Fore-Edge Views of Scotland
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet
Edinburgh: Arch. Constable, 1821. Fore-Edge Views of Scotland. Each volume with a fine early fore-edge painting of a.... Read More
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La Porte de Malétroit.
Cagne-sur-Mer, France: The L-D Allen Press, 1952. One of 300 copies. Read More
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Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. Paton, Noel & Walter. Later edition (First was 1849). Read More
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First Edition, In Full Calf Binding
The Little Minister.
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. First edition in book form, with half-titles and 16 pages of publishers' ads, on the first page of which is "5G.9.91" First Edition, In Full Calf Binding. Barrie's sentimental tale of the young Scottish preacher who marries, loses, and regains his gypsy bride, this... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed ("J.M. Barrie") to S. Gilbert.
Vaynol, Bangor, North Wales: 26 August [n.y.]. Barrie writes to one S. Gilbert to decline an invitation: "Dear Sir, I thank you for your kind invitation to see the film this Tuesday, however I am away. I am sorry I will not be able to be present. Yours sincerely J.M.... Read More
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Scoticisms, arranged in Alphabetical Order, designed to correct improprieties of speech and writing.
Edinburgh: for William Creech & T. Cadell, London, 1787. First edition. An attractive copy of this interesting work: “The book is well wrote” (p.104) and was discussed by Beattie with Samuel Johnson (p.105 “The Scots have been accused of misapplying the active verb, To want … I mentioned this to... Read More
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belle Lettres.
Brooklyn, New York: Printed by Thomas Kirk, Sands-street, 1807. Fourth American Edition from the ninth and last London edition. Balir was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Here offered in edition by the first Brooklyn Printer of his lectures while he was the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Read More
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Autograph Letter, signed (“Claud I. Boswell, Sheriff of Fife”), to First Viscount Melville Hanry Dundas.
County Fife, Scotland: November 2, 1795. [With:] HORSBRUGH, Thomas, Deputy sheriff clerk. Autograph Letter, signed (“Thos. Horsbrugh”), to Claud I Boswell. Cupar, Scotland: 24 October 1795. 4to (10 x 15 3/4 inches; 250 x 400 mm. across the fold). 3 1/4 pp. Usual fold lines. A very good copy. Torrential... Read More
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An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.
London: Foulis for E. and C. Dilly, 1768. First edition, with cancels at E2 & Z3. First edition in contemporary binding of Boswell's first major work — an account of his trip to Corsica and his meeting with General Pasquale Paoli, leader of the Corsican independence movement. "With its reports... Read More
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Some Eighteenth Century Byways and other essays.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1908. First edition, variant binding, without ads. Interesting collection of Buchan’s early literary journalism, with emphasis on Scottish themes, including Prince Charles Edward and the Jacobite cause. Read More
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The Complete Works of.
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co, 1886. Edition de Luxe. One of 1000 numbered sets. Read More
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The Life and Works of … edited by Robert Chambers. Revised by William Wallace.
Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1896. Read More
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The Works ... Including His Letters to Clarinda, and the Whole of His Suppressed Poems: With an Essay on His...
London: printed for the editor by Richards and Co, 1821. Read More
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The Works of Robert Burns. edited by The Ettrick Shepard, and William Motherwell.
London and Edinburgh: A. Fukkarton and Co, nd. Read More
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The Works of … with an Account of His Life … as Edited by James Currie, M.D.
London: Printed for Willaim Allason, No. 31, New Bond Street and J. Maynard, Fanton Street, Haymarket, 1819. “A New Edition”. An attractive set of Burns works in an American acid-stained binding. Read More
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The Works of...with an Account of His Life.
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1809. Sixth Edition. Read More
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The Cotter's Saturday Night.
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1915. One of 475 copies printed on japan Vellum paper. Read More
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![[Literary Remains. Collection of manuscript Drinking Songs, Poems, and late fragments]. Alexander Campbell.](/pictures/thumb/305557.jpg?v=1495471488)
[Literary Remains. Collection of manuscript Drinking Songs, Poems, and late fragments].
[Edinburgh, etc: 1815-1823]. Alexander Campbell (1764–1824), composer and writer, published several collections of Scottish songs, and while a teacher in Edinburgh “gave lessons in harpsichord and singing. Among his pupils were Walter Scott and his brothers, but the lads had no taste for the subject and the master had no... Read More
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![Autograph letter signed "T. Campbell" to Mrs. [John] Hughes, accepting her invitation to breakfast. Thomas Campbell.](/pictures/thumb/217156.jpg?v=1447132459)
Thomas Campbell: "a prim pure presbyterian poetaster"
Autograph letter signed "T. Campbell" to Mrs. [John] Hughes, accepting her invitation to breakfast.
[London], Middle Scotland Yard Whitehall: 19 March , n.y.[after 1822]. Thomas Campbell: "a prim pure presbyterian poetaster" A witty acceptance letter to the mother of Thomas Hughes (author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS), from the Scottish poet Campbell (1777-1844), author of THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. Accepting the invitation to breakfast... Read More
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Scraps from a Pedlar’s Wallet. Being Original Sonnets, Songs, Etc.
Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier, 1883. First edition. Read More
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Cosietattle and Other Poems.
Liverpool: Printed and Published by the Author, 1888. First edition. Read More
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Illustrations to the Poetical and Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart...from Drawings by George Cattermole, Esqre.
London: Published for the Proprietors by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, Paternoster Row, nd. Read More
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces , Historical and Biographical by.
London: Printed for J. Johnson et al [by J. Woodfall, Printer, Paternoster-row], 1808. Read More
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The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction from the earliest Greek...
Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, 1816. Second Edition. Read More
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