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[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Collection of Bannatyne Club Garlands and related publications
£2,268
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
including:
a) Garlands 1-10, bound in one volume (8vo, later green half morocco), comprising: 1) A Bannatyne Garland, quhairin the President Speaketh; 2) The Bannatyne Garland. Number Second; 3) Ane Right pithie and pleasant Ballat of Bannatyne; 4) A Bannatyne Garland, 23rd November, 1824; 5) Ane Bannatyne Garlande, brevit be Maister Patrick, of the Kingis Chekar, 1826; 6) A New Bannatyne Garland; compylit be Doctor Jehan of the Hall Ryal, 1828; 7) Ane New Bannatyne Garland, 1829; 8) Ane Merie Conceittit Geste, ryght iocund and ioyous (2 copies, one apparently a proof copy); 9) Two Bannatyne Garlands from Abbotsford, 1848; 10) Tears on the Death of Evander, 1848. With a copy of The Poems of George Bannatyne MDLXVIII, 1835 (not a Garland) bound in at rear.
b) Additional copies of Garlands number 4 (wrappers), 5 (wrappers), 6 (wrappers), 7 (wrappers), and The Poems of George Bannatyne (marbled boards, bookplate of the Honourable William Carmichaell Esqr, book-label of J. L. Weir, contemporary annotation '40 copies printed' to initial blank);
c) [Volume of Bannatyne Club Catalogues and Rules], 1830-54 (9 works in one volume, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, including Rules, 1823, printed on vellum, 7 pp., annotated in pencil 'one of three copies printed on vellum'); Rules of the Bannatyne Club, 1823 (2 copies, in wrappers and disbound); Catalogue of the Bannatyne Club publications, 1846 (marbled card wrappers).
d) Folder of printed ephemera relating to the Bannatyne Club, including an autograph letter from Club secretary David Laing, dated 1830;
e) Various related material:
i) Supplemental Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals ... by Henry Laing [see number 91]. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1866. 4to, original cloth, plates
ii) Notices relative to the Bannatyne Club ... including Critiques on some of its Publications. Edinburgh: for private circulation, 1836. One of 50 copies only, 4to, original cloth, book-label of J. L. Weir;
iii) Bannatyne Club. Abstract of the Treasurer's Accounts. M.D.CCC.XXII.-M.D.CCC.XXVIII., 1828. 4to, original quarter morocco;
iv) The Bannatyne Manuscript compiled by George Bannatyne, 1568. [Glasgow]: for the Hunterian Club, 1873-94. 3 volumes, 4to, contemporary half morocco by W. J. Askew of Plymouth;
v) The Bannatyne Manuscript ... edited and Introduced by W. Tod Ritchie, 1934. 4 volumes, 8vo, original quarter skiver;
vi) Correspondence of Sir Robert Kerr, first Earl of Ancram, and his Son, William, Third Earl of Lothian, 1875. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth;
vii) Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Parish Churches of Scotland. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1866-71. 6 volumes, 4to, original cloth, volume 1 spine defective;
viii) The Buik of the Howlat. Edited by David Donaldson. Paisley: Alexander Gardner [for the New Club], 1882. One of 86 copies signed by the printer, 4to, original quarter cloth
Footnote
Note:
'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', The Review of English Studies, volume 67, issue 281, September 2016, pp. 732–750).
Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.