•  NSTC 2P9592. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. (16785)

Scarce

•  Creased with slight soiling along crease, edges slightly ragged, otherwise in good condition; now in a Mylar folder. Tipped onto a blank leaf bearing a watermark of 1826.

ESTC describes only Scottish holdings of this item

•  ESTC T200651. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; in a Mylar folder. Darkened, last page with a short closed tear and with light-colored staining partially obscuring a few letters.

•  ESTC N9604. Period-style calf by Grace Bindings (signed in blind at inner area of lower rear turn-in), framed and panelled in blind rolls with blind-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and with gilt-stamped floral decorations. Pages age-toned and paper embrittled, with a very few small edge nicks; title-page with a short tear from lower margin into lower inner corner, not touching text. Clean, interesting.

•  ESTC T102145; Sabin 59081. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label.margins; some leaves lightly foxed, with final page darkened.

•  NSTC 2B38504.   Removed from a nonce volume. A few traces of very faint spots of foxing, else clean and fresh. (16824)

Provenance: The Rev. Edwin A. Dalrymple; the Maryland Diocesan Library.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 15224. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding moderately darkened and worn, cloth chipped over head of spine, spine showing shadow of a now-absent shelving label. Front pastedown with private collector’s bookplate and with institutional rubber-stamp (as above); title-page additionally with early inked gift inscription in upper margin (this cut into by binder). Some light spotting and age-toning.

•  Publisher's tan cloth, front cover stamped in black and white; binding a bit darkened overall, lacking dust wrapper. Top edges gilt.  (16736)

ESTC notes that one institution reports a frontispiece, but most other listings cite a preliminary leaf (not present here) rather than a plate. No, this does NOT photograph well! — but it is very interesting in the hand, under the eye.

•  ESTC T146717; Allibone 328.   19th-century half morocco and pebbled cloth–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; rubbed and sides sunned. Front pastedown with private collector's bookplate. Lacking one preliminary leaf; title-page partially separated, with faint pencilled annotation beneath author's name. Occasional light spotting, confined to inner and outer margins; one early inked annotation in the addenda to the first poem.  (24880)

Binding: 19th-century gold calf with covers framed in double gilt fillets, turn-ins gilt-stamped, marbled endpapers. Spines gilt-tooled and with gilt-stamped title and volume labels. All page edges gilt.

•  NSTC J236. Leather showing moderate acid-spotting, with some cracking over the spine (one label repaired). One leaf with short tear from bottom edge; pages with a very few scattered spots of foxing only. A very handsome set.

Scottish-born

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This is an uncut copy; uncut, however, though it may have been, this was carefully opened. It was read cover to cover!

•  American Imprints 2078; Howes S91; Sabin 36551.   Publisher's quarter brown cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; binding rubbed and moderately stained, with front hinge (inside) reinforced some time ago. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, frontispiece, title-page, and last page rubber-stamped. Inside the occasional spot or blot; page edges uncut.  (27106)

Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate “De la bibliotheque de F. Freudenreich.”

•  ESTC T48434; Alston, III, 308; Goldsmiths’-Kress 11089; Sabin 32702. Contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels, spines with gilt-stamped thistle decorations; edges and corners rubbed, sides showing small scrapes and discolorations. Residue on pastedowns from sometime removal of bookplates. Pages age-toned, with occasional small spots, and offsetting from binding to in margins of first and last few leaves. All edges speckled.

•  This ed. not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages age-toned, else clean. (16762)

This Stirling printing is rare. There is also a Glasgow printing of which OCLC locates only 6 copies worldwide.

•  Original self wrappers (unbound, removed). The bottom corner of the second leaf is lightly chipped and the pages are somewhat darkened. Good. (17552)

•  NSTC 2L15512.   Removed from a nonce volume. The upper edge of the title is closely cropped, just touching tops of letters; page edges a bit darkened. (16827)

•  NSTC 2M14137. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages clean. (16756)

•  NSTC 2W21326. Removed from a nonce volume. Slightly age-toned, with very faint staining to one leaf. (24437)

•  NSTC 2M6590; Goldsmiths’-Kress 21913. Recent paper-covered boards. Mild offsetting to pages and moderate foxing to first few leaves.

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•  NSTC 2E4287.   Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper outer corner.  (17041)

The front wrapper here features a color-printed image of a youngster in Highland regalia, proffering a dish of molded jelly.

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers with original hanging loop; front wrapper with light spotting, back wrapper with area of staining in lower outer portion. Pages slightly age-toned. Newspaper recipe clipping laid in. Recipe pages remarkably clean and nice.  (26083)