Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
February 1882
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/31
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Emlyn (reprinted from the original editions), 4to. black letter, woodcuts, hf. bd. £3. 3s London, John Skot (cir. 1520), 1820 8113 8114 8115 8116 8117 8118 ~ 8119 8120 8121 8122 8123 8124 Bucuan (Peter) Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, hitherto unpublished, with notes, 2 vols. sm. 8vo. portrait, bds. 30s 3 Hdinburgh, 1828 CuamBers (Robert) Scottish Ballads, 1 vol.; Scottish Songs, 2 vols.; together 3 vols. post 8vo. calf gilt, 30s Hdinburgh, 1829 CunningHam (Allan) Sones of Scotland, ancient and modern, with introduction and notes, 4 vols. sm. 8vo. bds. £2. 2s 1825 Gincurist (John) Collection of Ancient and Modern Scottish Ballads, Tales, and Songs, with notes, 2 vols.sm. 8vo. bds. 24s Edinb. 1815 Herp (David) Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc.—a page for page reprint of the 1776 edition, with memoir by Sidney Gilpin, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 18s Hdinburgh, 1870 JAMIESON (Robert) Popular Ballads and Songs, from tradition, MSS. etc. with translations of similar pieces from Danish, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. calf, 18s Hdinb. 1806 LAING (D.) Select Remains of the early Popunar Ponrry of Scotland, complete, with the swppressed fourth leaf of ‘ane Ballat of Matrymonie,” sm. 4to. calf gilt, £6. Edinb. 1822 another copy, sm. 4to. with the fourth leaf of “ ane Ballat of Matrymonie,” half morocco, uncut, £7. 1822 the same, sm. 4to. with the suppressed leaves to ‘TALE or Ratr Cotyear,” im addetion to that mentioned above, cloth, presentation copy to Geo. Chalmers, £8. 8s Bae oy Only 108 copies printed, of which many were destroyed by fire. This is a curious collection of twenty-five poetical pieces, valuable philologically, and for their sketches of manners and customs. It includes the stories of True Thomas of Ercildoune, Orfeo and Heurodis, the Awntyrs of King Arthur, the Nine Worthies, etc. Montcomery (Alexander) Poems [edited by David Laing]: with biographical notices by David Irving, small 8vo. green morocco eatra, rough gilt edges, £3. 3s Hdinburgh, 1821 As the writer of the Cherry and the Slae, and ‘part author of the Flyting with Polwart, Montgomery is entitled to a place here. He is supposed to have died soon after 1605. [PINKERTON] Ancimnr Scortisn Porms, published from the MS. Collections of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington, with notes and glossary (by Pinkerton), 2 vols. 12mo. calf, 20s; or in old red morocco, 80s 1786 Published by the celebrated and quarrelsome John Pinkerton. The first three poems are: ‘‘ King Hart,” an allegorical poem by Gawin Douglas ; Dunbar’s Twa Mariit Women and the Wedo; and the tale of the Freirs of Berwik. A pLEAsant History or Roswatn anp Lintian (in Verse), Edinburgh, 1663, sm. 4to. edited by D. Laing, PRINTED ON VELLUM, half morocco, wnique, £5. 5s- : ~ (1822) A pleasant story in Scottish verse, of which no edition older than 1663 is known, although the book was probably written in the fifteenth century. Rt ee ey