Lot 163
LITERATURE, A LARGE QUANTITY, INCLUDING
RAMSAY, ALLAN. THE GENTLE SHEPHERD. GLASGOW: A. FOULIS, 1788,
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
4to, frontispiece, plates by D. Allan, brown morocco gilt, slightly rubbed; Pope, A. The Works. Edinburgh, 1767. 6 volumes, 8vo, plates, contemporary calf, worn; Logan, Mr. Poems. 1781. First edition, 8vo, half-title, later half morocco; Sibbald, J. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry. Edinburgh, 1802. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, head of spines worn; Beattie, J. The Minstrel. Edinburgh, 1803. 4to, original boards, rebacked, some spotting & dampstaining, rebacked, worn; Scott, W. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. 1805. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt; Lyndsay, Sir D. The Poetical Works. 1806, 3 volumes, 8vo, green morocco, rubbed; Campbell, T. Gertrude of Wyoming. 1809. 4to, modern brown half morocco gilt; [Hill, Thomas] Marmion Travestied.. by Peter Pry. 1809. First edition, 8vo, original boards, uncut, rubbed; Byron, Lord English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. London: J. Cawthorn, 1810. Third edition, 8vo, original boards, uncut, rebacked; Lockhart, J.G. Ancient Spanish Ballads. 1823. 4to, engraved title, contemporary quarter morocco, worn; Knott, P. A Tale of the Plague. Glasgow, 1846. 8vo, presentation copy from the author, maroon morocco, rubbed; Hill, G.B. Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland). 1890. 4to, brown half morocco gilt, t.e.g.; Hardy, Thomas A Group of Noble Dames. 1891. First edition in book form. 8vo, original cloth; Cobden-Sanderson, T.J. Ecce Mundus. Industrial Ideals and the Book Beautiful. Hammersmith, 1902. 8vo, original quarter vellum; Mackail, J.W. William Morris, an Address. Hammersmith, 1905, 8vo, original quarter vellum; London, Jack John Barleycorn. New York: Century Co., 1913. First edition, 8vo, 3 blank leaves at end, inscribed "A.J. Balfour", original cloth; Tagore, R. The Post Office. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1914. Number 58 of 400 copies, original quarter cloth, binding discoloured; Brooke, Rupert The Old Vicarage, Grantchester. 1916. 8vo, original wrappers, a little spotted, short marginal tear to wrapper; Donne, J. Love Poems. Nonesuch Press, 1923, number 431 of 1250 copies, original quarter vellum; Burns, R. Poems. 1927. Facsimile of Kilmarnock edition, wrappers, slipcase; Milne, A.A. The Christopher Robin Birthday Book. 1930. 8vo, dustwrapper, a few birthdays recorded in ink, dustwrapper frayed with some loss to spine; Aldington, R. Stepping heavenward. Florence, 1931. 8vo, number 800 of 909 copies signed by the author, original quarter cloth, uncut; Norman, O. Sonnets. 1936. 8vo, number 75 of 300 copies, maroon morocco; Auden, W.H. Spain. 1937. 8vo, original pink wrappers, slightly faded, slightly discoloured; Musil, Robert The Man without Qualities. 1953-65. 3 volumes, 8vo, vol. 1-2 First editions, original cloth, dustwrappers; Aldiss, B.W. The Brightfount Diaries. 1955, dustwrapper; Rolfe, F.W. Without Prejudice. 1963. 8vo, limited to 600 copies, original boards, pink wraparound; De Quincey, T. The Works. Pickering & Chatto, 2000. 7 volumes, 8vo, original boards; and others, (a quantity)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of Larry Hutchison