MARTIN, Theodore, Sir.

Horace and his Friends. Two Lectures delivered at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution …

Printed for private Circulation. 1881.

First editions of two privately-printed pamphlets by the poet, translator and biographer Theodore Martin (1816–1909) – presentation copies, to the Scottish journalist John Skelton, a frequent contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine (as was Martin).

£400

PATON, Joseph Noel, Sir.

Address read at the Delivery of the Prizes to the Students of the School of the Honourable the...

[London, Clay & Sons, 1875].

Presentation copies of two very rare academic addresses, that by Sir Noel Paton (one of 20 copies printed according to a note on the title-page) inscribed ‘John Skelton Esq., with N.P.’s kindest regards’, the Tulloch with a slip inscribed ‘From the Author’ tipped in.

£350

SPOTISWOOD, John.

An Introduction to the Knowledge of the Stile of Writs, Simple and Compound, made Use of in Scotland ... The...

Edinburgh: William Brown and John Mosman, and sold by William Brown, 1727.

Third edition, annotated by Neil Ballingall (1750–1843), factor to the Balfour family at Balbirnie, Fife.

£500

[WALKER, Patrick.]

Some remarkable Passages of the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden, late Minister of the Gospel at Glenluce...

Glasgow: J. and M. Robertson, 1794.

Very rare chapbook life of the Covenanter Alexander Peden (1626–1686), first published 1724 and much reprinted; the ‘second part’ first appeared in an edition of 1778.

£225

[WISHART, George.]

I. G. de rebus auspiciis serenssimi, & potentissimi Caroli Dei gratia Magnae Brittanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae...

[Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.

First edition, rare, a fine paper copy in a handsome binding, of an account of the campaign of James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, against the Covenanters in 1644−46.

£1750

[MACKY, John.]

A Journey through England. In familiar Letters from a Gentleman here, to his Friend abroad … The Second Edition,...

London: Printed for J. Hooke … 1722.

Second edition of Vol. I, more than a hundred pages longer than the edition of 1714 and long delayed because ‘immediately after the Publication …. Queen Anne’s Death, and King George’s Accession to the Throne, took up so much of the Attention of Mankind, that the Author could...

£950

ANNAN, James Craig, photographer.

Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, Works of Art, and Decorative Objects, the Property of...

[London,] Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods …, 1882.

First edition of the sale catalogue for the Hamilton Palace Collection, notable for its early and lavish use of photographic illustrations; the catalogue was also available without illustrations (at 5s – the illustrated set cost 21s), a copy of which is also offered here.

£600

ANNAN, Thomas.

Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow.

Glasgow, T. Annan Photographer; J. Maclehose, Publisher and Bookseller to the University, 1871

A very good copy illustrated with albumen rather than carbon prints.

£3450

[BURNS, Robert.] BRIGHT, Henry A[rthur].

Some Account of the Glenriddell MSS. of Burns’s Poems: with several Poems never before...

Liverpool, Gilbert G. Walmsley …, 1874.

First edition, scarce, a presentation copy: a privately-printed catalogue of the famous Glenriddell manuscripts; Burns’s preface and several poems are printed here for the first time.

£100

DAVIDSON, John.

Smith: a Tragedy.

Glasgow, Frederick W. Wilson and Brother, 1888.

First edition of a rare foray into drama by a Scottish poet who influenced T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens. John Davidson (1857-1909) was highly regarded during his lifetime by writers like W.B. Yeats, and later by Eliot, Stevens, and Aldous Huxley. Along with Yeats, Ernest Dowson, and others,...

£300

SMOLLETT, Tobias.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker … The second Edition …

London, Printed for W. Johnston … and B. Collins … 1771.

Second edition of Smollett’s acknowledged masterpiece, printed in the same year as the first. The story describes, in epistolary form, the journey of the Matthew Bramble, a hypochondriac Scot, and his family round Britain in search of a cure for his various ailments. The titular Humphry Clinker...

£275

HOGG, James.

The Pilgrims of the Sun; a Poem …

London, Printed for John Murray … and William Blackwood … Edinburgh, 1815.

First edition, first issue, of a long poem dedicated to Byron ‘Not for thy crabbed state-creed, wayward wight, / Thy noble lineage, nor they virtues high’, but for ‘thy bold and native energy’. The titular poem is the narrative of a young local woman Mary Lee, and her journey to a heavenly...

£200

HEWIT, Alexander.

Poems on various Subjects, (English and Scotch,) …

Berwick-upon-Tweed, Printed for the Author, by W. Lochhead [1823.]

First edition, scarce, possibly the dedication copy though subsequently defaced, of this collection of poems by ‘The Berwickshire Ploughman’.

£250

[JOHNSON, Samuel].

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell … 1775.

London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell … 1775

Unacknowledged second edition. Two thousand copies of the first edition were printed as far as sheet R when Strahan, sensing the demand, decided to increase the press run to four thousand. The 2000 overrun sheets, T-Z and 2A-2B, and a reprint of the earlier sheets A-D and F-R, may be identified...

£350

KELLY, James.

Poems.

Glasgow, Printed by Aird & Coghill, and sold by John Menzies & Co, 1888.

First edition, a presentation copy, of a collection of poems many of which were written ‘before the age of nineteen’. There are a number of sonnets, as well as devotional and nature poetry, some folksongs, and topographical works on e.g. the Isle of Arran.

£100