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

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Hogg James [The Ettrick Shepherd]. The Mountain Bard: Consisting of Ballads and Songs Founded on Facts and Legendary Tales. Edinburgh & London: Arch Constable & Co and John Murray, 1807. First Edition. Half Calf and Marbled Boards. Good. 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.