Bannatyne Club
Complete set of the Bannatyne Club Garlands
£1,386
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, [1823-48]. 11 works in 1 volume, 8vo, contemporary (possibly original) olive-green half morocco, contents comprise: 1) A Bannatyne Garland, quhairin the President Speaketh; 2) Ane Ballat, brevit be ane Learnit Councillar in the Kingis Chekar; 3) Ane richt pithie and pleasant Ballat of Bannatyne, eftir the maner of ane Garland, followis, jocund and mirrie, 1824; 4) A Bannatyne Garland, 1824; 5) Ane Bannatyne Garlande, brevit be Maister Patrick, of the Kings, 1826; 6) Ane plesand Garland, beand ane lytill and merie conceittit geste callit Ye Coirne-clyppis [the text present in two substantially different states as noted in other copies]; 7) A New Bannatyne Garland; compylit be Doctor Jehan of the Hall Ryal, 1828; 8) Ane New Bannatyne Garland, 1829; 9) Two Bannatyne Garlands from Abbotsford, 1848; 10) To my Brother Bannatynian Banqueters, this Little Tractate is with every Kind Sentiment Inscribed, 24 February 1848, W. B. D. D. T;
Together with 4 similar works, spine-titles reading: Bannatyne Club Catalogues 1830-1845; Bannatyne Club Rules 1823-1844; Bannatyne Club Albums 1825-1854; George Bannatyne's Poems 1568-1824 (5)
Provenance
1. George Stirling Home Drummond of Blair Drummond and Ardoch (1813-1872), Scottish landowner and antiquarian, with his bookplate to each work;
2. The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.
Footnote
The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club. 'The playful mode of identification with the past manifested in the Bannatyne [Club's] affiliation with George Bannatyne also finds expression in the Bannatyne Garlands, a series of ten occasional publications spanning 1823–48, printed in limited numbers of around forty copies each. Several Garlands mimic the appearance and language of early modern printed books' (Elliott, 'Walter Scott’s Bannatyne Club, Elite Male Associational Culture, and the Making of Identities', Review of English Studies, volume 67, issue 281, September 2016, pp. 732–750).