king james scotland rev walter (3 résultats)

First Edition. Handsome volume in quarter leather with gilt titles on green cloth. Fold up map present and VG. Generally a VG condition copy, with just a few light foxing marks at prelims.\n.

Leather. Etat : Very Good Indeed. None (illustrateur). A smartly bound second edition copy of these two poems attributed to King James I of Scotland. Second and revised edition. The Scottish Text Society. With two folding facsimile plates. Collated complete. Two poems attributed to James I, the King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437. Containing The Kingis Quair, a fifteenth-century Early Scots poem. Semi-autobiographical in nature, it describes the King's capture by the English in 1406 on his way to France and his subsequent imprisonment by Henry IV of England. With four versions of the Ballad of Good Counsel, from the earliest to the restored version, the latter being founded upon collation of the other three. Edited by Walter William Skeat, a British philologist and Anglican deacon. In the original quarter crushed morocco binding with green cloth boards. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed. book.

Leather. Etat : Fine. None (illustrateur). A smartly bound copy of these two poems attributed to King James I of Scotland. Scarce work. The Scottish Text Society. Two poems attributed to James I, King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437. Containing The Kingis Quair, a fifteenth-century Early Scots poem. Semi-autobiographical in nature, it describes the King's capture by the English in 1406 on his way to France and his subsequent imprisonment by Henry IV of England. With four versions of the Ballad of Good Counsel, from the earliest to the restored version, the latter being founded upon collation of the other three. Edited by Walter William Skeat, a British philologist and Anglican deacon. Previously held in the library of Sir Charles Bine Renshaw, a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician. Bound in half crushed morocco with marbled boards. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Fine. book.