Lot 131
Bannatyne Club
The Bannatyne Garlands
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
Edinburgh: [Bannatyne Club, [1823-48]. 11 works in 1 volume, 8vo (19.7 x 12cm), comprising [i] The Poems of George Bannatyne [edited with an extensive commentary by David Laing], 1824 [Note: Terry 4a]; [ii] A Bannatyne garland, quhairin the president speaketh [by Sir Walter Scott], [1823] [Note: Terry 118.1]; [iii] The Bannatyne garland, number second [by Patrick Fraser Tytler], [1823] [Note: Terry 118.2]; [iv] Ane richt pithie and pleasant ballat of Bannatyne, 1824 [Note: Terry 118.3]; [v] A Bannatyne garland [by Patrick Fraser Tytler], 1824 [Note: Terry 118/4]; [vi] Ane Bannatyne Garlande, brevit be Maister Patrick, of the Kingis Chekar [by Patrick Fraser Tytler], [1826 Note: Terry 118.5]; [vii] A new Bannatyne garland; compylit be Doctor Jehan of the Hall Ryal, [by Dr. John Jamieson], 1829; [viii] Ane new Bannatyne garland [by Patrick Fraser Tytler], 1829 [Note: Terry 118.7]; [ix] Ane plesand garland, being ane lytill and merrie conceited geste callit Ye coirne-clyppis ... [by Robert Pitcairn], [1830?] Note: [Terry 118.8]; [x] Two Bannatyne garlands from Abbotsford [by Sir Walter Scott], 1848 [Note: Terry 118.9] Presented by David Laing; [xi] Tears on the death of Evander Occasioned by the lamentable losse of the truelie noble Sir Iohn Svynton knight ... by G. Lauder, [1848], contemporary brown half morocco, the Marquesses of Lothian copy with the crested L[othian] at head of spine
Provenance
Marquesses of Lothian, then Newbattle Abbey College Trust.
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).