Lot 174
Scottish literature
Collection of works, 19th century
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
Burns, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Burns [The Centenary Burns]. Edinburgh: T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1896. Library edition of 600 copies for the UK and 150 for America, 4 volumes, 8vo (22 x 14cm), light blue morocco binding by Otto Schulze & Co. of Edinburgh, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, with thistle decorative tool on spine and turn-ins, fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed, top edge gilt, light sunning to spines;
Kay, James. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings with Biographical Sketches and Illustrative Anecdotes. Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1837-8. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (26.5 x 19cm), near-contemporary half calf, 357 etched plates (170 in volume 1, 159 in volume 2, and 28 in the separately-issued appendix at rear of volume 2), including Adam Smith, Francis Grose, John Wesley, Admiral Duncan, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Mirza Aboul Hassan Khan (Persian ambassador), Napoleon, Toussaint Louverture, etc. occasional light spotting and spotting, bookplates of Adam Sim of Coulter Mains (1805-1868)
[Stirling, William Macgregor]. Notes, Historical and Descriptive, on the Priory of Inchmahome. Edinburgh: printed by James Ballantyne & Co. for William Blackwood … and John Murray, London, 1815. First edition, 4to (28 x 21cm), presentation copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, 19th-century half calf binding, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, with 6 plates engraved by W. & D. Lizars, pp. 97-8 omitted in pagination but the work is complete, with bookplate of armorial book-plate of Sir T[homas] Dawson Brodie (1832-96), containing his signature, head and tail of spine and corner tips rubbed, title page lightly dust-soiled (7)