressively finished. Marble endpapers. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Some scattered foxing to plates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 506 pages; Physical desc.: [10], 506 p. : plates ; 22 cm. Subjects: Poems - Scotland - 1815. Referenced by: NCBEL, 672. Referenced by: Ruff, 70. Referenced by: T/B, 28Al. Referenced by: T/B, 260Ad3. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$171.54 + shipping
Description: Additional engr. title & six plates by Westall with sl. browning. Contemp. full diced calf, gilt spine, borders. Armorial bookplate of Sarah Phillott. v.g. Todd & Bowden 59Ai & 341D. The third edition of The Vision of Don Roderick, but the first edition of this collection. The seven engravings from designs by Richard Westall were published in 1812 by John Sharpe, Piccadilly. They appeared as Glenfinlas, and other ballads. with The Vision of Don Roderick.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$194.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition with half title and advertisements. Written "for the purpose of assisting the Waterloo Subscription." Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and John Murray, London. 56, 4, [2] p.; 23 cm. Original plain wrapper; pages are untrimmed. Advertisements of printer and publishers on 7 pages following text. Pages 55-56 contain Ballantyne's list of Works of Walter Scott, Esq. The following 2 pages contain an advertisement for The Works of Jonathan Swift with notes and a life of the author by Walter Scott. The next 2 pages contain an advertisement, dated Sept. 1815, for vol. 1, part 1, of the supplement to the 4th and 5th editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The final unpaginated page contains proposals for publishing prints by Richard Sasse of the Battle of Waterloo and the defence of Hougoumont. Former owner's name inscribed on front fixed endpaper: "Wm. Dallas." In Good Condition: wrapper is stained, chipped, and separated along spine; stain at lower pages edges, which are chipped; light soiling at page edges.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, with half-title. 56, [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Todd & Bowden 84Aa; Van Antwerp 15; Ruff 147; Tinker 1871 Original drab wrappers, uncut. Spine slightly worn. Near fine copy
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 54pp. Portrait of Napoleon inserted from another book. 1 vols. 8vo. Van Antwerp 15; Ruff 147; Tinkerf 1871 Later three quarter crimson morocco and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine 54pp. Portrait of Napoleon inserted from another book. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$299.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 264 pp + 188 pp + 79 pp + 67 pp 167 pp. With title pages for each poem. Lord Byron's poems, Werner and The Island,are dated 1823 (there is also bound in somewhat different paper Rev. W.L. Bowles' Two Letters to Lord Byron). Werner is the 2nd state with "the end" at page 188 and publisher's information, The Island is stated 2nd edition. Leather spine with gilt decorations, tooling in the bands, says "Scott's Vision, Byron's Werner, the Island; Bowles Letters, Millman's Fall of Jerusalem." Small leather corners and brown marbled boards. Leather somewhat dry and scuffed, some gilt scuffed away. Interior has some occasional foxing, damp staining to the Fall of Jerusalem, oxidation on the end papers where the leather was glued , binding is very sturdy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Leaf and Stone Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 ¾ in. x 8 7/8 in. Blank flyleaf; half-title page; title page; dedication page; advertisement page. [1]-54 pp. [55]-56 (2-page advertisement for Scott's works.) 4 pp. advertisements for Scott's edition of Swift's works and for the Encyclopedia Britannica. The Sasse prints Proposal leaf is not present in this copy. The ads are dated Sept. 1815. Final blank flyleaf. Grey paper wrappers over a thicker white paper, sewn. The wrappers show chipping to the paper on the spine, wear to the edges, and a possible repair with a strip of matching grey paper to the back paper wrapper. Some age-related tanning to the half-title, title page, and advertisements. A little light tan-spotting to the text pages. With the bookplate of Cleveland, Ohio based book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951), on the inner front wrapper. Preserved in a dark brown, crushed morocco leather-covered, top-opening, book-shaped, solander case with five raised bands, gilt titling & gilt decoration on the spine; with a dark green, watered silk, wraparound chemise, with gold-lettered titling. The solander case shows fading to the leather spine & edges, light wear to the inner portion of the case. Todd & Bowden 84Aa.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.