The Mountain Bard: Consisting of Ballads and Songs Founded on Facts and Legendary Tales

£145.00

Hogg James [The Ettrick Shepherd]

Arch Constable & Co and John Murray, Half Calf and Marbled Boards, Good

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AB117937, Hogg James [The Ettrick Shepherd], The Mountain Bard: Consisting of Ballads and Songs Founded on Facts and Legendary Tales, Edinburgh & London, 1807, Arch Constable & Co and John Murray, First Edition, Half Calf and Marbled Boards, Good, 8vo, xxxi, 201pp. Spine divided into five compartments; lined, rolled & stamped with gilt decorations. Black morocco label lettered in gilt. Lightly wormed long ago with residual evidence mostly in pastedowns & front gutter apart from four entry & exit holes at edge of spine & two single holes in the fore corners at the rear of the book penetrating for 10 & 30pp respectively. Despite all of which still an attractively bound first edition of this collection.

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Publisher Place

Publisher Year

Edition

First Edition

Size

8vo

Binding Type

Half Calf and Marbled Boards

Book Condition

Good

Language

English