Scottish Song and Poetry
3 volumes, including 2 volumes published by Brash & Reid
£303
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Elegiac Stanzas; The Freebooter; The Lamentation of Mary Queen of Scotland; The Emigrant by the Hon. Henry Erskine; Description of a Battle by Robert Brown; Verses to the Memory of James Thomson; The Choice of a Wife; The Ewie wi' the Crooked Horn; The Contented Old Couple; Lizy Liberty; Peace and Home preferred to War and Travel; The Peasant of Auburn; Marriage. A warning Poem; Mary, an Original Poem; Sir James the Ross; The Celebrated Ballad of William and Margaret; Invocation to Melpomene; Winifrida, a Song; Tullochgorum and John O' Badenyon; Bad Company, or the Magpye; The Gipsy Lass, a Ballad; The Har'st Kirn; The Tooth-ache a Poem by Robert Burns, all 8pp., 12mo, contemporary calf, with volume number '2' on spine, lacks engraved and printed title;
Brash & Reid. Poetry, original and selected. Glasgow: Brash & Reid, [n.d.], 12mo, additional engraved title, 24 items in the volume, with Contents for volumes 3 and 4 bound in at end, contemporary calf, rubbed;
The Caledonian Musical Museum or Complete Vocal Library of the Best Scotch Songs. London: J. Dick, 1809, frontispiece, folding facsimile; bound with
The Union Imperial Song Book. Edinburgh: A. Hogg, 1815;
The Banquet of Euphrosyne. Hawick: R. Armstrong, 1811. 12mo, engraved frontispiece, very slight worming to a few leaves not affecting text, contemporary half calf, occasional slight dampstaining; sold not subject to return
Footnote
Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.