Scottish literature
Collection of works, finely bound
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Including: Burns, Robert. The Works. With his Life, by Allan Cunningham. London: James Cochrane and Co., 1834. 8 volumes, 8vo, c.1900 blue half morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title-page to each volume;
Ritson, Joseph. Ritson's Scottish Songs. London: J. Johnson, 1714 [i.e. 1794]. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, c.1900 tan calf gilt, half-titles, engraved vignettes to title-pages, bookplates, ownership ink-stamp of one Alexander Gardyne dated 1883 to verso of volume 1 title-page;
Gilchrist, John. A Collection of Ancient and Modern Scottish Ballads, Tales, and Songs. Edinburgh: for William Blackwood, 1815. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, bookplates of Hugh, Earl of Eglinton;
Leyden, John. Scenes of Infancy: descriptive of Teviotdale. Edinburgh: for Longman [etc.], 1811. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, joints superficially cracked, loss to head of spine, bookplate;
Dunbar, William. The Poems. Now first collected, with Notes, and a Memoir of his Life. By David Laing. Edinburgh: for Laing and Forbes, 1834. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, red morocco gilt, all edges gilt;
Motherwell, William (editor). Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern. Glasgow: John Wylie, 1827. First edition, 4to, 20th-century green morocco;
Sibbald, James. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry. Edinburgh: for J. Sibbald, 1802. First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, near-contemporary tree calf gilt;
and 14 others similar (the lot not fully collated) (37)
Provenance
From the library at Park House, Inverkeithing.