Lot 88
[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Numbers 1-7 and 9-10 in the Bannatyne Club series
£605
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
all 4to, original half morocco, gilt spines, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, plates (including facsimiles of original documents and similar), many with name of original subscriber Robert Graham picked out in red in list of Bannatyne Club members, bindings rubbed, variable spotting and offsetting, titles comprising:
1) Vitae Dunkeldensis Ecclesiae Episcoporum ... ab Alexandro Myln ... Conscriptae, 1823. With 2 hand-coloured engraved plates of manuscript facsimile (heightened in gold), bookplate (Robert Maxtone Graham) [David Laing, The Bannatyne Club. Lists of Members and the Rules, with a Catalogue of the Books printed for the Bannatyne Club since its Institution in 1823, 1867, pp. 45-6]
1a) Vitae Dunkeldensis Ecclesiae Episcoporum ... editio altera, cui accedit appendix cum nominum et locorum indice, 1831. With 2 hand-coloured engraved plates of manuscript facsimile (heightened in gold), one further plate of manuscript facsimile [Laing p. 46];
1b) Comptum magistri fabrice pontis Dunkeldensis M.D.XIII-M.D.XVI, 1831. Separate edition of the appendix included in the second edition (above), one of 80 copies, one plate of manuscript facsimile [Laing, p. 46];
2) Poems by Sir David Murray of Gorthy, 1823. One of 72 copies, engraved title-page, facsimiles of original title-pages, relevant section and portrait from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front [Laing p. 46];
3) The Buke of the Howlat. By Holland, 1823. One of 70 copies, etched pictorial title-page (offset), relevant section and portrait from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front [Laing p. 47];
4) Tales of the Death of Alexander, Earle of Dunfermeling, Lord Chancellar of Scotland, 1823. One of 75 copies [Laing p. 47];
5) Discours particulier d'Escosse: escrit ... par Messires Jacques Makgill clerc du registre, et Jean Bellended clerc de la justice. XI Janvier M.D.LIX, 1824. One of 52 copies ('a similar number [were printed] on paper of a larger but inferior quality'), later typescript index bound in at rear [Laing pp. 47-8];
6) Robene and Makyne, and the Testament of Cresseid; by Robert Henryson, 1824. One of 65 copies, manuscript compliments slip tipped to front free endpaper [Laing pp. 47-8];
7) Report by Thomas Tucker upon the Settlement of the Revenues of Excise and Customs in Scotland A. D. MDCLVI. One of 72 copies [Laing p. 48]
9) Auld Robin Gray; a Ballad. By the Right Honourable Lady Anne Barnard, 1825. One of 65 copies, engraved frontispiece (offset) [Laing p. 49];
10) Recit de l'expedition en Ecosse l'an M.D.XLVI. et de la battayle de Muscleburgh par le sieur Berteville au roy Edouard IV, 1825. One of 72 copies, engraved folding plate (spotted) [Laing p. 49]
Footnote
Note: 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.
Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.
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