Minstrelsy : Ancient and Modern, with an Historical Introduction and Notes.

MOTHERWELL, William:

Edité par Glasgow: John Wylie, First edition, Glasgow, 1827

A propos de cet article

8vo., cvi, 390 pages + xxiv appendix + 1 errata, finely engraved additional title page & engraved appendix title, finely engraved plate and armorial plate together with 9 pages of notated music at rear of appendix, marbled endpapers, all edges blocked in gilt, bound in contemporary full morocco with triple-ruled outer borders, fine ornately decorated spine in compartments with raised bands (sunned on spine but unaffecting gilt lettering or decoration) with fine gilt decorated inner dentelles. A VG clean tightly bound copy in a handsome binding with some light minor wear to upper joint. of this scarce collection complete with all the plates. Loosely inserted is a nineteeth century letter from Hugh Hopkins, the famous Glasgow bookseller to a Rev. Buckley in Banbury relating to this work by William Motherwell which was originally published in parts and that many copies were wanting plates. Ex Libris Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), English classical scholar and clergyman. He served as Dean of Christ Church, Oxford from 1831 until his death. with his fine engraved bookplate to upper pastedown. William Motherwell (1797-1835), journalist, poet, man-of-letters, wit, civil servant, and outspoken conservative, published his anthology of ballads, Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern, in 1827. Published after the death of Burns and the publication of Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, ballads such as those Motherwell collected were one focus of a loose-knit movement that might be designated, cultural nationalism. This interest in preserving relics that suggested a distinctly Scottish culture and nation was one response to the union of the Scottish and English Parliaments in 1707.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Minstrelsy : Ancient and Modern, with an Historical Introduction and Notes.
• Éditeur: Glasgow: John Wylie, First edition, Glasgow
• Date de parution: 1827
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale, Édition illustrée
• Impression: 1er tirage
• État de l'article: Assez bon
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature
  • Fine Bindings
  • Antiquarian Poetry
  • Scotland
  • Poetry