Lot 153
Estimate: £400 - £600
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount. Lyon King of Arms, 1542. Edited by David Laing. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1878. One of apparently 2 copies printed on vellum, folio (33.6 x 22cm), contemporary red morocco gilt by Andrew Grieve of Edinburgh, inner dentelles gilt, vellum doublures, top edge gilt, chromolithographic title-page, [2] 21 pp. printed introductory text, 144 leaves of chromolithographic manuscript facsimiles (printed on rectos only, numbered 1-133, leaves 57, 77, 100, 101, 126, 127, 128 and 129 each with a bis leaf), joints and extremities rubbed
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Second edition (first published in 1822). According to a 20th-century century bookseller's catalogue description mounted to the front doublure, presumably referring to this copy, ‘only two copies were printed on vellum’; there were also 250 standard copies and 50 copies on large paper.