LAING David, editor
£500
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Various pieces of fugitive Scotish [sic] poetry; principally of the seventeenth century ... Original paper boards, fore-edges uncut, 8vo., Edinburgh: for W. & D. Laing, 1825
Note: One of 72 copies
SCOTT Alexander
Poems from a manuscript written in the year 1568 ... Original quarter roan, paper boards, 8vo., [Edinburgh, 1821]
Note: A presentation copy from Laing to Robert Graeme of Redgorton
EARLY metrical tales; including the History of Sir Egeir, Sir Gryme, and Sir Gray-Steill ... Frontis., original paper boards, fore-edges uncut, lower inner joint splitting, 8vo., Edinburgh: W. & D. Laing, 1836
SELECT remains of the ancient popular poetry of Scotland ... Contemporary half roan, marbled boards, fore-edges uncut, small 4to., Edinburgh: W. & D. Laing, 1822 [5]
One of 108 copies, of which, according to Brunet, a number perished in a fire.
A PROOF with ms corrections of the poem "Tayis bank" from the above work with an accompanying letter to Robert Graham of Redgorton from David Laing tipped in at the front