Scenes infancy descriptive teviotdale (4 Ergebnisse)

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

12mo, pp. [vi], 184; with a frontispiece and one other plate (at p. 94); uncut in the original boards, rebacked (a bit worn). First edition. This is the first major work of John Leyden (1775-1811), surgeon, linguist, poet and traveller, who is now best remembered as a close friend and collaborator of Walter Scott in compiling his Border Minstrelsy. Provenance. Early inscription on upper pastedown of Alexr. Henderson; small pasted-in inscription (at end) of Wm Macmath, 17 February 1913; and modern anonymous bookplate.…

FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp. [iv], 184 + frontispiece. Contemporary half red morocco, marbled boards, spine divided by gilt rules, second compartment lettered direct in gilt, other compartments tooled centrally in gilt. A little spotting, some offsetting to title-page. Rubbed, some wear to extremities. A few underlinings and brief marginal notes, bookplate removed from pastedown. The first edition of Leyden?s poem ?notable for combining nostalgia about Scotland's past with anxiety about its future? (ODNB). It also contains some Arthurian elements - in the years prior to its publication Leyden had been assisting Walter Scott?s gathering of folklore for Scott?s Border Minstrelsy of 1802, contributing poems and other material, which may have influenced this work?s mythic bent. …