Lot 99

[Scottish antiquarianism] New Club

Set of large-paper copies

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT

£278

Description

6 works in 12 volumes, royal 4to (30.5 x 24.5cm), original olive-green half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, facsimile illustrations throughout, titles comprising:
Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew. By William Hamilton of Wishaw, 1878;
Cantus, Songs and Fancies, to Three, Four, of Five Parts, both Apt for Voices and Viols ... Reproduced by Photo-Lithography, 1879;
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ... by John Jamieson. A New Edition [-Supplement to Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary], 1879-87 (5 volumes);
The Buke of the Howlat, 1882;
The Black Book of Paisley and Other Manuscripts of the Scotichronicon, 1885;
Selections from the Family Papers preserved at Caldwell. Part First [...] Part II. Vol. I [...] Part II. Vol. II. 1883-3-5 (3 volumes)

Footnote

Note: Each one of 14 large-paper copies signed by the publisher; the total edition of each work comprised 100 copies only, of which the remaining 86 were on ordinary paper, in post-quarto format, and bound in quarter cloth.