Galt, John
Works
£1,386
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
First edition, each in 3 volumes, 8vo, uniform contemporary half-calf, titles grouped by publisher:
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1822-34. Sir Andrew Wylie, of That Ilk; The Entail: or The Lairds of Grippy. The Literary Life, and Miscellanies;
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1823-1824. Ringhan Gilhaize; Or the Covenanters; Rothelan; The Spaewife; A Tale of The Scottish Chronicles. A Romance of the English Histories;
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830- [1831?]. Lawrie Todd; or, The Settlers in the Woods; Bogle Corbet; or The Emigrants;
London: Cochrane and M'Crone, 1833. Stories of the Study;
London: Richard Bentley, 1833. Eben Erskine; or The Traveller. First edition in 2 volumes, 8vo, uniform contemporary half-calf as above;
George the Third, His Court and Family. London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1821; The Lives of the Players. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830; The Autobiography of John Galt. London: Cochrane and M'Crone, 1833.
Together with the following first edition single-volume titles, uniform bindings as above:
Annals of the Parish. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1821; The Provost. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1822; The Steam Boat. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1822; The Bachelor's Wife. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1824; The Omen. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1825; The Last of the Lairds. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1826; The Life of Lord Byron. London: Colburn and Bentley, 1830; The Radical: An Autobiography. London: James Fraser, 1832; The Stolen Child. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1833. Forty Years' Residence in America. London: James Fraser, 1834;
Idem. The Tragedies of Maddalen, Agamemnon, Lady Macbeth, Antonia & Clytemnestra. London: for Cadell and Davies, 1812. 8vo, contemporary brown cloth, 25 x 16cm; The Ayrshire Legatees: or, The Pringle Family. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1823. Second edition (49)
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.