Lot 103
Scottish poetry
Collection of works, 19th-century, finely bound
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Burns, Robert. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. To which are added, Several other Pieces, not contained in any Former Edition of his Poems, and a Life of the Author. Glasgow: Chapman and Lang, 1801. First Glasgow edition, 12mo (16.9 x 9.8cm), c.1900 maroon half morocco, richly gilt spine, top edge gilt, xii 360 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, folding aquatint plate;
Dunbar, William. The Poems of William Dunbar, now first collected. With Notes, and a Memoir of his Life. By David Laing. Edinburgh: for Laing and Forbes, 1834. First collected edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, later red morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow;
Tannahill, Robert. The Soldier's Return; a Scottish Interlude in Two Acts: with Other Poems and Songs, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Paisley: Stephen Young, 1807. First edition, small 8vo in half-sheets, 175 pp., 20th-century marbled calf by Zaehnsdorf;
Laing, David (editor). Various Pieces of Fugitive Scotish [sic] Poetry; principally of the Seventeenth Century. Edinburgh: for W. & D. Laing, 1825-53. First edition, volume 1 one of 72 copies printed and inscribed ‘To William Motherwell Esqre, Paisley (from the Editor)' on the half-title (limitation of volume 2 not stated), 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century green crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, spines slightly faded;
Idem. Early Metrical Tales; including the History of Sir Egeir, Sir Gryme, and Sir Gray-Steill. Edinburgh: for W. & D. Laing, 1826. First edition, 8vo, c.1900 red crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, top edge gilt, bottom edges untrimmed;
Scott, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Scott from George Bannatyne's Manuscript compiled A.D. 1658. Glasgow: printed for private circulation, 1882. First edition, one of 50 copies only, 8vo, c.1900 red crushed morocco by Riviere & Son for Pickering & Co., spine richly gilt in compartments, French fillet frames gilt to covers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed
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Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Footnote
William Motherwell, recipient of this copy of Laing's Fugitive Scotish Poetry, was a Glasgow-born poet and editor who lived and worked chiefly in Paisley.
